You Only Live Twice
£365.00
‘You Only Live Twice’
by Ian Fleming
1st Printing, first impression
First Published 1964 by Jonathan Cape Ltd
This is a first edition/first Impression (stating “first Published 1964” versus the second state “March 1964”)
- Full bound in plated black goatskin
- Hand sewn silk end bands
- Papyrus endpapers and full gilt edges
- Bevelled boards
- Gold tooling on spine with 4 raised bands
- Slipcase covered in papyrus
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Description
You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel and twelfth book in Ian Fleming‘s James Bond series of stories. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 1964 and quickly sold out with a second printing in March of the same year.
It was the last novel published Fleming in his lifetime.
After the wedding-day murder of his wife, Tracy,[b] the Secret Service agent James Bond goes into a decline, drinking and gambling heavily, making mistakes and turning up late for work. His superior in the Secret Service, M, had been planning to dismiss Bond, but decides to give him a last-chance opportunity to redeem himself by assigning him to the diplomatic branch of the organisation. Bond is subsequently re-numbered 7777 and handed an “impossible” mission: persuading the head of Japan’s secret intelligence service, Tiger Tanaka, to share a decoding machine codenamed Magic 44 and so allow Britain to obtain information from encrypted radio transmissions made by the Soviet Union. In exchange, the Secret Service will allow the Japanese access to one of their own information sources.
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