You Only Live Twice
FLEMING, Ian.
You Only Live Twice
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964
8vo., black publisher’s boards lettered with Japanese characters gilt to upper cover and titles in silver to backstrip; publisher’s device to foot; bamboo effect endpapers; in the original unclipped pictorial dustwrapper by Richard Chopping (16s. net) featuring a poisonous toad, a dragonfly and a pink chrysanthemum; pp. [xiv], 15-255, [i]; a very nice example, slight shelf lean, lightly spotted to edges; the spine tips just a little pushed, with faint ghosting to the endpapers; the near-fine wrapper just a little rubbed at edges with a couple of tiny nicks and chips, mostly to spine tips.
First edition, first impression, binding A. The first state, with ‘First Published 1964’ to publication page.
Fleming’s final entry in what is known as the ‘Blofeld Trilogy’, which began with Thunderball in 1961 and was followed by On her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1963. Fleming had travelled to Japan in the Autumn of 1962, keen to set his next novel in ‘The Land of the Rising Sun’. The resulting book was the last to be published in Fleming’s lifetime, and follows Bond as he is recruited by the head of the Japanese secret service to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand (A.K.A. Ernst Blofeld).
FLEMING, Ian.
You Only Live Twice
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964
8vo., black publisher’s boards lettered with Japanese characters gilt to upper cover and titles in silver to backstrip; publisher’s device to foot; bamboo effect endpapers; in the original unclipped pictorial dustwrapper by Richard Chopping (16s. net) featuring a poisonous toad, a dragonfly and a pink chrysanthemum; pp. [xiv], 15-255, [i]; a very nice example, slight shelf lean, lightly spotted to edges; the spine tips just a little pushed, with faint ghosting to the endpapers; the near-fine wrapper just a little rubbed at edges with a couple of tiny nicks and chips, mostly to spine tips.
First edition, first impression, binding A. The first state, with ‘First Published 1964’ to publication page.
Fleming’s final entry in what is known as the ‘Blofeld Trilogy’, which began with Thunderball in 1961 and was followed by On her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1963. Fleming had travelled to Japan in the Autumn of 1962, keen to set his next novel in ‘The Land of the Rising Sun’. The resulting book was the last to be published in Fleming’s lifetime, and follows Bond as he is recruited by the head of the Japanese secret service to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand (A.K.A. Ernst Blofeld).
FLEMING, Ian.
You Only Live Twice
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964
8vo., black publisher’s boards lettered with Japanese characters gilt to upper cover and titles in silver to backstrip; publisher’s device to foot; bamboo effect endpapers; in the original unclipped pictorial dustwrapper by Richard Chopping (16s. net) featuring a poisonous toad, a dragonfly and a pink chrysanthemum; pp. [xiv], 15-255, [i]; a very nice example, slight shelf lean, lightly spotted to edges; the spine tips just a little pushed, with faint ghosting to the endpapers; the near-fine wrapper just a little rubbed at edges with a couple of tiny nicks and chips, mostly to spine tips.
First edition, first impression, binding A. The first state, with ‘First Published 1964’ to publication page.
Fleming’s final entry in what is known as the ‘Blofeld Trilogy’, which began with Thunderball in 1961 and was followed by On her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1963. Fleming had travelled to Japan in the Autumn of 1962, keen to set his next novel in ‘The Land of the Rising Sun’. The resulting book was the last to be published in Fleming’s lifetime, and follows Bond as he is recruited by the head of the Japanese secret service to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand (A.K.A. Ernst Blofeld).