Moonraker.

FLEMING, Ian.

Item Number: 2881

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.

First edition of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light toning to the spine, much less than usually encountered.

Noël Coward read Moonraker in proof in Jamaica and pronounced, ‘It is the best thing Fleming has done yet, very exciting His observation is extraordinary and his talent for description vivid" (Lycett, 253-54). Adapted to the 1979 film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Roger Moore as James Bond.