FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Moonraker . London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8° (190 x 125mm). Original black boards, lettered in silver, pictorial dust jacket by Kenneth Lewis after Ian Fleming (dust-jacket with a few creases to top edge, spine lightly faded, some light soiling). Provenance : Pat Perrey (ownership inscription).
FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Moonraker . London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8° (190 x 125mm). Original black boards, lettered in silver, pictorial dust jacket by Kenneth Lewis after Ian Fleming (dust-jacket with a few creases to top edge, spine lightly faded, some light soiling). Provenance : Pat Perrey (ownership inscription). FIRST EDITION. Moonraker is the most self-consciously autobiographical of the Bond novels to date. When Raymond Chandler signaled his approval of Fleming's previous book, Live and Let Die , 'the real importance of the friendship went beyond the mere restoration of Fleming's confidence in James Bond. It quickly seems to have changed the whole attitude of Fleming to his hero and his work and to have made him decide that his next book [ie. Moonraker ], instead of finishing off Bond for good, would go to the opposite extreme'. Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming , p. 313.
FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Moonraker . London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8° (190 x 125mm). Original black boards, lettered in silver, pictorial dust jacket by Kenneth Lewis after Ian Fleming (dust-jacket with a few creases to top edge, spine lightly faded, some light soiling). Provenance : Pat Perrey (ownership inscription).
FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). Moonraker . London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8° (190 x 125mm). Original black boards, lettered in silver, pictorial dust jacket by Kenneth Lewis after Ian Fleming (dust-jacket with a few creases to top edge, spine lightly faded, some light soiling). Provenance : Pat Perrey (ownership inscription). FIRST EDITION. Moonraker is the most self-consciously autobiographical of the Bond novels to date. When Raymond Chandler signaled his approval of Fleming's previous book, Live and Let Die , 'the real importance of the friendship went beyond the mere restoration of Fleming's confidence in James Bond. It quickly seems to have changed the whole attitude of Fleming to his hero and his work and to have made him decide that his next book [ie. Moonraker ], instead of finishing off Bond for good, would go to the opposite extreme'. Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming , p. 313.
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