{"product_id":"ian-fleming-diamonds-are-forever-first-1956-124864","title":"Diamonds are Forever.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eFirst edition of the fourth novel in the James Bond series, the film of which was the last to star Sean Connery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFleming was inspired to write \u003cem\u003eDiamonds are Forever\u003c\/em\u003e by a 1954 \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e story on diamond smuggling, and his background research for the novel would later be published as the non-fiction work \u003cem\u003eThe Diamond Smugglers\u003c\/em\u003e. On completing the book, Fleming wrote to his friend Hilary Bray that, 'I baked a fresh cake in Jamaica this year which I think has finally exhausted my inventiveness as it contains every single method of escape and every variety of suspenseful action that I had omitted from my previous books—in fact everything except the kitchen sink, and if you can think up a good plot involving kitchen sinks, please send it along speedily' (Parker, \u003cem\u003eGoldeneye\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 45).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition, first impression; 8vo (19.5 x 13.5 cm); some mild spotting, primarily to early and late leaves and page edges, occasionally affecting extreme edges of textblock, some light staining to title-page and one or two others, not affecting legibility of text, else good; original black boards blocked with a diamond pattern in blind, titles to spine and diamond to upper board in silver, light spotting to edges, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, spine ends and corner tips chipped, three small pieces of tape to interior of dust-jacket, two to top of spine and one to lower edge, a little worn to extremities, liquid splash to rear panel, not affecting text, small pink marks to lower edge of rear panel, else a bright and bold copy of one of the most famous books in Fleming's series; 257pp, [1]pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"FLEMING, Ian.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57633381024119,"sku":"124864","price":4439.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/124864_01.jpg?v=1792688193","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/ian-fleming-diamonds-are-forever-first-1956-124864","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}