Buy this book on-line FLEMING**, IAN: : FOR YOUR EYES ONLY - FIVE SECRET OCCASIONS IN THE LIFE OF JAMES BONDLONDON.THE BOOK CLUB,1960. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published CAPE,1960.This edition issued by THE BOOK CLUB,121 CHARING CROSS Rd,LONDON.1960,by Glidrose Productions ltd.,and copyrighted.] VG++/VG+.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - as a book club edition.Has,however,the Cape publisher's price of 15s.(of the original edn) to front inner flap of dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,with a striking 3-colour block (gilt,black and white) artwork by Cuthill,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with both black+white lettering,spine/backstrip with black+gilt letters,rear panel with book club's forthcoming titles b/w advert; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Slight chipping to top+bottom edges with some minor nicks and very miniscule loss - mainly at foot of spine/ backstrip,lower front corner rubbed with small loss and Some closed nicks/tears on top edges with miniscule loss.Top edges lightly toned with light sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges slightly more aged/toned with sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - virtually pristine - no intrusive foxing/spotting to body of text - otherwise appears unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,clean,near sharp-cornered, apple-green paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,blocked black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and with clean pastedowns and free endpapers.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus, 7-191pp [paginated] includes 5 short stories: 'From a View to a Kill','For Your Eyes Only', 'Quantum of Solace','Risico', and 'The Hildebrand Rarity'; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table.Three of these stories have been the basis for films FYEO,FaVtaK and QoS.An uncommon,early book club edn with original dw/dj.
The destruction of a Russian hideout at SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; sudden and ghastly death in the Seychelles islands and,in between,a story of love and hate in Bermuda.
These are five episodes in a short span of tough life - the life of James Bond,agent number 007 in the Secret Service.
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