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— Abraham Lincoln
You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, First State, Binding A. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. Contents clean, no ink names, faint tape marks/outlines to endpapers, jacket is price clipped else particularly bright and fresh with lovely spine colour. The remaining corners, unusually, are square (not angle clipped per Cape's style). Basis for the 1967 film starring Sean Connery as James Bond. Described by Raymond Benson as 'one of the most successful books in the series, conjuring more mood and atmosphere than any Bond tale since Casino Royale (1953)'. Item #76428
Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A12a (1.2).
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