James Bond First Editions

The Spy Who Loved Me.

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster, (1908-1964).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION, State A, IN AN UNCUT JACKET. Crown octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers in a pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 15s. The jacket is in the final proof-state with unclipped corners. A gently used copy in a lightly nicked jacket, housed in an elegant cloth-covered clamshell box. The tenth book in the James Bond series. A beautiful girl with a sensual past, Vivienne Michel is different from all the women 007 has known before. When she is confronted with two evil killers there is only one man who can save her — Bond himself. Sold by Maggs Bros ABA, to Jon Gilbert, then forming part of his bibliographical archive of Ian Fleming (bookplate and provenance tucked in). Item #72634

Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A10a (1.1).

Price: £1,350.00