8vo. (Minor spotting to preliminaries and some margins along fore-edge.) Original black cloth-textured boards (Gilbert’s Type A), upper cover with gilt coin design, spine gilt-lettered (slightly leaned); dust jacket (minor chipping to ends of spine panel and extremities, rear panel a little browned and soiled with some rubbing, a little toned on verso and flap folds and edges).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST ISSUE, in First State dust-jacket without credit to the designer Kenneth Lewis. the second James Bond book. Gilbert A2a (1.1).