Dr. No.

£2,200 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd · No longer available

The sixth Bond novel, and the first to be made into a feature film. Kingsley Amis, a keen student of the Bond novels, praised this book for ‘its unrelaxed tension, its terrifying house of evil, and the savage beauty of its main setting on a Caribbean island, a locale which Fleming made a part of himself and which always excited his pen to produce some of his best writing’. Gilbert’s second state, with the “Honeychile” design on the front cover. A very good copy, with edge-wear to the jacket, rear panel a little soiled, and some spotting to front flap and edges. Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography . A6a, 1.3.

• Year: 1958

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