Apr 08, 2010 - Sale 2209

Sale 2209 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
DEIGHTON'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED TO PENZLER DEIGHTON, LEN. The Ipcress File. 8vo, gilt-lettered orange cloth; few speckles of foxing to edges; dust jacket, minor soiling along edges and some light overall surface wear, still crisp and bright. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1962)

Additional Details

first edition of deighton's first work. inscribed and signed to penzler in 1986, on title-page. The first Harry Palmer novel and the beginning of a long and prolific career.
with--a copy of the First American Edition. 8vo, orange-lettered black cloth; crisp dust jacket. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.