Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography, A10a. Water staining to the inside of the dust jacket, only effecting the recto in a small area of the front cover, some rubbing and small tears to extremities and especially to the top and tail of the spine, contemporary note to front panel ?16 ap? Paper wrappers in exceedingly good condition, and internally fine, although with slight lean to text block. The rear panel does not feature 'THE TIMES' newspaper reference in capitals which therefore gives a different meaning to the phrase 'Verdicts of the times!' (Gilbert). The corners of the flaps are unclipped and the rear flap is much wider.
The front flap also features the misspelling 'Adirondacs' for 'Adirondacks' (line 6). The proof dust jacket differs to the first edition in a number of ways ?proofs are more red in colour the copyright to the front flap is markedly different and there is no 'Wilkinson Swords' credit. We shall do Ian a great dis-service if we can't get his jacket out during the next month or two? (Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography, p. libraries suppliers' travellers can only carry jackets on which to elicit orders. Proofs of the book are already being distributed. ?A letter from Michael Howard to Chopping confirms this: ?I understand from Ian that as you had upped the price, you had undertaken in return to do the job quickly, and, if we have to wait until November for the original picture, it will be the end of the year before we get colour proofs, and this will halve the chances of getting a good pre-publication sale. One of a limited number of proof copies issued with a dust jacket, many having been issued without as Richard Chopping was late with the design. Original printed paper wrappers, and rare proof dust jacket. Still reeling in the wake of Operation Thunderball, Bond had planned for his jaunt through the Adirondacks to be a period of rest before his return to Europe.Uncorrected proof copy. But when a third stranger shows – a confident Englishman with a keen sense for sizing things up – the tables are turned. After stopping at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court and being coerced into caretaking at the vacant motel for the night, Viv opens the door to two armed mobsters and realizes being a woman alone is no easy task. With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine forests of the Adirondacks. Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making – a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart. Meet James Bond, the world’s most famous spy, in these landmark 70th anniversary reissues of Ian Fleming’s classic series.
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