FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. 8° (190 x 125mm). Original black cloth, lettered and stamped in gilt, original purple dust-jacket (some light staining to covers and spine, back of dust-jacket lightly soiled and head of spine with small creases). Provenance: Pat Perrey (ownership inscription).
FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND BOND NOVEL, IN AN ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST ISSUE DUST-JACKET with the price '10s.6d. net' and blurb on the front flap, and without credit for the jacket design. Written before the first Bond book, Casino Royale, had been published, Live and Let Die is the 'breath-taking hunt for secret treasure that takes Bond to Harlem, Florida and Jamaica', the last of which was Fleming's adopted home. Biondi and Pickard, p.41; Campbell 2007A1.
FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. 8° (190 x 125mm). Original black cloth, lettered and stamped in gilt, original purple dust-jacket (some light staining to covers and spine, back of dust-jacket lightly soiled and head of spine with small creases). Provenance: Pat Perrey (ownership inscription).
FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND BOND NOVEL, IN AN ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST ISSUE DUST-JACKET with the price '10s.6d. net' and blurb on the front flap, and without credit for the jacket design. Written before the first Bond book, Casino Royale, had been published, Live and Let Die is the 'breath-taking hunt for secret treasure that takes Bond to Harlem, Florida and Jamaica', the last of which was Fleming's adopted home. Biondi and Pickard, p.41; Campbell 2007A1.
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