THE DOLLY, DOLLY SPY.
by Diment, Adam
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a very near fine dust jacket./very near fine
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Dutton,, 1967.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. The author's first novel, a cult classic now, which burst on the scene in the late 60s with a record high advance (for the time) when Diment was just 23, and with extravagant praise - this introduced Philip McAlpine, a less uptight Bond, a morally ambiguous spy who was no stranger to drugs and who embraced the permissive society. Ian Fleming had died a couple of years earlier, the Bond movies were big hits, LeCarre had begun publishing his Smiley novels and the book trade was eager to capitalize on the spy market - and this book delivered. An early review said it had "modernity, sex appeal, enormous speed, cheekiness, high-tension, some four-lettered words and great originality." Diment himself was part of the appeal - the back cover of the dust jacket features a photograph of him, smiling broadly beneath his blond mop-top, grooving down the Kings Road flanked by two miniskirted women. 187 pp.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83817
- Title
- THE DOLLY, DOLLY SPY.
- Author
- Diment, Adam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- very near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dutton,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1967.
- Keywords
- first novel, first in series, 60s fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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