8vo. Original black cloth-textured boards (Gilbert’s Type A), upper cover with heart printed in red, spine lettered in red; dust jacket (some restoration along upper and lower edges, some rubbing and creasing to spine panel, along joints and flap folds, rear panel soiled and apparently cleaned); folding case.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, in First State dust jacket (without Sunday Times review printed on front flap, priced “10s. 6d. net”). INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (“from / Ian Fleming”) on card mounted on front free endpaper:  The first James Bond novel written by Fleming in early 1952 at Goldeneye, his tropical hideaway in Jamaica. Gilbert A1a (1.1).