First edition, first issue of the final book in the James Bond collection and the last to be penned by Ian Fleming with many contemporary authors picking up the Bond mantle and continuing the series after his death. ‘Octopussy and the Living Daylights’ is a collection of short stories which were written in 1961 and 1962 and then published after Fleming’s death in 1964.
First edition, first impression, first issue (price: 10s 6d). A near-fine example in a like jacket. Minor warping to the endpapers is the only defect to mention but this is almost imperceptible.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London 1966.
