You Only Live Twice

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 First edition, first impression, first state with battered page number at the foot of pg. 190; in Gilbert's Binding A. Publisher's black cloth with gilt Japanese characters to front board, lettered in metallic silver to spine, with bamboo printed endpapers; in its original pictorial dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping featuring a poisonous toad, a dragonfly, and a pink chrysanthemum on a bamboo platform, lettered in black. Very good book, with a heavy lean to spine, bottom edge of front board lightly bumped, and some spotting to top and fore edges of text block; very good unclipped dust jacket, with some foxing to panels. Overall, a sturdy copy. Gilbert A12a (1.1). You Only Live Twice is "perhaps the most bizarre and doom-fraught of all James Bond's adventures." It is the final installation in the trilogy featuring the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, leader of the spy organization SPECTRE. After Blofeld murders Bond's young bride in the preceding On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), M throws the disheartened 007 into what seems like an impossible mission in Japan where he will once again encounter his nemesis. You Only Live Twice was the last Bond novel published during the author's lifetime.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.