Dr. No. First Edition In Wrapper, Second State Boards With Silhouette Of Dancing Lady. Fleming, Ian. Fiction, Modern Firsts

Jonathan Cape. 1958. First edition. Hardback in DW. Second state boards with red silhouette of dancing lady to upper board. Spine slightly knocked and has a lean, boards faded and lightly stained. Endpapers and page-edges foxed and spotted. Pages 100-128 are creased mostly along inner margins. Remains of envelope or plate to rear pastedown but no other signs of library use. Apart from faults mentioned a sound copy in wrapper that is sunned, stained, especially internally and to rear panel and is slightly worn and rubbed to extremities, frayed to head and tail of spine and has the remains of an ownership label to the middle of the front flap but is NOT price-clipped.