FLEMING | Live and Let Die, 1954, first edition

IAN FLEMING

LIVE AND LET DIE. LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1954

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, original black cloth, lettered in gilt, design to upper board in gilt, DUST-JACKET (second issue with additional text to front flap), collector’s blue cloth chemise with blue morocco-backed slipcase

The second issue of the dust-jacket includes the two-line note "Jacket devised by the author | and executed by Kenneth Lewis".

LITERATURE:

Gilbert A2a (1.2)