Ian Fleming

Thunderball

Jonathan Cape

1961

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First edition, Binding A, of Thunderball, Ian Fleming's pivotal work of the series; it was here that Fleming first introduced the world to the ultimate James Bond villain, Ernest Stavro Blofeld; basis for the fourth movie in the long-running series, starring Sean Connery as 007, Claudine Auger as Domino and Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo, Spectre's No. 2.

  • Ian Fleming (English).
  • Dust jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping (English).
  • London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.
  • pp.254; [2], bank.
  • Octavo.
  • Bound in publisher’s cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine, and in original dust jacket.
  • Housed in a custom black cloth-covered clamshell box, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine.

Literature

Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A9a (1.1).

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A few small marks to cloth, else particularly crisp.

Price clipped wrapper.

Feature(s)

Dust Jacket, First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Modern first editions, Novels, Fine bindings, Mystery and Detective, Literature

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