Apr 08, 2010 - Sale 2209

Sale 2209 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
A WORK OF MANY FIRSTS FLEMING, IAN. From Russia, with Love. 8vo, black cloth pictorially stamped in silver and red; dust jacket, minor scattered foxing visible on verso and a few spots on rear panel, folds lightly rubbed and rear flap fold toned. London: Cape, (1957)

Additional Details

bright first edition of the fifth bond mystery. The first novel in which Bond receives a gadget from Q-Branch, it is also considered by many fans and critics to be the best Bond novel and best movie adaptation. It is also the first of Fleming's novels to feature a dust jacket design by Richard Chopping.