"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
The James Bond Dossier. Two variant copies.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Together with a variant First Edition, trimmed slightly smaller and measuring a few mm. shorter and narrower than the regular edition. Contents clean, page edges gently toned/dusty, trivial weat to jackets, regular copy is priced clipped. An unusual pair. 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' (1968). From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). Item #76255
BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592, see also Appendix A, page 634.
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