MOONRAKER

256pp.Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, titled in silver, in 'flame' design dust-wrapper priced at 16s. The dust jacket is in good condition as was protected by plastic which has left cellotape marks on the inside of the dust jacket and a light line on the book's front and back cover. The top of the spine is gently creased and there is a small signature of a previous owner on the title page.

This was the final Cape printing of this novel during the author's lifetime.

Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel, so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax. In the latter half of the novel, Bond is seconded to Drax's staff as the businessman builds the Moonraker, a prototype missile designed to defend England. Unknown to Bond, Drax is German, an ex-Nazi now working for the Soviets; his plan is to build the rocket, arm it with a nuclear warhead, and fire it at London. Uniquely for a Bond novel, Moonraker is set entirely in Britain, which raised comments from some readers, complaining about the lack of exotic locations.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_(novel)