Introduces Jamaica. Edited by Morris Cargill.
New York: Hawthorn Books 1965 [actually published early 1966]. [Travel book] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, printed at the same time as the British sheets and sharing the same pagination. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.240, illustrated throughout with colour plates, cartographic endpapers printed in colour. Publisher's russet cloth hardcover, gilt titles, top edge ochre, in photographic dust-jacket priced $6.95. Export copy, re-priced by hand to 42s, for sale in British territories. Contents clean, jacket with minor edge wear. Near fine. Novelist Ian Fleming discusses the island where, at his winter retreat named Goldeneye, he wrote one Bond novel a year from 1952/3-1964. This copy is from the collection of Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his initialled pencil note within. Item #68863
Gilbert B6b.
Price: £65.00
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