FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.
Lot 191

FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.

Closed13 June 2012

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GBP 13,750

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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 dust-jacket (jacket faintly browned and with light wear at extremities).

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 any 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.