Ian Fleming | You Only Live Twice, 1964, first edition, dust-jacket

Ian Fleming

You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, first state, 8vo, original dark grey cloth (Gilbert's Binding B in Type A cloth), lettered in silver, Japanese characters on upper cover in gilt, wood-grain effect endpapers, original dust-jacket, extremities slightly bumped, dust-jacket with small closed tears at extremities and light spotting

LITERATURE:

Gilbert A12a (1.2)

Gilbert notes that Type A cloth is "far less common" for first edition, first impression, first state copies of You Only Live Twice than Type C cloth.