"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
New York, NY: New American Library, 1965. [Reference critique] FIRST US EDITION, bibliographer's copy, review copy. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.147; [1], blank. Publisher's quarter cloth with titles to spine, blue endpapers, top edge blue, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at $3.95, NAL printed review slip on cream paper tucked in. A fine copy of the book in a very good wrapper with some browning to front cover, small sticker pull to same. Amis' first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote the light-hearted 'Book of Bond' in 1965 and the first post-Fleming 007 novel 'Colonel Sun'. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). Item #73150
BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'.
Price: £175.00
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