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Octopussy
by Fleming, Ian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- vg+/vg-/not clipped
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
NY: New American Library, ~1960's. Vg+/vg- Dust jacket has 4cm tear to bottom right front and chips to top edge (see photo). There is a chip with loss to jacket at bottom of spine. "The last 2 by Ian Fleming" are the novellas Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Bound in black boards with orange/red titles on the spine, rifle motif in same colour on front cover. Text block top is orange/red and fore edge is rough cut. B&W line drawings throughout the text and dust jacket design are by Paul Bacon. No markings, tight.
Synopsis
Ian Fleming (1908-1964), creator of the world's best-known secret agent, is the author of fourteen James Bond books. Born in London in 1908 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he became the Reuters Moscow correspondent in 1929. In the spring of 1939, Fleming went back to Moscow as a special correspondent for the London Times . In June of that same year, he joined Naval Intelligence and served throughout World War II, finally earning the rank of Commander, RNVSR (Sp.). Much of the James Bond material was drawn directly from Fleming's experiences as an intelligence officer. Later, Fleming became a consultant on foreign affairs for the London Sunday Times , by which time he had become far better known as the creator of James Bond.
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Details
- Seller
- JKMayotte
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 50712011
- Title
- Octopussy
- Author
- Fleming, Ian
- Illustrator
- Bacon, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Black boards w orange/red titles
- Book Condition
- Used - vg+/vg-
- Jacket Condition
- not clipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- book club edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New American Library
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- ~1960's
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ian Fleming, Octopussy
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction / thrillers; thriller;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
JKMayotte
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG+/VG-
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a dust jacket that is in slightly less than Very Good Condition. Very...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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