James Bond First Editions

Octopussy (James Bond short stories).

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964).

New York, NY: New American Library, 1966. [Short adventures] American book club edition, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.121. Publisher's cloth in pictorial wrapper, white endpapers, top edge red, twelve black and white illustrations plus vignette illustration to title page, pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions, contents clean. A fine copy of the book, in a near fine wrapper with a few small chips/tears to spine ends. Shows well. The book club edition comes in a different binding to the first. This copy comes from the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled note and ownership within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #67512

Gilbert A14b (2).

Price: £65.00