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Live and Let Die
by Ian Fleming
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
First edition. First impression. In the first issue dust jacket. A near fine copy, only with slight bumping to the boards. The gilt bright and unfaded. A bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown. The faintest blemish to the top edge of the outer text block, not affecting the contents. The unclipped dust jacket near fine, only with slight edge wear and a bit of toning and rubbing at the rear panel. A faint touch of damp stain to the verso, not apparent at the front. An uncommonly sharp example overall, wholly unrestored, and scarce in the first issue. Housed in a custom box in calfskin leather over marbled boards. Adapted to film almost two decades later, Live and Let Die was written at Fleming's Goldeneye estate prior to the publication of what would be first Bond novel, Casino Royale.
Synopsis
"Her hair was black and fell to her shoulders. She had high cheekbones and a sensual mouth, and wore a dress of white silk. Her eyes were blue, alight and disdainful, but, as they gazed into his with a touch of humour, Bond realized that they contained a message. Solitaire watched his eyes on her and nonchalantly drew her forearms together so that the valley between her breasts deepened. The message was unmistakable." 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 this criminal heavy hitter 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 to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no-one, not even the mysterious Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end…
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Details
- Bookseller
- Canton Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FLLIJO54
- Title
- Live and Let Die
- Author
- Ian Fleming
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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