Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Size: 8vo ; Signed by Illustrator
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1954, London

[Book #13186]

A most attractive First Edition, "first printed 1954" on verso, in Fine condition in Very Good to Near Fine 2nd impression dust-jacket 2nd state variant with all four corners unclipped, showing original price of 10s.6d. Net. Dust-jacket with little rubbing and chipping. The book is signed by the dust-jacket artist on the front free end-paper: "Kenneth Lewis, Artist to the Author". Mr. Lewis further signed the dust-jacket below the credit blurb on the front flap as "Ken Lewis";

In the second book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, Agent 007 is sent to New York City to investigate "Mr. Big", an underworld voodoo leader who is suspected by M of selling 17th century gold coins to finance Soviet spy operations in America.

The eighth film in the James Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond and Gloria Hendry as Bond girl Rosie Carver