It could well be lettering, not a font. However, if you use the Edit link to move the thread up to the main Type ID Board, someone could prove me wrong.

Thanks i have moved up!

Well, it’s not the British first edition, and the more I look at it, the more it looks like a Push Pin Studios effort…

The site that the image came from attributes the book cover to an edition circa 1973.
http://tinyurl.com/c25j7av
I then found it published by Harmondsworth, Penguin Books 1973.

- Herb

And they used it for a lot of Evelyn Waugh books.