Barest trace of marginal toning and bits of faint foxing, else beautiful, with no bumps to extremities. Firstly, I'm happy that the cancel culture hasn't got to these books, like the attempt with Roald Dhal. According to John Griswold, these later entries retroactively place the events of Live and Let Die in (most likely) 1952, shortly after the events of Casino Royale. Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road.

Fleming did not use class enemies for his villains, instead relying on physical distortion or ethnic identity .This ORIGINAL dustjacket has the First Printing point without the Lewis blurb printed on the front flap of the dustjacket. The jive talking in the club was definitely cringy, plus not sure what Nigger Heaven is, other than racist! During Bond’s customary visit to headquarters, Miss Moneypenny is reduced to a mere paragraph, really not much different than the last time we read about her.

He thought it was the most exciting story he had read for years, but was unsure whether it was suitable for a film. This coloring was discarded by the publishers in favor of the maroon during the production process" (Biondi and Pickard).

p89-ish – It was interesting to hear about all the trouble that Bond and Leiter’s night out in Harlem caused to the police, the CIA and the FBI.