Ian Fleming | Diamonds are Forever, 1955, uncorrected proof copy

Ian Fleming

Diamonds are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 8vo, original pale blue wrappers titled in black, publisher's single leaf synopsis loosely inserted, collector's green half morocco clamshell box, wrappers discoloured at extremities with backstrip becoming fragile

With numerous textual differences to the published edition. One of 75 copies issued; Penzler (p. 13) records just two known proofs.

Diamonds are Forever was praised by the "hard-boiled" mystery novelist Raymond Chandler, especially for its genuine American flavour, despite being written by an Etonian Englishman.