IAN FLEMING - YOU ASKED FOR IT (CASINO ROYALE) RARE PB 1ST POPULAR LIBRARY 1955

Description: IAN FLEMING - YOU ASKED FOR IT (aka CASINO ROYALE), published by Popular Library, #660, copyright 1953, states "Popular Library Edition -- Published in April 1955" - THERE WAS ONLY ONE PRINTING OF THIS PB EDITION PUBLISHED BY Popular Library - Popular Library had not only changed the title of "Casino Royale" to "You Asked For It" without Fleming's approval but they also changed James Bond to "Jimmy Bond" - Fleming quickly fired Popular Library and then retained Perma Books as his U.S. pb publisher (who in turn then did the same thing by changing the title of "Moonraker" to "Too Hot To Handle" - causing fleming to fire Perma Books as his U.S. pb publisher and changed to Signet as his U.S. pb publisher). SHOP AND COMPARE - ANOTHER COPY OF THIS BOOK WITH A SEPERATED COVER IS LISTED FOR SALE AT $800 - SEE EBAY 163643536948 AND A WORN COPY OF THIS BOOK WITH A DAMAGE FRONT COVER IS LISTED FOR SALE AT $500 - SEE EBAY 194885026185 Book has no vertical spine creasing, no creased page corners from prior reading (small crease to a group of related pages due to poor handling/storage), no spine lean, no wear to spine tips or to left/right on spine, no tearing at spine tip corners, no cover creases (just creasing to left edge from opening of cover), hint of edge wear, almost no color rubbbing to cover (common defect with this book), green outside page edge stain has no drop spots or fading, outer page corners are sharp and square, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, hint of age darkening to page edges, no former owner's markings or used book store stamps inside, rear cover is clean. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book of an Ian Fleming 1st printing pb book. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for auction on ebay - just click on the 'see other items' link to the right of the picture. NOTE - MEDIA MAIL ROUTINELY TAKES 3-4 WEEKS (REGARDLESS OF WHAT EBAY MAY SAY - THEY DON'T CONTROL THE POST OFFICE). For U.S. buyers, both priority mail (3-5 days) and media mail (3-4 weeks) shipping options will be listed in the ebay invoice (or if the book is a paperback or small magazine both 1st class mail (5-7 days) and media mail shipping options will be listed in the ebay invoice) - SIMPLY CLICK ON THE BLUE 'OTHER SHIPPING OPTIONS' LINK IN THE INVOICE TO SEE BOTH SHIPPING OPTIONS/COST. DELIVERY CONFIRMATION IS NOT TRACKING (despite what ebay and paypal want to call it - again they don't control the U.S. post office). Delivery confirmation is merely what it says it is - it confirms delivery to prevent fraudulent chargebacks of claimed unreceived items (which is why I don't charge for delivery confirmation in the shipping costs). Also, since I print shipping labels from home (as opposed to purchasing shipping at the post office), the delivery confirmation number IS NOT SCANNED BY THE POST OFFICE AT THIS END. Therefore, in most cases, the first time that the Post Office will show anything when you check the delivery confirmation number is when the package hits your local post office/sorting center (basically the day before its delivered to you). Occasionally (about 25% of the time) a package will get scanned at the Federal Way, WA transfer station, but in the vast majority of the cases the delivery confirmation won't show anything until basically the day before you get the package. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS WON (if you would like estimates of what combined shipping costs might be for a certain group of auctions, please e-mail me before the auctions close but a very rough estimate is $.50-$1.00 per additional book for media mail, $1.00-$2.00 per additional book for priority mail, and $6.00-$7.00 per additional book for international mail). As for returns -All items are used (not new) books and therefore are sold as-is, which is why I try to provide a fairly detailed description of the item itself (i.e. what it is and what it is not) as well its specific condition, noting any significant defects (for collectible items). Book grades are provided in the posting, however book grading standards/categories very widely from seller to seller, so please do not rely solely on the grade that I have given a book or ebay's provided "condition" box description, without considering the specific condition/defects described for that particular book. I do, on occasion, miss a significant defect in an item or simply make a cut/paste error in the description (i.e. an error in the description from using a prior posting as the "shell" for this book's description), and for collectible items, if that happens, on a case-by-case basis I do issue a full refund (including the cost of return shipping) depending upon the collectible significance of the undisclosed defect.

Price: 649.99 USD

Location: Anchorage, Alaska

End Time: 2024-12-05T20:59:45.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.25 USD