FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8°. Half title (light marginal stain to one leaf). Original black cloth lettered in silver, dust-jacket by Kenneth Lewis after a design by the author (chip to foot of backstrip, some light staining). FIRST EDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY, the front free endpaper signed ''Ranfurly, 1955.'' Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly (1913-2001), author of the memoir To War with Whitaker (1994), was a friend of Ian Fleming.

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