Editing Colonel Sun (section)

===Publication history===
[[Jonathan Cape]] published ''Colonel Sun'' on 28 March 1968;{{sfn|"Books in Demand in March". ''Financial Times''}} the book was 255 pages long and priced at a [[Guinea (British coin)|guinea]].{{sfn|Gray|1968|p=309}}{{efn|A [[Guinea (coin)#Twentieth century onwards|guinea]] was originally a gold coin whose value was fixed at twenty-one shillings (£1.05). By this date the coin was obsolete and the term simply functioned as a label for that sum.{{sfn|Besly|1997|p=25}} According to calculations based on the [[Consumer Price Index (United Kingdom)|Consumer Price Index]] measure of inflation, one guinea in 1968 is approximately £{{Inflation|UK|1|1968|cursign=£|fmt=c|r=-1}} in {{Inflation/year|UK}}.{{sfn|Clark|2023}}}} It was listed as the second best seller in the "Books in demand" list of the ''[[Financial Times]]'' for March and April 1968.{{sfn|"Books in Demand in March". ''Financial Times''}}{{sfn|"Books in Demand in April". ''Financial Times''}} The novel sold well and the journalist and author [[Eric Hiscock]] states that by 1980 it had sold over 500,000 copies worldwide.{{sfn|Hiscock|1980|p=1043}} The paperback version was also popular and was reprinted ten times in three years.{{sfn|Van Dover|1984|p=213}} [[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Row]] published ''Colonel Sun'' in the US on 1 May 1968;{{sfn|Champlin|1968|p=D1}} it ran to 244 pages.{{sfn|"Colonel Sun; A James Bond Adventure (by) Robert Markham". Library of Congress}} In June 1969 the book was listed seventh in ''[[The Washington Post]]''{{'}}s paperback best seller list.{{sfn|"Paperback Best Sellers". ''The Washington Post''}}