Fleming, Ian The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
First edition first impression hardback with full unprice- clipped dust jacket with 15 shillings price on front flap.
Jonathan cape London 1962 Gildrose `productions ltd. Print run of 30,000. The 10th Bond novel.
Black boards with red endpapers with silver titling to spine and silver dagger embossed on front board.
DJ designed by Richard Chopping. covered in protective cover.
Rear flap blank as denotes true first edition. Front and rear dust jackets and spine all bright and clean. Note the line on title page between the E and M of Fleming. No tears or nicks on dust jacket.
221pp
Very slight lean. Book text clean but faded at edges as per a book of this age. Some marks on front and back flaps of dj. Couple of marks at top and bottom of front and back boards and on endpapers.
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The only one of Flemings Bond novels which is written in the first person, not of Bond but of Vivienne Michel with whom Bond has an affair. She even gets a credit on the title page as co-author.
