Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus PLUS. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for sale. Overall a VG+ book of an Ian Fleming 1st printing pb book. Book has no vertical spine crease (faint stress mark only) with publisher irregularity on the spine, no creased page corners from prior reading (couple of related crease page corners due to poor handling/storage), right outer page edges are nearly square, right cover edge does not quite extend to page block edge (manufacturing defect related to the spine defect), no spine lean, no cover chipping, small crease to bottom right corner on cover, no wear to left/right on spine, almost no wear to spine tips, no edge wear, no color rubbing to cover, red outside page edge stain has no drop spots or fading, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, slight age darkening to page edges, no former owner's markings or used book store stamps inside, rear cover is clean - no dust soiling and no color transfer. IAN FLEMING - FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE, published by Signet, #S1563, copyright 1957, 'First Printing, September, 1958' - THERE WAS ONLY ONE PRINTING OF THIS PB EDITION WITH THIS COVER ART - the 2nd and later printings had a more generic cover art with a single color background and a very small picture at the bottom portion of the cover - that cover format was used for the next 20+ printings into the early 1970s). Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) Size: 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' Tall Octavo. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. In the final novel, Bond meets perhaps the greatest criminal of them all, Goldfinger, a man who will stop at nothing to dominate the world. No finds 007 in the Caribbean, an idyll of the sun and sand soon to be marred by the presence of a deadly villain - a villain with an articulated steel hand. A master criminal plans to subvert the US economy in the third novel, KLive and Let Die and in Diamonds Are Forever smuggling on an unprecendented scale takes Bond from one death trap to another. Agent 007 faces one of the most exciting of all his assignments in Casino Royale. In From Russia From Love SMERSH - the terrible Soviet organisation of death - plans to trap Bond with the love of a beautiful woman. Six spine-chilling thrillers starring the incomparable, indestrutable James Bond.

Slight browning to edges of pages through age.

From russia with love by ian fleming