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Jonathan Cape, 1963. Octavo. Original green wrappers with the publisher's device repeated in white, spine and front wrapper lettered in black. With proof dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed folding box. 48 pages of illustrations from black and white photos. Minor rubbing to edges; a fine copy. Extremities of the very good jacket worn with minor loss, and some sunning to the spine. Uncorrected proof. A scarce Ian Fleming proof: only 175 copies were printed, being a much lower print run than many of the James Bond proofs. This is one of two variants and is notably thinner than the published book. A proof printed on thicker paper, similar to the final books, was also issued, although some of these thicker versions did not have the plates bound in. The dust jacket, designed by Paul Davis, differs considerably to the second proof-version and the published jacket; the lettering for this proof jacket is blood red rather than the shocking pink and the spine panel is also…

A travelogue by Ian Fleming detailing his adventures in various cities around the world, originally written as a series of articles for the London Sunday Times.