Live and Let Die
Cape, 1954.
First edition, first state. Original black cloth with gilt titles and vignette, in printed dustwrapper. A fine copy in a very near fine dustwrapper, which is unusually crisp and bright, with just a trace of wear to the corners at the head of the spine and some very faint browning at the top of the otherwise very clean back panel. An exceptionally nice copy.
The second James Bond novel. The first state of the dustwrapper is identifiable by the lack of the two line credit on the front flap "Jacket devised by the author and executed by Kenneth Lewis". This was changed during the print run.
Liberated by the encouraging response to his first novel, Fleming adopted a more adventurous style in this novel and in doing so developed his own "informative journalistic" form of fiction which was to become characteristic of all the James Bond novels to follow. Certainly friend and fellow writer William Plomer approved of the book, "If I'm any judge, this is just the stuff - sexy, violent, ingenious and full of well-collected detail of all kinds."
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