Ian Fleming | Thunderball, 1961, first edition, publisher's trial binding

Ian Fleming

Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, PUBLISHER'S TRIAL BINDING, dark brown cloth, lettered in gilt, skeletal hand design to upper cover in silver, DUST-JACKET, collector's black cloth clamshell box, bumped at head and foot of spine

SEEMINGLY UNIQUE; THE ONLY KNOWN COPY WITH THIS TRIAL BINDING.

"This casing was likely rejected in favour of a cheaper blind-stamped alternative" (Gilbert, p. 300).