1. Typed Manuscript with Annotations, 206 pp, 4to, [New York], April 30, 1965, being a double-spaced draft of the novel The Death Dealers, additionally annotated by a Dutton editor, stamped “Copy for the Press” to title-page, leaves thumbed, wear to edges, mild toning throughout. 2. Master galley proofs, 55 sheets, stamped May 13, 1965, annotated by Dutton editors, creasing, toning, and soiling. 3. Master page proofs, 62 sheets, stamped June 17, 1965, annotated by Dutton editors, creasing, toning, and soiling. Tiger confronts a beautiful Interpol spy who has been tailing him, learns that she has inherited a dangerous assignment and wants him to leave the private espionage agency funded by Martin Grady and work for the government. Tiger is soon confronting intrigue in the Middle East and finds himself caught between a gorgeous belly dancer and her husband. “When I turned my head I saw her … a wild, wanton, pagan nude, not oblivious to the presence of another in the room, but completely conscious of the fact, directing every essence of her nudity toward that one in a tantalizing manner as if an impenetrable wall of glass separated them so that she could taunt and torture with immunity, laying a feast of desire before a starving man who could see and smell and want, but couldn’t get through the barrier.”
1. Typed Manuscript with Annotations, 206 pp, 4to, [New York], April 30, 1965, being a double-spaced draft of the novel The Death Dealers, additionally annotated by a Dutton editor, stamped “Copy for the Press” to title-page, leaves thumbed, wear to edges, mild toning throughout. 2. Master galley proofs, 55 sheets, stamped May 13, 1965, annotated by Dutton editors, creasing, toning, and soiling. 3. Master page proofs, 62 sheets, stamped June 17, 1965, annotated by Dutton editors, creasing, toning, and soiling. Tiger confronts a beautiful Interpol spy who has been tailing him, learns that she has inherited a dangerous assignment and wants him to leave the private espionage agency funded by Martin Grady and work for the government. Tiger is soon confronting intrigue in the Middle East and finds himself caught between a gorgeous belly dancer and her husband. “When I turned my head I saw her … a wild, wanton, pagan nude, not oblivious to the presence of another in the room, but completely conscious of the fact, directing every essence of her nudity toward that one in a tantalizing manner as if an impenetrable wall of glass separated them so that she could taunt and torture with immunity, laying a feast of desire before a starving man who could see and smell and want, but couldn’t get through the barrier.”
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