James Bond First Editions

You Only Live Twice.

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964).

New York, NY: New American Library, 1964. [Spy Fiction] FIRST US EDITION, fourth Printing. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.240; [2], blank. Publisher's hardback yellow cloth binding blocked in two colours, red top edge, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $4.50. Contents clean, discreet book ticket to pastedown, light soiling to exterior, jacket with some chips and tears, spine and extremities dusty/spotted. VG. These later printings are far less common than the first. From the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #67324

Gilbert A12b (4).

Price: £40.00