First edition, second impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, 'To Tanis and Teddy Read and burn! from The Author. A very good copy in like, gently foxed jacket, not price-clipped, couple of nicks and short closed tears, a bright and sharp example. Edges foxed, sporadically affecting margins, contents clean. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco solander box. Original black boards, spine lettered in red, red heart device on front cover.

with some restoration along upper and lower edges. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket without the Sunday Times review printed on the front flap, priced at â 10s. It has been filmed twice as a feature film, the first being the 1967 spoof starring David Niven, and later as the twenty-first official Bond film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond. The full details of Bond's martini were kept until chapter seven of the book and Bond eventually named it 'The Vesper', after Vesper Lynd' (Andrew Lycett). 'Within the first few pages Fleming had introduced most of Bond's idiosyncrasies and trademarks,' which included his looks, his Bentley and his smoking and drinking habits. Casino Royale was written by Ian Fleming in Jamaica over a period of around two months, largely from his own experiences and imagination he also devised the artwork for the cover. Boldly signed by the author â from Ian Flemingâ on a card mounted to the front free endpaper.

First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.

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