"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Contents clean, neat gift inscription in ink to endpaper, some trivial wear to extremities of jacket, spine a little toned. 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). Item #76462
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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