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Thrilling Cities
by FLEMING Ian
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 unclipped dust jacket has a very sunned spine, the red has almost faded completely to white, short tears at corners, gift inscription to verso of fep facing half title, small rubber name stamp top corner of half title, otherwise tidy used copy, some faint foxing to the spine cloth, 223pp + plates, Ian Fleming on some of the world's exotic cities. First Edition. Quarter cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
Synopsis
Thrilling Cities is the title of a collection of non-fiction travel articles by James Bond creator Ian Fleming. The book was published by Glidrose Productions first in Great Britain in 1963, followed by an American edition in 1964. The book is a collection of articles Fleming wrote for the London Sunday Times, based on two trips he took between 1959 and 1960 at the behest of Times travel editor Leonard Russell. The book version includes material edited out of the original articles.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005733
- Title
- Thrilling Cities
- Author
- FLEMING Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Ian Fleming James Bond Oo7 007 Travel Writing Hong Kong, Macao, Tokyo, Hamburg, New York, Vienna & Monte Carlo
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION;
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