You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel)

Author: FLEMING, Ian Lancaster, (1908-1964)
Title: You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel)
Publication: London: Jonathan Cape, 1964

Description: [Spy novel] Second impression, bibliographer's copy. Version with yellow-tinted patterned endpapers (brown and green tints were also used). Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers. A working copy, with spotting to edges, creased tears to pp.183-6, marked-up with corrections, provided with a later plain brown paper jacket with printed labels, made for ready-reference purposes. Jon Gilbert's file copy, with his pencilled notes, bookplate and ownership signature. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. The final Cape impression of this novel to be printed during the author's lifetime.

Gilbert A12a (2).

Seller ID: 65376

Subject: James Bond 007



Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.

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