Ian Fleming | For Your Eyes Only, 1960, uncorrected proof

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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September 22, 02:12 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Ian Fleming

For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960

8vo, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, original yellow-green wrappers, lettered in black, collector's green morocco clamshell box, scattered spotting to covers

125 copies of the uncorrected proof of For Your Eyes Only were printed. This book marked a change in approach for Fleming, as it contained five short stories, including A View to Kill and Quantum of Solace, rather than a full-length novel.

Gilbert A8a, 'Uncorrected Proof Copies', this copy photographed p. 267.

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