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The Jon Gilbert Collection

Ian Fleming | You Only Live Twice, 1964, uncorrected proof, production-used copy, Kingsley Amis's copy, with his notes and annotations

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September 22, 03:09 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Ian Fleming

You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964


8vo, UNCORRECTED PROOF, PRODUCTION-USED COPY, light green textured card covers, collector's green half morocco clamshell box


KINGSLEY AMIS'S COPY, with extensive annotations to the text, and two sheets of manuscript notes inserted. Amis was a colleague of Ian Fleming and a fellow Cape author, who proofread the novel for the publisher. This copy was also used by Amis when compiling The James Bond Dossier (Cape, 1965).

Gilbert A12a 'Uncorrected Proof Copies', p. 338