Jonathan Cape of London 1965.
First Edition, First Printing A beautiful fine condition crisp, clean book with a striking vibrant fine condition unrestored dust jacket.
The book is in beautiful condition with crisp black boards. The book has clean cloth with very sharp corners and no edgewear. Tiny bump to rear board edge (hard to see). The binding is tight and square. The patterned end papers are in perfect condition being clean and bright, with no owner names, no inscriptions, no bookstore stamps, and no bookplates. The internal pages are clean, flat and bright with No marks, No writing, No foxing, No bent pages, No age toning and No stains. Beautiful clean book internally appearing as unread. Please see images for more details.
The original striking unrestored jacket is in near fine condition. The colors are strong and vibrant and without any of the usual toning to the spine. The jacket no edgewear, no rips, no chips, no stains, no rubbing but a few tiny nicks to the spine and corner tips, no fading, no sunning/darkening and no foxing. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of 18s. net. Please see detailed images.
A superior example of this title in exceedingly scarce condition. Presents well on the shelf and would make a nice gift for a Fleming collector.
