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First edition, first impression, of the author's classic thriller set in Fascist Italy, scarce in the dust jacket. This copy is from the collection of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (1941-2021), with his posthumous bookplate. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, blue endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine slightly sunned and bumped, gutter cracked between a couple of gatherings, but sound, contents clean; dust jacket lightly soiled, but bright, extremities chipped, closed tear to rear panel, flaps without price as issued: a very good copy in very good jacket. .