" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher

Galahad Books, 1986. Large octavo. Original orange boards, spine lettered and blocked in black. With dust jacket. A very good copy indeed in like dust jacket, with minor tape repair to head of spine. First edition thus, first printing, an uncommon reissue hardback, being the only edition in this format with the purple dust jacket, as opposed to the red original. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Item #156015
Gilbert, page 592; The Schøyen Collection No. 233.
Price: £75.00