8vo. Original black cloth-textured boards, with gun-and-rose design to upper cover in bronze and silver, spine lettered in silver and bronze; dust jacket (minor wear to ends of spine panel and extremities, some tape reinforcements to spine ends and edges on verso). Provenance: Jean Hillgarth (signature on front free endpaper).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, of Fleming's fifth Bond novel. It is the first Bond novel with a jacket by Richard Chopping, who went on to execute many of the subsequent Bond covers, often in collaboration with Fleming. Gilbert A5a (1.1).