Jonathan Cape. 1956 (257 pages): Good The combination of a primarily black-printed jacket on thin paper conspires to leave this particular title very hard to find in better than good condition. With this in mind, this is a good condition example, with the correct first edition jacket [as denoted by the extra two lines of text pointing to press reviews of Moonraker and Live & Let Die on the back panel of DJ]. This example presents a strong fuchsia and orange hues with no spine fade particularly well. Jacket is UNCLIPPED, and is potentially in 'proof-state'  - owing to lack of decorative diagonal clips normally applied to each corner of the jacket. Jacket has wear - including small splits to the tip of the top spine folds and a longer split along the fold hinging the back of the cover to the spine. There is also a horizontal crease along the top. [NOTE: Jacket will be supplied in a protective sleever which will pull together any lifting split edges to ensure it looks better than on these photos]. Book itself is in superb condition - clean, square and unbumped, with no lean. Inner pages are all in excellent white condition, without typical foxing or spotting. Annotation and mark-free; a really super example. Clean page block, with barely any evidence of daylight exposure. This 4th book was early enough in the series to still be printed in minicule numbers: the first impression print run was just 14,604 [Gilbert]. Altogether this is a very good condition example of a numerically scarce book - one which increasingly difficult to obtain in collectible condition.