The Spy Who Loved Me
by FLEMING, Ian
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Top edge lightly toned and spotted, a few small marks to other edges; ownership signature to f.f.e.p.; single fox mark to half title and title at the outside margin; jacket with small chips and tears at corners and head and tail of spine. [Gilbert A10a (1.1).
Synopsis
‘He was about six feet tall, slim and fit. The eyes in the lean , slightly tanned face were a very clear grey-blue and as they observed the men they were cold and watchful. His good looks had a dangerous, almost cruel quality that had frightened me. But now I knew he could smile, I thought his face exciting, in a way no face had ever excited me before …’ Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers—the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007; the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love her …
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Details
- Bookseller
- Archives Fine Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4284
- Title
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Author
- FLEMING, Ian
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, First Printing, first state
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- First State
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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