War, Invasion & Spy
£75
New York, Dutton, 1967.
First US edition. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced $3.95.
The first US edition of the first 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.