London, Jonathan Cape, 1957
Fleming's 'tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale'. The fifth and best of Fleming's James Bond titles. In a contemporary review The Times Literary Supplement described this as Fleming's 'tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale'. It is the first Bond novel with a jacket by Richard Chopping, who went on to execute many of the subsequent Bond covers, often in collaboration with Fleming himself.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's black boards (Gilbert's Binding A) stamped in silver & red, with the Richard Chopping dust jacket; an exceptionally sharp copy in an unusually bright dust jacket with tiny loss at the corners and a small, trivial abrasion to the edge of the front flap.
Gilbert A5a 1.1.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's black boards (Gilbert's Binding A) stamped in silver & red, with the Richard Chopping dust jacket; an exceptionally sharp copy in an unusually bright dust jacket with tiny loss at the corners and a small, trivial abrasion to the edge of the front flap.
Gilbert A5a 1.1.
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