Overall a VG- book of an Ian Fleming 1st printing pb book. Book has no vertical spine creasing, one creased page corner, no spine lean, slight wear to spine tips, no tearing at spine tip corners (common defect with these Signet James Bond books), no front cover creases, no wear to left/right on spine, no edge wear, no color rubbing to cover, red outside page edge stain has no drop spots or fading, outer page corners are sharp, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, hint of age darkening to page edges, no former owner's markings or used book store stamps inside, rear cover is clean but bottom left corner on rear cover torn off (probably was used as a bookmark at one point). PB PUBLISHER - POPULAR LIBRARY/PERMA BOOKS). NO, AND LATER WOULD ISSUE PRINTINGS OF THE 1ST 4 FLEMING BOOKS THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN PUBLISHED BY ANOTHER U.S. THIS WAS IAN FLEMING'S FIRST BOOK, BUT WAS ACTUALLY THE 4TH BOOK PUBLISHED BY SIGNET (WHOM STARTED PUBLISHING IAN FLEMING'S BOOKS WITH FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE, THEN DR.

IAN FLEMING - CASINO ROYALE, published by Signet, #S1762, copyright 1953, 'First Printing, February, 1960' - THERE WAS ONLY ONE PRINTING OF THIS PB EDITION WITH THIS COVER ART - the 2nd and later printings had a more generic cover art with a single color background and a very small picture at the bottom portion of the cover - that cover format was used for the next 20+ printings into the early 1970s). Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' Tall Octavo. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. In the final novel, Bond meets perhaps the greatest criminal of them all, Goldfinger, a man who will stop at nothing to dominate the world. No finds 007 in the Caribbean, an idyll of the sun and sand soon to be marred by the presence of a deadly villain - a villain with an articulated steel hand. 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.

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