Ian Fleming - You Only Live Twice - First Edition Economics first edition

first edition

publisher's device in green to lower cover

subtle mark to page 51 but generally clean inside

The photograph that is the basis for the engraving here was taken by Oscar Gustave Rejlander who provided many of the portrait photographs for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals published two years previously

reinforced with tape to reverse at the top and bottom of the spine

Ian Fleming - You Only Live Twice - First Edition Economics first editionFLEMING, Ian (1908 1964). You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. FIRST EDITION, first impression, second state, binding A. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 255; [1]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, in gilt to upper, bamboo pattern endpapers. Dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping, with printed price of 156s. net to front flap. The rarer second state with "First published March 1964" to copyright page. Slight lean to textblock,