A lovely near fine copy, the binding clean and square, the contents clean and without inscriptions or stamps. A near fine copy without the jacket, housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell to a uniform design by Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Publisher's indigo blue hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers.

Perhaps though, it must also be consider a historical document a snap shot of a time, portrayed in popular fiction, showing how things have changed, from not just the story but in the way the story is told, down to the diction and attitude. It also provides James Bond with an opportunity to continue his pursuit of SMERSH, and his devotion to this cause is apparent as he “felt his spine crawl at the cold, brilliant efficiency of the Soviet machine, and at the fear of death and torture which made it work and of which the supreme engine was SMERSH - SMERSH, the very whisper of death.I am glad I was able to acquire the new Sensitivity version of LALD for as Chairman Mao said (roughly) ‘There is no such thing as Art for Art’s sake. Live and Let Die' is the second James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, set in London, the United States, and Jamaica. Solitaire is to discern whether or not he is lying, using a deck of playing cards to assist in her telepathic abilities. Fleming also used the name of the local Jamaican rufous-throated solitaire bird as the name of the book's main female character.

Dust jacket with some minor chipping to the corners and spine ends, small closed tear on the top edges, light tanning. Casino Royale (1953) • Live and Let Die (1954) • Moonraker (1955) • Diamonds are Forever (1956) • From Russia with Love (1957) • Dr.Now he's in America, learning American lingo, and finding a seat at the hippest black clubs in Harlem. Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condä. Having said that, I think this new version of LALD shows that we are all on the cusp of a brave new age of positive literature and that can only be doubleplusgood. e] In June 1955 Raymond Chandler was visiting the poet Stephen Spender in London when he was introduced to Fleming, who subsequently sent Chandler a copy of Live and Let Die. The dust jacket is in stunning, vibrant condition with no edgewear, no rips, no chips, no stains, no rubbing, and no foxing.

Beautiful clean book with a scarce NEAR FINE First Printing dust jacket in the second of the three states of the first printing (with the Kenneth Lewis Blurb Floating in the lower area of the front flap). Bond then investigates the warehouse himself and discovers that Mr Big is smuggling gold coins by hiding them in the bottom of fish tanks holding poisonous tropical fish, which he is bringing into the US. As an early Bond novel, its first issue print run was significantly smaller than later books in the series: fewer than 5300 copies, with only a portion of those including the first-state dust jacket as here. It’s just all done in the casual racism language of the day, which isn’t particularly palatable today, to say the least. Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories, and is set in London, the United States and Jamaica.Fleming didn’t have a very good idea of how Americans act or talk, as immediately Felix mentions the “joint intelligence chaps”. This is located with a space after the text on the front flap, and appears as almost floating between the text and the empty space on the rest of the flap, indicating 2nd state.