Ian Fleming | The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962, first edition, dust-jacket

Ian Fleming

The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962

FIRST EDITION, first impression, 8vo, double-page illustration on pp. 6-7, original dark grey/brown cloth, lettered in silver, design to upper cover in silver and blind, red endpapers, DUST-JACKET, dust-jacket slightly frayed at head of spine with small closed tears at extremities

The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel in Fleming's James Bond series, and marks a significant departure in style; it is not written from the point of view of Bond, but of a young Canadian woman called Vivienne Michel: in the story, she recounts her romantic history, and encounter with Bond.

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