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Ian Fleming | Moonraker, 1955, inscribed by dust-jacket artist Kenneth Lewis

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

September 22, 01:33 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ian Fleming

Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955


8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, state B, INSCRIBED by Kenneth Lewis to Jon Gilbert, original black cloth, binding A, lettered in silver, DUST-JACKET, collector's black cloth clamshell box, spine sunned, bumped at head and foot


Kenneth Lewis designed the dust-jackets of the first three novels, Casino Royale, Live and Let Die and Moonraker. Gilbert notes that this state has the correct spelling of 'shoot' on page 10.

Gilbert A3a (1.2)

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