Diment (Adam) The Bang Bang Birds
£95
London, Michael Joseph, 1968.
First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
The third of Diment’s spy novels featuring Philip McAlpine, whom critic Anthony Boucher described as “an agent who smokes hashish, leads a highly active sex life, kills vividly, uses (or even coins) the latest London slang and still seems a perfectly real (and even oddly likeable) young man rather than a reflected Bond image. The suitably sixties’ jacket artwork is by Bill Botten, known for his J.G. Ballard jackets.
Out of stock
Minor spotting to extremities; cloth very good; jacket a little chipped and spotted, spine slightly darkened.
Jacket artwork by Bill Botten.
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