"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Jonathan Cape, 2018. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, bullet motif travelling across binding in gilt and gloss black, blue endpapers, edges yellow. With dust jacket. With two Waterstones stickers to front panel of dust jacket. A fine copy. First edition, first impression, special issue for Waterstones, identifiable by its yellow edges. 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 #156152
The Schøyen Collection No. 414.
Price: £75.00
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