You Only Live Twice

by Ian Fleming

Jonathan Cape, 1964, [First Edition], decorated endpapers, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, tape residue on front and back endpapers, minor foxing to introductory pages, gilded decoration to front cover, price-clipped dustjacket in fair condition with some rubbing, bumping, chipping and tears, some creasing, closed tears and re-enforced folds (see photographs)

“When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into eternity the girl whom James Bond had married only hours before, the heart, the zest for life, went out of Bond.  Incredibly, from being a top agent of the Secret Service, he had gone to pieces, was even on the verge of becoming a security risk.  M is persuaded to give him one last chance – an impossible mission far removed from his usual duties – and Bond leaves for Japan.
There, coming under the order of the formidable “Tiger’ Tanaka, Head of the Japanese Secret Service, the Koan-Chosa-Kyoku, he is indeed subjected to the shock treatment his condition demanded.
Shock treatment? The reader will also be subjected to it in full measure in this, perhaps the most bizarre and doom- fraught of all James Bond’s adventures.”