A master criminal plans to subvert the US economy in the third novel, KLive and Let Die and in Diamonds Are Forever smuggling on an unprecendented scale takes Bond from one death trap to another. Agent 007 faces one of the most exciting of all his assignments in Casino Royale. In From Russia From Love SMERSH - the terrible Soviet organisation of death - plans to trap Bond with the love of a beautiful woman. Six spine-chilling thrillers starring the incomparable, indestrutable James Bond. Slight browning to edges of pages through age.

More elusive in the first printing, especially in this collectible condition.ĭecorative Laminated Boards. *(No fading to the spine.) 144 pages plus contents page with 27 titled chapters. 35c price still intact to the front cover. Slight rubbing at the spine folds and shelf-edges, minuscule nick to the lower spine edge, mild finger-pull crease to the fore-edge of the rear cover, else very tight, square and firm, and very good plus in glossy stiff-card wraps with front cover art depicting a menacing face, and a frightened woman in a negligee with a man holding her shoulder, all page edges red printed code S1762 and. A decently preserved and presentable mass-market paperback collectible. The first book featuring 007, James Bond.

'First printing, February 1960' statement to the copyright page, S1762 code and. paperback edition, first printing mass-market paperback. (New York): A Signet Book Published by The New American Library, (1960). Jackson, Who says nice things! From Ian Fleming.” After Jackson’s death in 1964 it was revealed that he had been a CIA agent, making this personal memento a compelling association of two important figures in the British/American nexus of WWII and Cold War intelligence operatives.Soft cover. Jackson, who had worked at Time magazine briefly before the war, went on to work at Life, and clearly kept in touch with the author. Jackson was the Deputy Chief at the Psychological Warfare Division at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at the time Fleming was working for Britain’s Naval Intelligence Division. Sold for $16,250.Ĭold War cloak-and-dagger machinations, epitomizing the Fleming/Bond oeuvre, is well-played by an inscribed copy of Thunderball, 1961, presented to friend Charles Douglas Jackson.

Lot 134: Ian Fleming, Thunderball, first edition, first issue, with dust jacket, presentation copy inscribed by Fleming, London, 1961.

Casino royale novel first published