"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
The Diamond Smugglers.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.160. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to the spine in original dust-jacket illustrated by Denis Piper, priced at 12/6. Contents clean, edges slightly toned, jacket gently toned to spine, one small tear at top edge. Near fine. Ian Fleming's first non-Bond book, and also his first non-fiction work. Written with the assistance of diamond expert John Collard, who is noted in the book as 'John Blaize'. Item #67418
Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A15a (1.1).
Price: £450.00
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