Strangely, I never acquired any more First Americans since high school. but because of the specific memories associated with collecting them at that time, they're worth more to me than fine copies would be. My CR is jacketless and my Moonraker is poor, the jacket having bonded to the boards. A local library had a well-worn LALD 1st US on its shelf, whose protected dust jacket I often eyed jealously, but sadly they never retired it for their booksales in my days there. I amassed quite a few 1st Americans throughout middle school and high school: everything pictured except for the entire second row and LALD. I was quite lucky on that front, one year getting my hands on the rarest of the Signet box sets and another the Viking Thunderball you picture. I even volunteered at my town's library booksale every summer in hopes of spotting some Fleming treasure in advance. Most of these were easier to find in America than the UK firsts-at least at library book sales and used bookstores and the sorts of places I was able to scour as a kid at the tale end of the Pre-Internet Age. Does the US printing technically pre-date the UK one? Weren't Macmillan's Goldfinger's actually printed by Cape, but perhaps rejected for some reason? I can't recall the story behind it. Ah, now to the meat and potatoes! Excellent! Thank you, John.
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