High Time to Kill

by Ian - Benson Fleming, Raymond

$1,800 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. Octavo. Original blue wrappers, printed in black. A fine copy. Uncorrected proof copy of the first US edition, published simultaneously in the UK. This is one of the more elusive Benson items: no proof copies were issued in the UK for any of Benson's James Bond titles, and only a handful of proofs appeared in the US. This copy has pleasing provenance: from the library of author, publisher, and Ian Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler,

• Binding: Wrappers

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