Books

Book is clean, square and tight. A solid copy. The corners of dj clipped but shows 13s. 6d. net price on front flap. Small store sticker bottom of back board. Pieces missing top and bottom of spine ends and to lower outer corner of front of dj. Has some closed tears and wear along top edge of dj. Dj is original. Has credit to author and executed by Kenneth Lewis bottom of front flap. Has "author's skill" to final line of Irish Times review on the rear panel of dj.

Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories, and is set in London, the US and Jamaica. It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. In the novel, Bond must defeat a dangerous drug lord with plans to finance Soviet espionage in America. The story was developed during Fleming's second stay in Jamaica, where he had extensive knowledge of the local scenery, wildlife, and underworld.