FLEMING | You Only Live Twice, 1964, first edition, first state

IAN FLEMING

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1964

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST STATE, original black cloth, lettered in silver, Japanese characters on upper cover in gilt, wood-grain effect endpapers, DUST-JACKET

As noted by Gilbert, "the first state of the text exhibits numerous instances of battered or heavily printed type", as here.

LITERATURE:

Gilbert A12a (1.1)