The Heart of Japan

by Ian Fleming / Bondiana, Alexander Campbell

$55 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

London: Longmans, Green and Company Ltd. 1962. Travel / history FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo 22 x 14cm , pp.viii; 298; x; index. Publisher's white cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Small bump at crown else a fine, fresh copy. A James Bond source book, singled out by Ian Fleming as a research volume for his novel 'You Only Live Twice' and listed as 'recommended reading' in his own copy. These Longmans firsts are much less common than copies issued under their

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