Ian Fleming | From Russia, With Love, 1957, first edition

Ian Fleming

From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, original black cloth, lettered in silver and red, design to upper cover in silver and red, DUST-JACKET, collector's black cloth clamshell box, some wear to joints and edges, rear cover lightly soiled with circular stain

This example retains the printer's guidelines/colour markers, just visible to the edge of the flap; these mark the excess area to be cut and should not be visible after trimming the jacket.