James Bond First Editions

The Saturday Book 15.

HADFIELD, John (editor).

London: Hutchinson & Company, 1955. [Literary annual / the arts] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.276. With photographic plates. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial price clipped dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping. Owner name 'J.R.H. Richards' to endpaper. Very good in a used jacket, chipped to spine ends, extremities, and along top edge (some corresponding sunning to cloth beneath). A book of the arts, with contributions by Fred Bason, Laurence Whistler, Joan Hassall, Nancy Spain and others. Richard Chopping, illustrator of the striking dust-jacket, would soon leap to fame, producing the memorable artwork for Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Item #71105

Gilbert D20.

Price: £38.00