FLEMING, Ian - From Russia With Love

Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. Octavo, 253pp; FIRST EDITION, First printing. Beautifully rebound (with the half-title and all blanks) in black quarter morocco & marbled boards, with raised bands and custom gilt tooling in the compartments and titles to spine. A FINE copy of one of the most successful Bond novels, in which Bond must recover a stolen Soviet encryption device from SMERSH. Fleming considered this, his fifth Bond novel, in many ways his best; and when, in 1961, President Kennedy named it among his ten favorite books, JFK s seal of approval was just the fillip that Viking, Ian s new [American] publishers, needed for his books to take off in the United States (Lycett, 383). 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). Made into the 1964 film of the same title with Sean Connery as Bond and Lotte Lenya as ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb. Book is Fine with no bookplates, inscriptions or any other previous signs of ownership.