Close Up

Deighton, Len

ISBN 10: 0224006959 / ISBN 13: 9780224006958

Published by Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square London, 1972

About this Item

1972 First Edition. Size Octavo, 8.75" X 5.25", 381 Pages. Black Hard Cover With Silver Titles To The Spine, Black End-Papers, Red Top Page Edge. Dust Jacket Designed By Raymond Hawkey. Book Condition Near Fine, Corners Very Slightly Rubbed, Top Page Edge Has Faded From Red To Pink, Else Fine, Contents Are Very Clean Throughout, No Marks Or Inscriptions. Dust Jacket Condition Very Good, Top Edge Of Spine And Bottom Edge Slightly Creased, Front Panel And Spine Have Faded Over Time And Where Deighton's Name Should Be Red It Is Now A Pink Colour, Price-Clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Close Up
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square London
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224006959
• ISBN 13: 9780224006958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

Physical description: 381p. Subjects: Motion picture industry in literature. Fiction in English, 1900.

Review

‘Immense skill... a stylish and stimulating performance’ The Times

‘The richness, the sardonic humour, the wheeling and dealing world of the films with its parties, its highly coloured characters... The power of the book is undoubted’ The Standard

‘The film industrry is in many ways the ideal subject for Mr Deighton’s talents’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Deighton’s greatest novel, and I haven’t forgotten his epic Bomber. If Deighton never puts pen to paper again, his place is secure among the world’s top ten modern novelists.’ Whitefriar