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| Book Number | B0015260 |
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| Title | Casino Royale |
| Author(s) | Author: Fleming, Ian [Lancaster] Ian [Lancaster] Fleming (1908 to 1964)—British author and journalist, born in Mayfair, London, best known for his twelve novels and nine short stories about James Bond. He also wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books |
| Edition and Format | First Edition, [First Printing] —Book edition identified by: Publisher's stated imprint information. Dust jacket edition identified by: Priced 10s. 6d on the front flap, Front flap has blurb and jacket devised by the author, rear flap blank except for Casino Royale and price at the foot and lower panel has a drawing of author and blurb about his life Hardcover, Octavo (20-25 cm high). 218 printed pages in publisher's original black cloth with red lettering on the spine and red heart on the upper board, in dust jacket |
| Publisher(s) | Jonathan Cape Limited, London, 1953 Jonathan Cape Limited—(Founded in 1919) British publisher founded in 1919 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879-1960), the son of a builder who started as an apprentice in the book trade. The company was initially named Jonathan Page and Company (Page was his mother's maiden name) and this changed to Jonathan Cape in 1921. Its most books and authors are probably: T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, the later Roald Dahl books, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches, the James Bond series by Ian Fleming and more recently Anita Brookner, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie. It is currently an imprint of Random House. |
| Series | Bond Series Number One Bond Series—A series of espionage novels and short stories (Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia, with Love. Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories), Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun and 1966 Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories) by Ian Fleming featuring Commander James Bond, (KCMG, RNVR), an officer of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The film adaptations form longest running English language film franchise to date, starting with Dr. No in 1962. The series contains 14 books. The first book was originally published in 1953 and the last book was originally published in 1966 |
| Content | Content Monsieur Le Chiffre is the treasurer of a Soviet-backed trade union and running a baccarat game in the casino at Royale-les-Eaux, France, in order to recover union money he lost. Bond is assigned the defeat of Le Chiffre, in the hope that his debts will provoke Soviet espionage agency SMERSH to kill him …. |
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