Ian Fleming library in The James Bond 007 Museum Sweden Nybro Casino Royale Ian Flemings first book first impression first print 1953 in The James Bond 007 Museum Sweden Nybro Item specifics. New in The James Bond 007 Museum Nybro. Sweden.    Casino Royale Ian Flemings first book first impression first print 1953 in The James Bond 007 Museum First Edition 1953 Ian Fleming James Bond Casino Royale  BY IAN FLEMING LONDON PUBLISHED, JONATHAN CAPE 1953

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In the novel that introduced James Bond to the world, Ian Fleming’s agent 007 is dispatched to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux. His mission? Bankrupt a ruthless Russian agent who’s been on a bad luck streak at the baccarat table. One of SMERSH’s most deadly operatives, the man known only as “Le Chiffre,” has been a prime target of the British Secret Service for years. If Bond can wipe out his bankroll, Le Chiffre will likely be “retired” by his paymasters in Moscow. But what if the cards won’t cooperate? After a brutal night at the gaming tables, Bond soon finds himself dodging would-be assassins, fighting off brutal torturers, and going all-in to save the life of his beautiful female counterpart, Vesper Lynd. Taut, tense, and effortlessly stylish, Ian Fleming’s inaugural James Bond adventure has all the hallmarks that made the series a touchstone for a generation of readers

Ian Flemings Books Casino Royale (1953) Live And Let Die (1954) Moonraker (1955) Diamonds Are Forever (1956) From Russia With Love (1957) Doctor No (1958) Goldfinger (1959) For Your Eyes Only (1960) Thunderball (1961) The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) You Only Live Twice (1964) The Man With The Golden Gun (1965) Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966) The Royal flatbed typewriters were the only unique design that the Royal company put on the market. But when it came to work horses, the company introduced one price winner after the other for decades. And from the 1930s on, the line included portables. The Quiet De Luxe was the flagship for many years. In the late 1940s Royal had the Quiet De Luxe redesigned by Henry Dreyfuss who came up with the model shown on this page. It is not the kind of machine that deserves a place in a museum for antique typewriters, except that this one is... made of gold. Not solid gold, but plated. The gold-plated machine was produced in a limited edition and sold at a considerable price. Apparently, one of them was owned by author Ian Fleming. Courtesy of: Robert collection Ian Fleming, the father of James Bond Ian Fleming was born in 1908. He was a British writer who wrote books about an English spy called James Bond with the codename 007. The 00 stands for that he’s got license to kill anyone, anytime, anywhere. At the time of his writing the cold war was at its peak.The cold war was also one reason why his books became as successful as they did. Ian Flemming wrote twelve books about the spy James Bond. In 1964 Ian Fleming died and at that time only two James Bond films had been produced. It was the movies that made James Bond famous worldwide. James Bond Actors There’s been five actors playing Mr Bond more than one time: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Many people have different opinions which of them is the real Bond. Most of them say it’s Sean Connery because he was first playing Bond. I think Pierce Brosnan is best as James Bond  James Bond James Bond works for the British government and gets his missions from them. The stories about James Bond are all about how he tricks all his enemies and gets all the nice women. His enemies are often Russian criminals. This seems to be a common action story but the Bond films are special. James Bond is never stressed or scared. Even if he is in a very critical situation like jumping after an aeroplane which is falling to the ground climb into the plane and fly away with it. This seems to be very dangerous but for Mr Bond it’s a piece of cake. At his base in London somewhere he’s got this guy who helps him called Q. He’s participated in almost every bond movie. He produces lots of gadgets in his laboratory, which are supposed to help Mr Bond on his missions. In every film he gets a new car from Q. Q always tells bond to be careful with the car and he’s like yeah yeah and crashes the car in every film. We also have this woman called moneypenny, who seems to be in love with Mr Bond but never gets him. Another classical character in the bond films is one of his enemies who is a very big man called Jaws. He’s got metal teeth and is very strong but he’s not very smart so he always screws up and falls out of aeroplanes without a parachute but always survives. He never says anything and no one knows why. One exemption for that is in the film moonraker when he becomes friend with Mr Bond says cheers with a champagne glass in his hands. Mr Bond also has some things he says in every film like “Hi my name is Bond, James Bond” and “I want dry martini shaken not stirred”. All these things are classical for almost every bond film. Some other classical things in the bond films are all the sponsors that want their names in the film. In the early movies Mr Bond always drove an Aston Martin car but in today’s movies he drives a BMW. He’s always got an Ericsson cellphone and he always drinks Bollinger Champagne. Why did these companies pay money to have their name in the film? Some people have Mr Bond as an idol and they want to be alike him and hopefully they will use the same champagne or the same car as he does. That may sound very farfetched but they actually make more money out of this then they pay for having their name in the films.

