Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo ; 255, [1] pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1955, London

[Book #19786]

A First Edition in Near Fine condition, date of April 17th 1955 on front end paper, in Very Good+ dust-wrapper with printed price of '10s. 6d. Net' with very minor chipping and darkening to spine. With 'shoot' spelt correctly on page 10, no priority is given though;

Third 1955 entry into the James Bond literary series, Fleming delivers a thriller set entirely on British turf. Main villain Hugo Drax, who is a leading member of British society, is not what he seems nor is his weapon being built to protect the Homeland. M is convinced the industrialist is cheating at cards, but there's a lot more at stake

Basis for the movie with Roger Moore and Bond Girl Lois Chiles