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Diment (Adam) The Great Spy Race
£95
London, Michael Joseph, 1968.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
The second 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 jacket artwork seemingly takes inspiration from Richard Chopping’s James Bond jackets.
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A very good copy; jacket with some damage around head of spine, but otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by Broom Lynne.
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