Signed by Fleming, with Rare Dust Jacket Proof
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.
Price: $22,500.00
About the item
First edition, first printing. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, skeletal hand motif to upper board in blind. With two states of the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed published state of the dust jacket, and with a fine proof pull of the jacket, variant text on front flap and back flap blank. Black morocco backed folding box. Gilbert A9.
Item #374736
An excellent copy of the first novel in the Blofeld trilogy, introducing the intenational crime conspiracy, SPECTRE. Signed by Ian Fleming on the front flyleaf.
Of the preliminary dust jacket, Gilbert notes “a very few copies of the published book came in a trial dust-jacket … likely a tiny number were produced.” Ths speciment is signed by artist Richard Chopping.
