YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

First edition, first printing, first state. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine and gilt to the upper board, in the Richard Chopping illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with faint offsetting to the endpapers and a small bookseller's label to the front pastedown are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper that is bright and with the pink of the flower on the spine still retaining its colour. Uncommon thus.

The first edition, first impression, first state of the twelfth James Bond book, of which 55,018 copies were printed. [Gilbert A12a (1.1)].