The Spy who Loved Me. London: Cape, 1962. First Edition. Pp, 221. Publisher’s cloth-effect paper over boards with silver dagger embossing on upper board & scarlet endpapers in the pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. Brown stain to lower cover of jacket, otherwise a fine bright copy.

The ninth book in the James Bond series and the only Bond book to be written in the first person, presented as the testimony of a 23-year-old Canadian woman with whom Bond has an ill-fated affair.

In furtherance of this presence, Vivienne Michel gets a spurious credit on the title page as co-author.