FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Moonraker, London, 1955, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket (frayed with slight loss). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S THIRD JAMES BOND NOVEL, with "shoo" corrected to "shoot" in the penultimate line of p.10. Gilbert A3.

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8vo (188 x 125mm). Half title (faint strip of browning to left side of half title, a few leaves with marginal stains, in particular at the fore-margins of pp.62-63 and running in the lower margins from pp.83-95). Original black cloth lettered in silver, dust-jacket "devised by the author and executed by Kenneth Lewis" with price of 10s. 6d. unclipped and advertisements for "Live and Let Die" and "Casino Royale" on the lower wrapper (some loss to head of backstrip affecting letters, some fraying and creasing at upper edge of upper wrapper, some fraying at joints, some staining to lower wrapper, with a single more pronounced stain, rear turn in spotted, some spotting to part of rear endpaper). Please note that the dust-jacket has been photographed in its protective acetate wrapper which we have not removed to avoid damaging it. Provenance: "J. A." (initials to corner of half title). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S THIRD JAMES BOND NOVEL, with "shoo" corrected to "shoot" in the penultimate line of p.10. Biondi & Pickard pp.41-42; Gilbert A3.