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From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming, First Edition with Dust Jacket

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A First Edition, [First Printing] of 'From Russia with Love' by Ian Fleming in Very Good condition in a Very Good condition book club dust jacket published by Jonathan Cape Limited in 1957

From Russia with Love [Bond Series Number Five] by Ian Fleming, First Edition with Dust Jacket

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Condition Summary: (Very Good/Very Good) A generally sound book with overall clean boards and pages, in a clean bright, but book club, dust jacket. All notable faults: Book has a few light marks on the boards and moderate foxing on the prelims and page ends. [book club] dust jacket has one closed tear, approximately 8 mm (3/8 of an inch) long at the head of the upper panel and small tape marks on the flaps

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Book Number B0015264
Title From Russia with Love
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] Edition identified by: Publisher's stated imprint information

Hardcover, 12 mo 195 mm (7 5/8 inches) by 135 mm (5 3/8 inches). [xii] and 13 to 253 printed pages in publisher's original black cloth with red and silver lettering and publisher's logo on the spine and red and silver gun and rose motif on the upper board, in [book club] dust jacket
Publisher(s) Jonathan Cape Limited, London, 1957

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 Five

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

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