"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Thunderball.
New York, NY: Viking, 1961. [Spy novel] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, VARIANT ISSUE. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.248. Publisher's yellow cloth, top edge red, in striking original pictorial dust-jacket priced at $3.95. No inscriptions, contents clean, jacket with a little wear to spine ends and extremities. Near fine. The first US printing of James Bond's famous Caribbean adventure. this is the variant issue with printer's mark to verso of half-title, where the type frame has touched the paper. From the comprehensive Ian Fleming bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (bookplate and pencilled note within). Item #67516
Gilbert A9b (1.2).
Price: £295.00
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