IAN FLEMING - CASINO ROYALE - 1ST 1954 TRUE 1ST STATE ULTRA-RARE DUST JACKET NPC

Description: IAN FLEMING - CASINO ROYALE, published by MacMillan, copyright 1953 (but published in the U.S. in 1954 as stated on the title page), First Printing (states "First Printing" on copyright page with no references to subsequent printings - there was a 2nd printing in this format that states as such), white endpapers with dark green cloth boards and dark red/orange lettering to spine and front board, $2.75 price on DJ front flap on the bottom right corner and all four corners of the flaps are not clipped. THIS IS THE TRUE 1ST STATE DUST JACKET - I HAVE HANDLED NEARLY 50 COPIES OF THIS BOOK IN DUST JACKET IN OVER 25+ YEARS AND THIS IS ONLY THE 2ND TIME THAT I HAVE HAD THE TRUE 1ST STATE DUST JACKET WITH $2.75 PRICE ON BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER ON FRONT FLAP (THE PUBLISHER QUICKLY CHANGED THE PRICE AFTER JUST A HANDFUL OF BOOKS WERE SOLD BY CLIPPING THE BOTTOM PRICE AND THEN CLIPPING THE TOP RIGHT CORNER OF THE FRONT FLAP AND PRINTING A NEW PRICE $2.95 PRICE SIDEWAYS). THE ONLY OTHER COPY OF THIS BOOK THAT I HAVE EVER HANDLED THAT THAT THE $2.75 PRICE ON THE BOTTOM CORNER WAS MISSING ABOUT 25%-33% OF THE FRONT PANEL AND SPINE AND I SOLD THAT COPY SOME 3+ YEARS AGO FOR OVER $1200. BIONDI & PICKARD REFERS TO THIS AS THE FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE BOOK: "ALL FOUR DUST WRAPPER CORNERS ARE SQUARE (UNCLIPPED), CONFORMING TO BIONDI & PICKARD'S FIRST ISSUE, DESCRIBED AS 'FIRST ISSUE OF DUST-JACKET HAS COMPLETE, SQUARE-CUT FRONT FLAP CORNERS' (BIONDI & PICKARD, PAGE 40)" J. GILBERT - IAN FLEMING - THE BIBLIOGRAPHY, PAGE 47. THE 1ST PRINTING, SECOND ISSUE HAS ANGLE-CLIPPED CORNERS ON THE DUST JACKET FLAPS AND THE $2.75 PRICE WAS REPRINTED SIDEWAYS NEAR THE TOP RIGHT ON THE FRONT FLAP. SHOP AND COMPARE - THE MUCH MORE COMMON 2ND STATE WITH DJ SPINE SUN FADING IS LISTED FOR SALE AT $1950 - SEE EBAY 125337296783 Book has just a couple of creased page corners, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, hint of dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges, couple of tiny faint glue spots near top on rfe otherwise original endpapers are clean and free from soiling or scotch tape marks, no former owner's markings or used bookseller stamps/stickers inside, no wear to board edges or corners, barest hint of wear to bottom spine tip, tiny bumped board corner, no discoloration/soiling to boards, no wear to spine or front board lettering. Dust jacket has has a closed double tear at top of spine otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, slight wear to spine tips, barest hint of wear to front flap crease (nick losses at flap crease corners), almost no edge wear, NO SPINE SUN FADING (very very very common defect with this DJ - the red and often the green on spine is almost always found sun faded), no soiling to front panel, no foxing to white rear panel, slight dust rubbing to white rear panel, no color rubbing to panels. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in VG+/FINE- condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of an Ian Fleming U.S. 1st printing 1st state hardcover book. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for auction on ebay - just click on the 'see other items' link to the right of the picture. NOTE - MEDIA MAIL ROUTINELY TAKES 3-4 WEEKS (REGARDLESS OF WHAT EBAY MAY SAY - THEY DON'T CONTROL THE POST OFFICE). 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Therefore, in most cases, the first time that the Post Office will show anything when you check the delivery confirmation number is when the package hits your local post office/sorting center (basically the day before its delivered to you). Occasionally (about 25% of the time) a package will get scanned at the Federal Way, WA transfer station, but in the vast majority of the cases the delivery confirmation won't show anything until basically the day before you get the package. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS WON (if you would like estimates of what combined shipping costs might be for a certain group of auctions, please e-mail me before the auctions close but a very rough estimate is $.50-$1.00 per additional book for media mail, $1.00-$2.00 per additional book for priority mail, and $6.00-$7.00 per additional book for international mail). 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Price: 2899.99 USD

Location: Anchorage, Alaska

End Time: 2024-12-15T06:35:07.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.99 USD