[FLEMING, IAN]. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, BINDING A. Hardcover with dust jacket; contained in velvet-lined clamshell case with gilt titles to spine; octavo (19.5 x 12.5 x 2.5 cm); pp. 252. English text. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, upper board blocked with eye and eyebrow motif in white, spine lettered in gilt; supplied with the original illustrated dust jacket, complete with '15s net' price intact; half-title. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight, secure, and square. Publisher’s original black cloth clean and well-preserved; white eye and eyebrow motif to the upper board intact and gilt lettering to the spine remaining bright. Contents fresh and clean, without previous ownership markings. The original unclipped dust jacket with some very faint toning and light creasing to the front top edge.
Notes: An excellent copy of Fleming’s first collection of James Bond short stories. First-impression issue point with “Laurens jaune” for “Laurens Jane” on p. 17, line 21. [Gilbert A8a(1.1)].
