Jonathan Cape, London, 1957
First Edition, First Printing Near fine/fine crisp book with stunning, bright, fine/near fine dust jacket.
Original near fine/fine crisp black covered boards with a silver gun and red rose to the front of the boards. Vibrant red titles to spine, with but a hint of oxidation. The book has square boards with sharp corners. The boards are clean with no edgewear with a tight and square binding. The end papers are clean with no owner names, no book plates. The internal pages are bright, clean and flat with crisp pages with No marks, No inscriptions, No stains, No bent pages and No foxing. Beautiful bright clean book, internally appearing as unread. Please see images for details.
The original first edition dust jacket is in beautiful, bright fine/near fine condition for this title having benefited from very slight restoration by an expert paper conservator to the outer spine tips. This jacket is usually found in poor condition with large chips, and badly damaged and sunned (darkened) spines, and often large chunks of the spine completely missing. The colors tones of this jacket are usually bright. No darkening to the spine as is otherwise common with this jacket. The jacket has no chips, no tears, no rubbing, no stains, no foxing, no darkening, and no edgewear. The jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of 13s. 6d. net. Please see the many detailed images.
A superb collectors copy of this scarce Fleming title. Presents well on the shelf.
