Diamonds Are Forever

Author: FLEMING, Ian Lancaster, (1908-1964)
Title: Diamonds Are Forever
Publication: [Taipei] Central Publishing Co., 1960s

Description: [Thriller] Taiwanese Pirated edition, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.248. Bound in brown cloth hardcovers, titled in silver to the spine, with illustrated jacket design. The text in this copy reproduces the 1964 Pan paperback. The flame dust jacket artwork is adapted from the Jonathan Cape edition of Moonraker; the spine, type and rear panel are based on the early 1960s Pan paperback. Contents clean, page edges toned (cheap paper), small area of soiling to cloth at foot of spine, jacket a little chipped to spine ends, sunned to backstrip as expected. Such editions rarely survive and are now extremely difficult to acquire. This is one of the most infamous designs for the pirated editions, using the UK jacket art for the previous title 'Moonraker'. From the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His comprehensive guide to the works of Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography.

Biondi/Pickard; Firsts Vol 8 No4 (1998). Gilbert, p.4.

Seller ID: 67597

Subject: James Bond 007



Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.

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