Ian Fleming | You Only Live Twice, 1964, uncorrected proof copy (US)

Ian Fleming

You Only Live Twice. New York: New American Library, 1964

8vo, uncorrected proof copy (US), pp. 200; [2], blank (the published book has pp. 240), proof sheets with blue-grey printed card covers, publisher's plastic comb binder, NAL review slip stapled to inside front cover, covers slightly spotted, rust residue from old paperclip

Flyleaf states 'UNREVISED... this package created so that the reader would not have to struggle with the usual long galleys... CRANES DUPLICATING SERVICE'. The existence of this US proof was noted in Gilbert's bibliography as 'likely, yet unconfirmed'; this rare copy has surfaced since.