The Sixties Catalogue

19 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “If Anyone Can Bring It Off, You Can. Care To Have A Try, James?” 17. FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $1500. Click for more info First edition, first state, of the 12th James Bond novel—the last published in Fleming’s lifetime—set in Japan and featuring the further plots of veteran Bond villain Ernst Blofeld. You Only Live Twice was acknowledged by the press and readers alike as one of the best Bond novels. Made into the 1967 film of the same title with a screenplay by Roald Dahl, starring Sean Connery as Bond and Donald Pleasence as Blofeld. First state , with “First published 1964” on copyright page; issued concurrently with the second state. Small gift inscription. Book fresh with light foxing mainly to fore-edges; faint toning to spine, mild soiling to verso of bright dust jacket. A handsome near-fine copy. “You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face.”