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Moonraker.

Stock Code 113361

London, Jonathan Cape, 1955

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One of the finest things that ian fleming ever did. First edition of the third James Bond novel, and the only one to take place entirely in Britain.

Moonraker was perhaps the most personal of the Bond novels. The early chapters are based largely on Fleming's life in London — the famous scene in which Bond bests Hugo Drax at bridge was based on Fleming's membership at the private club Boodles — and it explores themes of Englishness, the Second World War, rocketry, and the threat to western states of Communism and renewed Nazi activity. The author Michael Dibdin described the bridge scene as, 'surely one of the finest things that Ian Fleming ever did' (introduction to the Penguin books edition, 2006).

First edition, first impression; 8vo; ownership initials in blue ink to the front free endpaper, contents faintly toned, edges of text block a little spotted; original black cloth, titles to spine and upper board in silver, spine rolled, extremities lightly rubbed, and few small marks to the boards, a very good copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket, spotting to the lower panel and a few nicks at the extremities, housed in a custom black cloth solander box with red velvet interior; 256pp.

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Moonraker.

FLEMING, Ian.

Stock code: 113361

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