FLEMING | Thrilling Cities, 1963, first edition, presentation copy

IAN FLEMING

THRILLING CITIES. LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1963

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST STATE, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (“To Dick | The great companion | from | Ian”) on title-page, 46 (of 48) pages of photographic illustrations, original white buckram backed boards, lettered in gilt, black endpapers, top edge stained in black, DUST-JACKET, collector’s red cloth folding case

A presentation copy of Fleming’s five-week round-the-world travelogue written for the Sunday Times. This copy is inscribed by Fleming to his travelling companion Richard Hughes.

LITERATURE:

Gilbert A16a (1.1)