Moonraker
by Fleming, Ian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition first printing copy. Black cloth with just a touch of staining to front panel. Vibrant complete silver lettering on spine and front panel. Slight spine lean. A touch of foxing to text block edge. A tiny "x" in pen to ffep. Very faint offset from jacket to ffep. Sharp cornered and firm spine ends. Shoot spelled correctly on page 10. The unrestored jacket in mylar has some rubbing to edges and tiny chips to spine ends. The jacket is unclipped with a price of 10s 6d net. The jacket is evenly foxed/toned to back panel and spine is slightly faded. The book is housed in an beautiful custom clamshell box in fine condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of the world's best-known secret agent, is the author of fourteen James Bond books. Born in London in 1908 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he became the Reuters Moscow correspondent in 1929. In the spring of 1939, Fleming went back to Moscow as a special correspondent for the London Times . In June of that same year, he joined Naval Intelligence and served throughout World War II, finally earning the rank of Commander, RNVSR (Sp.). Much of the James Bond material was drawn directly from Fleming's experiences as an intelligence officer. Later, Fleming became a consultant on foreign affairs for the London Sunday Times , by which time he had become far better known as the creator of James Bond.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17207
- Title
- Moonraker
- Author
- Fleming, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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