Ian Fleming | The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962, first edition, variant issue

Ian Fleming

The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, variant issue with quad mark on title-page, original dark grey/brown cloth, lettered in silver, design to upper cover in silver and blind, red endpapers, DUST-JACKET, collector's black cloth clamshell box, small tear to upper cover, minor wear to head of spine

This is the variant issue of the first impression, with the printer’s quad mark (a spacer between the type) appearing on the title page. Gilbert notes that “no priority between the two variants has been established... as few as one in ten copies exist in this state within the first print run”.