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Ian Fleming

Live and Let Die First Edition

Jonathan Cape

1954

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First edition, first impression, first issue, and first state of Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Live and Let Die.

  • Ian Fleming (English).
  • London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.
  • Octavo.
  • 240 pages.
  • Black cloth covered boards, in colorful dust jacket, housed in a custom half-morocco clamshell box.


A very pretty copy of Fleming’s second novel, written in just two months at his Goldeneye estate, before the reviews of the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, landed.

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Boards with some bowing, slight discoloring to gilt on lower half of Jonathan Cape logo on spine.

Faint pink stain to part of bottom and side edge.

Toning and some rubbing around edges.

Dust jacket with a coin-sized stain to the inside of the back flap.

Feature(s)

First Edition, Dust Jacket

Language

English

Subject

Fiction, Mystery and Detective, Novels, Modern first editions, Specialist Selections, English literature and history, Literature

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