London: Jonathan Cape, 1966
8vo., lettered typographically in gilt to upper cover and spine with publisher’s device to foot; textured grey endpapers; together in the neatly-clipped pictorial dustwrapper featuring a shell and fish design by Richard Chopping; pp. [x], 11-94, [ii]; essentially a fine copy, with just a couple of very light scratches to the outer edge of the text block and one tiny corner crease; the wrapper, aside from the clipping, fine, and incredibly fresh.
First edition, first impression, binding A in brown cloth. A collection of two short stories, published two years after the author’s death from a heart attack in 1964.
Inspired by a Sunday Times story regarding a cache of Nazi gold hidden in the Austrian Alps, Fleming began writing Octopussy in 1962. The plot of the first story sees Bond as a third party, privy to the events which unfold in the novel and centre around an ageing Major Smythe who, in a very similar vein to Fleming himself, is a former military man, heavy drinker and smoker who has suffered a number of near-fatal heart attacks. The Living Daylights follows Bond as he travels to Berlin to rescue a fellow agent.
Due to the clipping (and therefore lack of price) the issue is undetermined, but this remains an exceptional copy of the final book in the Bond series.
Gilbert, p. 445-6
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966
8vo., lettered typographically in gilt to upper cover and spine with publisher’s device to foot; textured grey endpapers; together in the neatly-clipped pictorial dustwrapper featuring a shell and fish design by Richard Chopping; pp. [x], 11-94, [ii]; essentially a fine copy, with just a couple of very light scratches to the outer edge of the text block and one tiny corner crease; the wrapper, aside from the clipping, fine, and incredibly fresh.
First edition, first impression, binding A in brown cloth. A collection of two short stories, published two years after the author’s death from a heart attack in 1964.
Inspired by a Sunday Times story regarding a cache of Nazi gold hidden in the Austrian Alps, Fleming began writing Octopussy in 1962. The plot of the first story sees Bond as a third party, privy to the events which unfold in the novel and centre around an ageing Major Smythe who, in a very similar vein to Fleming himself, is a former military man, heavy drinker and smoker who has suffered a number of near-fatal heart attacks. The Living Daylights follows Bond as he travels to Berlin to rescue a fellow agent.
Due to the clipping (and therefore lack of price) the issue is undetermined, but this remains an exceptional copy of the final book in the Bond series.
Gilbert, p. 445-6