First Edition 1953 Ian Fleming James Bond Casino Royale Dominic winter book auctions in Gloucestershire. Ian Flemings book Casino Royale sold for 19000 GBP. Dominic winter book auctions in Gloucestershire. Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st ed., 1st impression, 1953, original. Ian Flemings Literary Career began with Casino Royale, published in 1952, ... 4728 copies were sold within a month, reviews were favourable, and a British ... The 1953 book, which sold for £4,000 more than expected, was the top lot at a sale at which Live and Let Die - the second Bond novel - went for £6,600. A copy of Moonraker, the third in the series, sold for £7,200. Auctioneer Dominic Winter said "the strikingly colourful" Bond first editions had "always been one of the surest certainties over the last 30 years". "The 007 film industry has helped that impetus by drawing in thousands of new fans keen to buy into the James Bond fantasy," he said. It is thought the highest price for a Bond first edition was the £22,750 a signed copy of From Russia With Love fetched at Bloomsbury Auctions in London in 2004. A signed first edition of Casino Royale is believed to have sold for £21,000, also at Bloomsbury, the following year 2005. First attempt: "Scent and smoke and sweat hit the taste buds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning" Second try: "Scent and smoke and sweat can suddenly combine together and hit the taste buds with an acid shock at three o'clock in the morning" Finally (and satisfied): "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning". So began Casino Royale, the first adventure of James Bond, completed in March 1952 and published the following year. Ian Fleming was 43. Although he had experience of journalism, this was his first attempt at a book.   He sent it to his friend, the poet William Plomer, who in turn recommended it to Jonathan Cape, publishers. 4,750 copies were sold within a month, reviews were favourable, and a British cultural hero was born.   Live and Let Die followed the next year, 1954, Moonraker in 1955, and thereafter a Bond title a year was published until Ian Fleming's death in 1964.   Fleming maintained his job at the Sunday Times, where he was foreign manager. He would ask the foreign correspondents, such as Anthony Terry in Berlin, for help with details about, for example, trains or local geography. He contributed a chapter on 'Foreign News' to the Kemsley Manual of Journalism. From 1953 - 6 he wrote the Atticus column in the Sunday Times, writing about a range of obscure incidents and interesting facts and mild gossip.   Keeping true to his promise made at the end of the war, he did return to Jamaica, and he built a modest bungalow in a beautiful position on the North shore. He named it Goldeneye. Somehow he persuaded his employers to allow him 2 months a year off to go to Jamaica, and so it was there, in January and February every year from 1952, that he wrote his novels.   ...while I still do a certain amount of writing in the midst of my London life, it is on my annual visits to Jamaica that all my books have been written. CASINO ROYALE 1953, one of the James Bond first editions    Published by Jonathan Cape in London in 1953, with the essential 'First Published 1953' to the inner page, with no later titles stated, this is not the book club edition, not the US edition and not a later printing - this is the first printing of the  James Bond adventure.   First Edition 1953 Ian Fleming James Bond Casino Royale Only BY IAN FLEMING LONDON PUBLISHED, JONATHAN CAPE 1953   Ian Fleming's 'CASINO ROYALE 1953' published byJonanthan Cape, London 1953. CASINO ROYALE 1953 Live And Let Die (1954) MOONRAKER (1955) Diamonds Are Forever (1956) From Russia With Love (1957) Doctor No (1958) GOLDFINGER (1959) For Your Eyes Only (1960) THUNDERBALL (1961) THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1962) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) You Only Live Twice (1964) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1965) Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966)   Ian Fleming's James Bond Titles Title Published Film Released  1. Casino Royale 1953 1967 and 2006  2. Live and Let Die 1954 1973  3. Moonraker 1955 1979  4. Diamonds Are Forever 1956 1971  5. From Russia With Love 1957 1963  6. Doctor No 1958 1962  7. Goldfinger 1959 1964  8. For Your Eyes Only (short stories) 1960  From A View To A Kill 1985  For Your Eyes Only 1981  Quantum of Solace 2008  Risico  The Hildebrand Rarity  9. Thunderball 1961 1965  10. The Spy Who Loved Me 1962 1977  11. On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1963 1969  12. You Only Live Twice 1964 1967  13. The Man With The Golden Gun 1965 1974  14. Octopussy & The Living Daylights (short stories) 1966  Octopussy 1983  The Living Daylights 1987  The Property Of A Lady  Ian Fleming's Non-Bond books Title Published Film released  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1964 1968  Thrilling Cities 1963  The Diamond Smugglers 1957  James Bond, the Author The Origin of the Name James Bond "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could think of. James Bond seemed perfect." -Ian Fleming While he may be the world's most famous, glamorous secret agent, let's face it, his name is pretty dull. In a way it is fitting, Fleming achieved exactally what he wanted to with the name. He actually found it sitting on his bookshelf in the author of a book entitled "Bird's Of The West Indies." And like that, history was made! James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond.

