You Only Live Twice

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

Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, First State, Binding B, VARIANT with TWO PAIRS of 'bamboo' patterned endpapers bound in at the front. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper (type A cloth) over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, bespoke clamshell box. Minor wear to both book and jacket. Very good indeed. This binding cloth 'is far less common' (Gilbert p.392), and coupled with the double endpapers it makes for an elusive binding variant. From the Jon Gilbert collection (pencil ownership within).

Benson: The James Bond Bedside Companion, pp.135-6. Gilbert A12a(1.2), also pp.639-40.

Seller ID: 70565



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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