From Russia With Love – Ian Fleming

Description

HARDBACK – A very good or better book bound in the publisher’s black cloth boards with bright red lettering to the spine and silver gun and red rose motif to the front panel. Internally, the pages are clean and fresh with no signs of foxing or toning. The book is free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also in very good or better condition with minor rubbing to the spine tips, with a small chip to the top left of the spine. None of the usual browning to the spine and with clean front and rear panels. Jonathan Cape have price clipped the dust wrapper and re-priced the wrapper with a printed price of 15s.net to the side of the clipping. We have handled a large number of these titles over the last twenty five plus years, but have never encountered a repriced first edition. It is unlikely to be a remaindered copy as the book sold extremely well, and is more likely to be a copy misplaced, then found in the Cape warehouse a year or two after publication and re offered for sale from 1960 onwards at a new increased price. A very nice copy in clean condition with all UK first edition points present.