You Only Live Twice by FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964)

London: Pan Books, 1965. UK Paperback edition (November 1965), second printing, binding 'A', intended for export (without a printed price to front cover). Octavo (18 x11cm), pp.190; [2], advertisements. 'Hawkey' style photographic card wrappers. A clean, fine copy. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A12a (12.1).

London: Pan Books, 1965. UK Paperback edition (November 1965), second printing, binding 'B', being the FIRST film tie-in edition softcovers. Octavo (18 x11cm), pp.190; [2], advertisements. Photographic card wrappers featuring stills from the United Artists picture. Some expected toning; near fine. Although printed much earlier, this set of sheets was bound c.1967 in the movie-style covers. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A12a (12.2).

New York, NY: Signet Books, July 1965. The true first paperback edition. Signet Books' series P2712. Pp.160. Publisher's illustrated softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel, all edges tinted red. Pages a little tanned as expected, some acceptable creases and wear, reading lean. A very good copy. Published simultaneously with Pan's Export paperback and preceding the UK home market edition. Gilbert A12b (11.1).

New York, NY: MJF Books, 1995. [James Bond novel] Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's hardback in illustrated dust-wrapper. Trival sunning otherwise a fine copy. A quality hardcover reissue. Gilbert A12b(10), p.409.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. [Spy novel] Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, white endpapers. Reading crease to spine, ex-library copy with associated stamps and markings, no jacket. This is the final printing of You Only Live Twice from the original publisher Jonathan Cape. Gilbertr A12a (5).

Toronto: Pan Books, 1965. FIRST Pan paperback edition, Canadian Printing. Series No.X434. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's photographic softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel. Usual toning to cheap paperstock, covers clean, spine rolled, some reading creases; very good. Not to be confused with UK export copies also priced at 60c, the Toronto printing has "an entirely different setting of the text and is trimmed narrower" Gilbert A12a (11.1), p.400.

New York, NY: The New American Library, 1965. [Spy novel] Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xii]; 240; [4]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and yellow leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket in grey, titled in white and red. A little toning and spotting, jacket sunned to the spine. Near fine. This is the standard American uniform BCE, from the mid-1960s onwards. The penultimate full-length 007 novel, and basis for the 1967 movie starring Sean Connery as James Bond. Ian Fleming The Bibliography A12b(8).

New York, NY: New American Library, 1964. [Spy Fiction] FIRST US EDITION, Second Printing. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.240; [2], blank. Publisher's hardback yellow cloth binding blocked in two colours, red top edge, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $4.50. Bookseller ticket, a few marks within, wrapper with some chips and tears. Very good. Gilbert A12b (2).

New York, NY: Signet Books, July 1965. [Bond] The true first paperback edition. Octavo (18 x 11cm), Signet Books' series P2712. Pp.160. Publisher's illustrated softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel, all edges tinted red. Pages a little tanned as expected, book store stamp to flyleaf, some minor handling and soiling; very good indeed. Published simultaneously with Pan's Export paperback and preceding the UK home market edition. Gilbert A12b (11.1).

New York, NY: Signet Books, July 1965. [Spy Fiction] The true first paperback edition. Octavo (18 x 11cm), Signet Books' series P2712. Pp.160. Publisher's illustrated softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel, all edges tinted red. No stamps or inscriptions, pages a little tanned as expected, some minor rubbing, spine a little rolled and toned ; very good indeed. Published simultaneously with Pan's Export paperback and preceding the UK home market edition. Gilbert A12b (11.1).