Apr 08, 2010 - Sale 2209

Sale 2209 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 50,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
FINE INSCRIBED COPY FLEMING, IAN. Moonraker. 8vo, black cloth stamped in silver; issue with "shoot" printed on page 10; book label of M. W. F. Cottrill mounted to front pastedown; fine, bright dust jacket, with only the slightest toning and rubbing to spine panel and folds; custom cloth chemise and slipcase with gilt-lettered leather spine labels. The third Bond novel. London: Cape, (1955)

Additional Details

first edition. inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper to well-known Fleming collector Eileen M. Cond: "Who cannot be easily shocked! from Ian Fleming -- 1955."