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London: Thomson Newspapers Ltd., 1962. Pp.39. Newspaper supplement format, illustrated, with colour-printed covers. 'The Living Daylights' appears on pages 23–32, with an illustrated title piece. It is the first publication of this James Bond 'novelette', and also the first illustrated edition. An important printing. Some very light handling; fine. This periodical appearance, being a newspaper insert, is a scarce and fragile item, many of which simply did not survive. An unusually morose James Bond is assigned sniper duty to help a defector known as "272" escape from East Berlin. The story was later published in the collection 'Octopussy and The Living Daylights'. In the 60s, under Ian Fleming's direction, The Sunday Times Magazine invented the concept of a colour supplement and catalogued the cultural trends and realignment of the nation's image; this colour supplement defined the genre for a generation, and this, the very first issue, featured some of the key names now forever…

A posthumous collection of short stories, featuring the character James Bond.