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UK: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester First Edition John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd 1926. A fine copy. No inscriptions, clean throughout with no foxing to pages or edges. Top edge red tint still bold. Covers have no bumping or rubbing to corners. In original (and seldom seen) VG+ dust jacket which has very light creasing to top portion of front cover. No loss and no toning to spine. Priced at 7/6. A bright copy. For further images please see Brought to Book Ltd.

Payment Deferred is a crime novel by C. S. Forester, first published in 1926. It tells the story of a bank clerk who embezzles a large sum of money, then enters a suspenseful cat-and-mouse game with law enforcement and his own conscience.

The first edition can be identified by the publisher's name and the date 1926 on the title page.