Apr 08, 2010 - Sale 2209

Sale 2209 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 33,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
FINE COPY OF THE FIRST BOND NOVEL FLEMING, IAN. Casino Royale. 8vo, black cloth stamped with red heart in center of front cover and red lettering along spine; first issue dust jacket designed by Fleming, near perfect but for the slightest bit of toning on verso and near the very edges of panels; custom 1/4 burgundy morocco and cloth clamshell box. London: Cape, (1953)
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beautiful first edition, first issue of fleming's first james bond adventure. Steinbrunner and Penzler; Ency. of Mystery and Detection (1976); Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction (1972).