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

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.