Published 13th April 1953 by Jonathan Cape in London CASINO ROYALE 1953 Published in 1953 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth & red lettering & heart on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1953" Dust wrapper priced at 10s.6d Rear panel has pencil drawing of Ian Fleming by Bartlett, with blurb about Fleming's life below Front flap has blurb with jacket credit immediately below There should be NO Times review Rear flap is blank but for title, author, Cape & price in bottom left corner 4,728 copies were bound up, a large number of which went to public libraries Published 5th May 1954 by Jonathan Cape in London LIVE AND LET DIE 1954   Published in 1954 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth & gilt lettering & gilt medallion on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1954" Dust wrapper priced at 10s.6d There are 3 states of 1st edition dust wrappers First State : No credit for jacket design on front flap Second State : 2 line credit is positioned midway between blurb end & price Third State : 2 line credit is positioned directly under the blurb 7,500 copies were printed of the 1st edition Published 7th April 1955 by Jonathan Cape in London MOONRAKER 1955 Published in 1955 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth & silver lettering Verso title page states "First Published 1955" Dust wrapper priced at 10s.6d There is a "semi issue point" Page 10 last line shoot / shoo No priority established but I believe shoot to be preferable There are also 2 paper thicknesses One text block measures 19mm whilst the other is 15mm The 15mm is poorer quality and prone to browning The 1st print run was 9,900 copies Published 26th March 1956 by Jonathan Cape in London Diamonds Are Forever 1956 Published in 1956 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth & silver lettering Verso title page states "First Published 1956" Dust wrapper priced at 12s.6d The 1st print run was 14,700 copies From Russia With Love 1957 Published 8th April 1957 by Jonathan Cape in London From Russia With Love 1957 Published in 1957 by Jonathan Cape in London Black decorated cloth Verso title page states "First Published 1957" Dustwrapper priced at 13s.6d The 1st set of sheets were of poor print quality and rejected by Cape These were later sent to the book club This means that, theoretically, the '1st printing' is the book club edition Note: The Cape sheets have Cape name and logos on title page Those with 'Book Club' are later printings and the above does not apply The Cape edition was published first, and is the first edition The 1st print run was 15,000 copies Published 31st March 1958 by Cape in London Dr No (1958) Published in 1958 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth with or without "dancing girl" figure Verso title page states "First Published 1958" Dust jacket priced at 13s.6d There is no priority established for the dancing girl From experience, the ones without the figure appear to be rarer The 1st print run was 20,000 copies Published 23rd March 1959 by Jonathan Cape in London GOLDFINGER 1959 Published in 1959 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth gilt lettering , skull embossed on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1959" Dustwrapper priced at 15s The 1st print run was 24,000 copies Published 11th April 1960 by Jonathan Cape in London For Your Eyes Only (1960) Published in 1960 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, gilt lettering , eye design on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1960" Dust wrapper priced at 15s The 1st print run was 21,712 copies Published 27th March 1961 by Jonathan Cape in London THUNDERBALL (1961) Published in 1961 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, gilt lettering , skeletal hand on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1961" Dust wrapper priced at 15s The 1st print run was 50,938 copies Published 16th April 1962 by Jonathan Cape in London THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1962) Published in 1962 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, silver lettering , with a dagger on the front board Verso title page states "First Published 1962" Dust wrapper priced at 15s There are copies with a quad mark between the E & M of Fleming on the title page This mark is not on the proof sheets and was just a spacer that worked loose during the print run No priority officially established and not of bibliographical importance, but copies with quad mark are very much scarcer and consequently fetch a premium The 1st print run was 30,000 copies Published 1st April 1963 by Jonathan Cape in London On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) Published in 1963 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, silver lettering , track design on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1963" Dust wrapper priced at 16s The 1st print run was 45,000 copies There is a signed limited edition of this title 250 numbered copies - but unnumbered copies also turn up Jonathan Cape's records suggest there should be approx 43 unnumbered Ten of these were given to Ian Fleming the rest intended as presentation copies The 1st print run was 45,000 copies Published 16th March 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London You Only Live Twice (1964) Published in 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, silver lettering , Japanese lettering on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1964" Note: "First Published March 1964" is second state Dust wrapper priced at 16s The 1st print run was 56,000 copies Published 1st April 1965 by Jonathan Cape in London THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1965) Published in 1965 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, gilt lettering Verso title page states "First Published 1965" Copies exist with a gun in gilt on the front boards  Dust wrapper priced at 18s The 1st print run was 82,000 copies Published 23rd June 1966 by Jonathan Cape in London Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966) Published in 1966 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, gilt lettering Verso title page states "First Published 1966" This title was repriced in order to clear remaining copies Contrary to popular opinion it was not actually remaindered A London bookseller bought the last 32,000 copies directly. He gradually sold them for £1.50 each Copies with unclipped jackets and no signs of a price sticker are preferred Dust wrapper priced at 10s.6d The 1st print run was 50,000 copies

