Made into the 1964 film of the same title with Sean Connery as Bond and Lotte Lenya as ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb. "This is a very highly sought after title, as it is generally considered the best novel in the series and the best of the movies, as well" (Biondi & Pickard, 44). There was public agitation when 007 was reported dead. "Described in the Times Literary Supplement as most brilliant, the book was a great commercial success and helped to launch Fleming as a best-selling novelist It ended with Bond seriously wounded and nearly killed by fugu poison from the sex organs of the Japanese globe-fish While the ending was not quite Sherlock Holmes and his apparently fatal last struggle with evil at the Reichenbach Falls, Fleming had provided himself with an opportunity to remove his hero. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. The performances of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev were by all accounts magnificent. Boldly signed by Sean Connery on the title page. 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. Item Number: 112358įirst edition of the fifth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. A handsome first Impression of the first edition in Very Near Fine condition in Very Good dust-wrapper showing original price of 13s 6d, slightly chipped. Slight browning to edges of pages through age.
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