Bentley edition of Devil May Care for sale
Thousands of people tried to obtain one of the 300 limited edition copies offered by Penguin last week.
Designed by the high-end car manufacturer, each copy cost £750 or $1500, and sold out in minutes. Today, the first Bentley copy has appeared on AbeBooks.com offered by Pages of Boston - an excellent seller of modern first editions.
To remind you, the Bentley edition of Devil May Care is bound in Burnt Oak leather from an Italian tannery. The leather casing is stitched in the Bentley diamond pattern. The Bentley ‘Flying B’ adorns the front cover and spine. Each edition is individually identified by a number on a black lacquer machined aluminium plate. Each book block is die-cut with a car-shaped silhouette and into this die-cut hole is inserted a cast and polished 1:43 scale model of the modified R Type which Bond drove.
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