Ian Fleming | Moonraker, 1955, first edition, first impression

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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September 22, 01:32 PM GMT

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6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Ian Fleming

Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST STATE, original black cloth, lettered in silver, DUST-JACKET, lightly toned and spotted to rear cover

An uncommonly bright dust-jacket of the first edition of Moonraker with virtually no wear to the spine. Gilbert notes this as a first state (with "shoo" for "shoot" on page 10).

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