London, Jonathan Cape, 1965
A very good example of one of Fleming's most famous Bond novels, a popularity further enhanced by the film starring the lamentably now late Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. Set in Fleming's adopted Jamaica this work introduces the master criminal Francisco 'Pistols' Scaramanga, a crack-shot assassin with a penchant for bling, an inability to whistle and, in the film version at least, a third nipple...
First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's black boards, gilt lettering to spine, small mark to rear board, spine ends slightly bumped, patterned endpapers, with the price-clipped pictorial dustjacket by Richard Chopping, some toning and spotting, creasing to edges, spine ends chipped with minor loss, otherwise a very good copy.
Gilbert A13a 1.3.
First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's black boards, gilt lettering to spine, small mark to rear board, spine ends slightly bumped, patterned endpapers, with the price-clipped pictorial dustjacket by Richard Chopping, some toning and spotting, creasing to edges, spine ends chipped with minor loss, otherwise a very good copy.
Gilbert A13a 1.3.
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