You Only Live Twice.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(London): Jonathan Cape (1964). 8vo. Orig. cloth-effect papered boards with Japanese characters in gilt on front cover and silver title to spine. In the original (but price-clipped) dustjacket designed by Richard Chopping (slightly soiled). (256pp.). With bamboo-patterned endpapers. 1st edition. Some light foxing mostly confined to prelims end pages and edges otherwise fine. NOTE: The twelfth book in the Bond series the final instalment in the Blofeld trilogy and the last Bond book to be published in Fleming's lifetime. M sends Bond on a diplomatic mission to Japan where he again encounters the villainous Blofeld this time in the guise of Dr Guntram Shatterhand.