Introduces Jamaica. Edited by Morris Cargill.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. [Travel book] FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the dust-jacket as described in the bibliography. 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 at 42s. A particularly crisp example in unclipped wrapper with a short edge tear to rear panel (many seem to be clipped). Novelist Ian Fleming discusses the island where, at his winter retreat named Goldeneye, he wrote one James Bond novel per year from 1952/3-1964. This was a lavish, expensive publication priced at 42s; Fleming's Bond novel that year (The Man With The Golden) was originally sold at 18s. Item #74567
Gilbert B6a (1.1).
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