FLEMING, IAN. Thunderball. London: Cape, [1961]. 8vo, original dark brown cloth-like boards; striking pictorial dust jacket after a design by Richard Chopping. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS SECRETARY, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Griffie who went through the mill! From Ian Fleming." A fine copy. Introduces S.P.E.C.T.R.E. as Bond's new adversary ("more deadly, more ruthless even than Smersh").