Friday 1 May 2020

With The Lockdown Still In Place,

I am guessing a number of people are spring cleaning,


their lofts, attics, basements and garages, and discovering treasure they had forgotten that they had, and above is a treasure worth discovering, it looks nothing special, just another Bond book read and put away, but, this is a 1955 Jonathan Cape first edition, first impression with the first state dust wrapper, which has no tears. The third James Bond novel. The first edition can be identified by the word "shoo" instead of "shoot" on page 10. Moonraker the novel is different to Moonraker the film. Fleming's book reflects a couple of topical themes from the 1950s - the villain Drax is a former Nazi and there is a nuclear rocket aimed at London, OK enough already, what is it worth? it just sold for £10,175 which is cheap! start looking in your forgotten places now, there must be others out there! but if you do not want to look but want a copy have a look here as there are a few for sale, but be prepared to pay a lot more for a copy than this one.


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