Ian Flemings (James Bond) liv blir filmatiserad igen!  James Bond Creator, Ian Fleming, to Be Played by James McAvoy. James Bond Creator; Ian Fleming to be played by James McAvoy                                  Ian Flemings liv blir film igen! 3 gången gillt? Ian Lancaster Flemings böcker har gett upphov till en upp 14 filmer. Med  47 år på nacken är James Bond-serien den tidsmässigt längsta filmsviten någonsin, men Ian Fleming hann bara se två filmer innan han dog. Ian Fleming som filmen heter kommer att produceras av Leonardo DiCaprios produktionsbolag Appian Way. Något som öppnar för att DiCaprio själv kommer att spela huvudrollen. Manusförfattaren heter John Orloff (A Mighty Heart) och har tidigare bland annat skrivit två avsnitt av Band of Brothers. Ingen regissör har tillsatts ännu. Det är inte första gången Ian Flemings liv blir filmad, redan 1989  kom filmen "Goldeneye" med Charles Dance som Ian Fleming och 1990 kom "Spymaker "med inte minfdre än Sean Connerys son Jason Connery som filmade Ian Flemings liv. Vad man kan säga om dessa två filmer är väl att info. om Flemings liv är tvivelaktigt uppbygd, vi får se hur denna landar hos kritikerna.ttp://www.007mus SPYMAKER Jason Connery Utgiven 1990  längd 100 min Regissör: Ferdinand Faifax Goldeneye: En spion av heder - Charles Dance  Utgiven1989 längd 104 min  Regissör: Don Boyd Scottish cutie, James McAvoy, seen with Keira Knightley in Atonement, showed he could play both sensitive and sophisticated, as well as gruff and tumble, which is good since he'll need both, as he's been picked to portray Ian Fleming in an upcoming biopic of the man who brought James Bond to life, The man whose own experiences as both a playboy and as a commander in the Royal Navy inspired his divining James Bond into being. We first get introduced to the dashing and debonair secret agent, 007, in Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale. The Bond franchise has been hugely successful, and we would think so would a movie about its creator, who died in 1964. With that success, though, comes the devoted legions who are protective about its main character, who, it is not a stretch to think, is Fleming. Geoffrey Boothroyd  and   Ian Fleming  picture from Ivan Morelius           Geoffrey Boothroyd (Q) and Ian Fleming author of James Bond     Writer Ian Fleming (1909-1964) created the character of James Bond 007                                         Pinewood Studios  Sir WinstonChurchill. Prime Minister twice  (1940-45 and 1951-55)  Ian Flemings boss M Pierce Brosnan Took 007 into 21st Century The James Bond Archives avaible in James Bond 007 Museum Nybro Sweden  Pinewood Studios

