8vo. Original black cloth-textured boards (Gilbert’s Type B), lettered in silver; dust jacket (spine panel a little toned with minor wear at ends, some soiling, a little toning to edges and flap folds, some toning and spotting to rear panel and verso).

FIRST EDITION, second impression, with “shoo” corrected to “shoot” (p.10), in Type B cloth (no priority). Moonraker was the most self-consciously autobiographical of the Bond novels to date. Gilbert A3a (1.3).