MOONRAKER

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to upper board and spine, in the Kenneth Lewis illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with toning to the text block and a few marks to the closed fore-edge, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good, rubbed, nicked and toned dustwrapper that is a little worn at the spine tips and folds, with the habitual fading to the flames on the spine. Not price-clipped (10s 6d net to both the front and rear flaps). A decent example in entirely original condition.

The third novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. This example of the book in the second of Gilbert's two variant states, with "shoot" spelled correctly on page ten. The first edition was published on 7th April 1955 in an edition of 9,600 copies (including both variants). [Gilbert A3a (1.2)].