First edition of the first formal literary study of Ian Fleming's enigmatic hero.
Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $125.00
"Brainwashing and de-brainwashing have evidently taken their toll, and on his last appearance 007 is, sadly, more of a man without qualities than ever before."
Amis would later continue the James Bond series himself (as Robert Markham) after Fleming's death.
First printing. London: Jonathan Cape, (1965). 7'' x 4.75''. Original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (16s.) pictorial dust jacket designed by Jan Pienkowski, based on Richard Chopping's original art. 159, [1] pages. Light edgewear and scuffing to jacket. Light soil to bottom edge of text block, faint toning to fore-edge.
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