Len Deighton's London Dossier

DEIGHTON, Len (born 1929)

Published by London: Jonathan Cape, 1967

About this Item

[Counter-culture] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.328. Publisher's pictorial lime-green softcovers. Contents clean, brown spot to top edge, some toning to extremities of covers, spine wrinkled. A very good copy. In our experience, this is one of the most elusive Deighton proofs. Amusing guide to swinging London; where to get a sixpenny shave at two in the morning; where to buy snake steaks, where to hire a barrel organ and where to find the nearest nudist colony. Only 5600 copies of the hardcover were published, the proof print run would have been a fraction of this. Scarce. In the 60's, Len Deighton was the chief rival of fellow Cape-published spy writer Ian Fleming, who had championed his first novel 'The Ipcress File'. From the comprehensive Fleming bibliographical archive assembled by bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership. Book Collector No.287 (pp.32-62) 'The Sixties'. Milward-Oliver; Len Deighton Annotated Bibliography p.29. Gilbert: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.632. Seller Inventory # 65100

Bibliographic Details

Title: Len Deighton's London Dossier

Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1967

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition