THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS

First collected edition and first edition in book form. Publisher's original red boards with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Title page and chapter heading illustrations from woodcuts. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is a little toned to the spine and panel edges and with a single short closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel. Not price-clipped (15s 0d net to the lower front flap).

A collection of essays by notable writers, assembled on the prompting of Ian Fleming, each offering a reflection on one of the Seven Deadly Sins. First published in the Sunday Times newspaper in January 1962, this first edition in book form followed in October the same year. (Bloomfield and Mendelson B78a).