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Fleming, Ian : Live and Let Die

The Reprint Society Ltd, London, 1956

Unclipped DJ in archival cover, small chips., Fine

1st Edition

FLEMING**, IAN: : LIVE AND LET DIE.**

LONDON.THE REPRINT SOCIETY LTD.,1956.

ISBN No ISBN.

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Book originally published London/Cape 1954 and this edn by arrangement with Cape.] Neat, owner's small name hidden behind front flap of dw/dj - in the top left-hand corner and dw/dj unclipped - absence of publisher's price - as a book club edition.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial 3-colour block (b/w and pink) artwork illustrated front panel of dw/dj, with black lettering,rear panel with b/w panel within the dw/dj design with book club's forthcoming titles advert; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip of dw/dj slightly browned.Top front+rear corners and front lower corner minimally rubbed with reciprocal loss and to head+foot of rear spine/backstrip's gutter's edge a small closed tear/nick each.The bottom 3.5" of rear inner flap of dw/dj's fold is worn/ rubbed/nibbled (silverfish?) with some minor loss - bd's edge unaffected though! Top edge burgundy(?) coloured,fore-edges fairly clean and with ubiquitous but light,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,text body foxing free - once past the half-title page until virtually the penultimate page - foxing/ spotting restricted to front pastedown, front free endpaper and then to the rear pastedown,rear free endpapers (both sides) and penultimate and last pages.Otherwise solid and sound - near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright clean,generally sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to red leather label at top of spine/backstrip and partially foxed/spotted white feps.Top front corner with a minor dent concomitantly affecting the top corners of internal pages upto pp35 - other corners sharp and unaffected.Bd's rear, bottom edge also with a small dent with resultant decreasing degrees of said impression to pages' bottom corners/edges from pastedown,eps and pages (from pp247 back to pp124/5.) Also,front+rear bd's fore-edges lightly discoloured/marked (damp-stained?) - which seems to be a common fault from his edn.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,1- 247pp [paginated] includes 23 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages and contents list/table. Described hard,but fairly and honestly - probably too detailed - but nowhere as bad as it reads or sounds! Still a very acceptacle copy for collectors. Ian Fleming is writing a succession of James Bond adventures,It would be interesting to know what his own bookshelves of thrillers contain.I would guess much Sapper,some Buchan,and a few Spillane,Chase and Chandler. You should certainly meet James Bond.He is somebody rather new,and very exciting,in the world of thriller stories.Very much trussed,much battered,much tortured,much provoked,he fights to kill.Under his armpit he wears a Beretta.25,with a skeleton handle,in a chamois leather holster.The toe-caps of his shoes are lined with steel. His shirts are heavy white silk,his ties knitted black silk.He belongs to the best clubs.He drives a grey supercharged Bentley convertible.He is a cold,clear-headed gambler at cards.He takes his beautiful women where he finds them. What a lot of painful things happenn to James Bond and the lovely girls that he falls in love with! But Ian Fleming makes certain that the villain suffers even worse pain than that inflicted upon Bond. [Richard Usborne in the book club supplement.] Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.

FLEMING**, IAN: : LIVE AND LET DIE.**

LONDON.CAPE,1954.

ISBN No ISBN.

UK,12mo HB minus issued Richard Chopping dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Originally published CAPE,April1 954.This,2nd impression a little later,in the same year,1954.] NFINE.No owner inscrptn. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt medallion design to front bd; spine/ backstrip with impressed lettering (gilt? oxidised?) and bright,clean,near immaculate plan white eps; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no bumping,nicks or tears present.Top edges lightly toned with sporadic,slight dust-soiling foxing spots - to a much,much lesser degree than is normally experienced and encountered,fore-edges brighter and cleaner with light,tiny,sporadic foxing/ spotting - very few of which seem to have bled through to page edges/borders. Contents from pp5 (first page contents list/table) to story's end (pp240) almost foxing-free and bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.A few faint foxing spots from ffe have lightly bled through to the reverse of the title page itself with a small other blemish on title page's face; and similarly from the rear free endpaper light,faint foxing/spotting back to pp238. UK,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,5- 240pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,XXIII (23) chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title-pages. Described hard but fairly and honestly - owing particularly,to the listing price. All minor faults aside,a really exceptional,clean,sharp,collectable copy - especially given the book's age and surviving without it's dw/dj which would have protected it,even more.Very scarce 2nd Bond title. Beautiful,fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr. Big - master of fear, artist in crime,and Voodoo Baron of Death.James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that,after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem to the Everglades and on the Caribbean,007 has realized that Mr. Big is one of the most dangerous men he has ever faced,and nobody,not even the enigmatic Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end. Richard Chopping (active 1939-45). Illustrator of natural history subjects and children's books.Among the former, 'Butterflies in Britain',in the Picture Puffin series,(drawn direct onto the the litho plate) is handled with assurance and a fine decorative sense.Chopping also contributed nature subjects and other illustrations to the Bantam Picture Book series - these are lively and humorous but sometimes slightly grotesque.'Mr Postlethwaite's Reindeer',a hardback,is illustrated in line.He designed the dust jackets for 9 of Jonathan Cape's editions of the James Bond novels in a detailed surrealist style.Fleming only told him the things that he wanted on the dw/dj - the same arrangement for all the other 8 titles that Chopping did.He had come to Fleming's notice after the latter's wife spotted some of Chopping's trompe-l'oeil paintings at the Hanover Galleries, resulting in an immediate commission for this,the 5th 'Bond' title.Dr No dw/dj design was promised/commissioned to Pat Marriott. However Chopping designed the dw/djs for the following 8 titles: 'GOLDFINGER','FOR YOUR EYES ONLY', 'THUNDERBALL' ,THE SPY WHO LOVED ME','OHMSS','YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE','THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN' and OCTOPUSSY and THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS'. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.
Not SIGNED.

FLEMING, Ian : Live and Let Die

Jonathan Cape, 1954

A vg++copy (externally bright and clean, heavy tape stains in the corners of front and rear endpapers, bookplate fep) in a vg+ d.w. (the third issue with the Lewis credit close to the blurb, and in same type-face), small chip head spiner, upper and lower margins unnecesarily protectively strengthened with sellotape (mid 20th century's most notorious book enemy!), which has bled and left permanent staining. Nonetheless an acceptable copy of a scarce book, particularly in d.w.

2nd Printing

FLEMING, Ian : Live and Let Die

The First Edition Library, Shelton Conn., 1982

A facsimile reprint of the extremely rare first edition of the second Bond book. A fine unread copy in a fine d.w., in a fine thick cardboard slipcase as issued, the sides having facsimiles of the front and rear d.w. panels respectively. This facsimile edition is now itself rather uncommon.

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