A PRISTINE COPY
Moonraker
Cape, 1955.
First edition. Original black cloth with silver embossed titles, in striking 'flames' dustwrapper. A fine copy in a superb, fine dustwrapper, virtually without flaw. The front panel shows a couple of barely perceptible spots, but the spine is unfaded and the background bright white, two aspects of the condition of this book which are almost inevitably compromised. A remarkable copy.
The third James Bond books, and Fleming's narrative style is now well established displaying his own brand of polished suspense. Cape's confidence in Fleming is evident as well, as 10,500 copies of the first edition were published. The materials used for the dustwrapper however (cheap, soft paper printed in orange and yellow, which fades, on a white background, which soils) mean that to find it in genuinely fine condition is extremely rare.
Stock ID: 31685
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