tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post5126644489046158253..comments2024-03-25T11:29:25.356-04:00Comments on Existential Ennui: From the Lewes Book Fair: Billion-Dollar Brain (Secret File #4) by Len Deighton (Jonathan Cape First Edition, 1966, Raymond Hawkey Cover)Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-43367836210579131212011-05-06T06:53:32.954-04:002011-05-06T06:53:32.954-04:00And thank you for the kind words, Rob. And for the...And thank you for the kind words, Rob. And for the additional info about An Expensive Place to Die and especially Billion-Dollar Brain – fascinating to read about the photo session for the jacket, and indeed the printing process!Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-35778769089572251732011-05-06T05:39:54.095-04:002011-05-06T05:39:54.095-04:00You know, the Honeywell data sheets on the endpape...You know, the Honeywell data sheets on the endpapers of the novel are genuine. I was fortunate enough to have lunch with Len Deighton recently, and he confirmed that the endpapers are genuine.<br /><br />The photoshoot for the front cover was done at Honeywell's data centre in London (I think he mentioned Feltham). He, Hawkey and the photographer Ken Denyer did the shoot in a day in front of actual Honeywell computers, and the person in the helmet on the front cover is the photographer himself. At the end of the shoot, Hawkey grabbed from the bin anumber of data sheets that had been thrown away, and used them to create the end papers. I believe there was some protest from Honeywell that the data was confidential, but the design still went ahead.<br /><br />The technology for printing metallic jackets was still at the research phase in 1966, but Deighton and Hawkey were real pioneers of jacket design and pushed ahead with a jacket which looked great but, because of the newness of the process, did damage easily and the black and white ink didn't respond well to being handled. If you can get a F/F copy of the book cover, then you've got a rarity.<br /><br />I've enjoyed your postings - thanks for the heads up about my website.Rob Mallowshttp://www.deightondossier.netnoreply@blogger.com