Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FLEMING, IAN. Casino Royale. 8vo, publisher's black cloth with red heart stamped on front cover, and red lettering on spine, slight lean; tape ghost or similar adhesive residue to front and rear endpaper likely from earlier protective cover (now absent), ex-collection Adrian Homer Goldstone with his pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of the first James Bond novel. Pleasing copy in crisp, clean binding. Gilbert A1a. London: Jonathan Cape, (1953)