Having a penchant for Fleming first editions and other published things Bond, I found London's Cecil Court book row not far from Leicester Square to be an exceptional place. In a little shoppe called Bell, Book & Radmall the helpful owner produced this Jonathan Cape first edition of "The Book of Bond, or Every Man his Own 007" by Tanner (Amis). What puts this edition on a higher level in my collection is its atypical dust jacket. Unlike it's American counterpart (which also occupies shelf space in my Bond anthology) this British pressing comes "with a reversible bookjacket for work in the field". When turned over, the jacket title reads as "The Bible, Revised to be Read as Literature". A surprise find and a welcome addition.

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