Funeral in Berlin.    London: Jonathan Cape, [1964].

First edition.

Small octavo. [320] pp. Publisher’s full dark grey cloth, front cover stamped in blue and blind, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Jacket mildly browned, with some very minor edgewear, text block is foxed at edges. Still, a near fine copy. This book is very rare with an author’s inscription in the year of publication.

First edition of his third book, presentation copy, inscribed by him in green ink on the “by the same author” page, just opposite the title page: “with best wishes/Len Deighton/Nor[?] ’64.”

This book (subtitled “Secret File Number 3”) is the third book in the so-called “Unnamed Hero” series featuring the anonymous hero (called “Harry Palmer” and played by Michael Caine in the 1966 film) and concerns the defection of a Soviet scientist.

Len Deighton (born 1929) is a historian and cooking expert, as well as a famous spy novelist.

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