Description
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 196, [2]. Original red cloth, spine lettered in yellow, cream dustjacket printed in black. Scattered spotting. Dustjacket soiled, chipped to edges, spine panel darkened, exposed spine ends a little discoloured.
£80
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 196, [2]. Original red cloth, spine lettered in yellow, cream dustjacket printed in black. Scattered spotting. Dustjacket soiled, chipped to edges, spine panel darkened, exposed spine ends a little discoloured.
The scarce first edition (Library Hub records 6 copies) of a book that Ian Fleming prized highly enough to repeatedly request his publisher Cape to reprint it, succeeding in 1963 with the agreement that he would write an introduction for it.