8vo. (Gift inscription on front free endpaper.) Original black cloth-textured boards, blocked in white on front cover with eye and eyebrow motif, spine lettered in gilt (very minor rubbing to extremities); dust jacket (some minor discoloration to ends of spine panel on verso with slight show-through, a few cellotape reinforcements on verso along spine panel folds).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION of this collection of five Bond short stories. As well as the title story, it also includes “From a View To a Kill,” “Quantum of Solace,” “Risico,” and “The Hildebrand Rarity.” Gilbert A8a (1.1).