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From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.
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FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964)
From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.
First edition, first impression of Fleming's fifth Bond novel. In a contemporary review, the Times Literary Supplement described this as Fleming's 'tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale'. It is the first Bond novel with a jacket by Richard Chopping, who went on to execute many of the subsequent Bond covers, often in collaboration with Fleming. Gilbert A5a (1.1).
Octavo. Front endpaper stamped ‘25 Apr 1957’. Publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver and metallic red, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping illustrated with sawn-off Smith & Wesson revolver placed across a red rose (minor wear to dust-jacket at corners, rear panel a little dark, faint spots on rear flap); housed in modern quarter morocco box.
From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.
First edition, first impression of Fleming's fifth Bond novel. In a contemporary review, the Times Literary Supplement described this as Fleming's 'tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale'. It is the first Bond novel with a jacket by Richard Chopping, who went on to execute many of the subsequent Bond covers, often in collaboration with Fleming. Gilbert A5a (1.1).
Octavo. Front endpaper stamped ‘25 Apr 1957’. Publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver and metallic red, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping illustrated with sawn-off Smith & Wesson revolver placed across a red rose (minor wear to dust-jacket at corners, rear panel a little dark, faint spots on rear flap); housed in modern quarter morocco box.
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