Ian Flemings  (James Bond) liv blir filmatiserad igen!   Ian Fleming

Goldeneye: En spion av heder - Charles Dance  Utgiven1989 längd 104 min  Regissör: Don Boyd

SPYMAKER Jason Connery Utgiven 1990  längd 100 min Regissör: Ferdinand Faifax

CASINO ROYALE (1953) by Ian Fleming   The Life of Ian Fleming (1908-1964) Page 2

Royal Quiet De Luxe gold First year of production: 1947 Company: Royal Typewriter Company , New York , USA Serial nr: 88-1956822 The Royal flatbed typewriters were the only unique design that the Royal company put on the market. But when it came to work horses, the company introduced one price winner after the other for decades. And from the 1930s on, the line included portables. The Quiet De Luxe was the flagship for many years. In the late 1940s Royal had the Quiet De Luxe redesigned by Henry Dreyfuss who came up with the model shown on this page. It is not the kind of machine that deserves a place in a museum for antique typewriters, except that this one is... made of gold. Not solid gold, but plated. The gold-plated machine was produced in a limited edition and sold at a considerable price. Apparently, one of them was owned by author Ian Fleming. Courtesy of: Robert collection	Ian Fleming's James Bond Titles Title Published Film Released  1. Casino Royale 1953 1967 and 2006  2. Live and Let Die 1954 1973  3. Moonraker 1955 1979  4. Diamonds Are Forever 1956 1971  5. From Russia With Love 1957 1963  6. Doctor No 1958 1962  7. Goldfinger 1959 1964  8. For Your Eyes Only (short stories) 1960  From A View To A Kill 1985  For Your Eyes Only 1981  Quantum of Solace 2008 Risico  The Hildebrand Rarity  9. Thunderball 1961 1965  10. The Spy Who Loved Me 1962 1977  11. On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1963 1969  12. You Only Live Twice 1964 1967  13. The Man With The Golden Gun 1965 1974  14. Octopussy & The Living Daylights (short stories) 1966  Octopussy 1983  The Living Daylights 1987  The Property Of A Lady  Ian Fleming's Non-Bond books Title Published Film released  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1964 1968  Thrilling Cities 1963  The Diamond Smugglers 1957

"A superb gambling scene, a torture scene which still haunts me, and, of course a beautiful girl" Raymond Chandler

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"The dry riffle of the cards and the soft whirr of the roulette wheel, the sharp call of the croupiers and the feverish mutter of a crowded casino hide the thick voice at Bond's ear which says, "I will count up to ten."

Anyone who has ever gambled will find this tense and sometimes horrifying story of espionage and high gambling irresistible. So will readers who have never entered a casino. Connoisseurs of realistic fiction will particularly note the careful documentation of the Secret Service background, the chilling portrait of Le Chiffre, the authentic menace of SMERSH, and the sensual appeal of the girl in 'soie sauvage'."

(from the recent Penguin edition)

"Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very deadly. This, the first of Fleming's tales of agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralise a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply 'Le Chiffre' - by ruining him at the baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to 'retire' him. It seems that lady luck is taken with James - Le Chiffre has hit a losing streak. But some people just refuse to play by the rules, and Bond's attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster and an unexpected saviour."

LIVE AND LET DIE (1954) by Ian Fleming

"Containing passages which for sheer excitement have not been surpassed by any modern writer of this kind" Times Literary Supplement

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"In the higher ranges of Secret Service work the actual facts in many cases were in every respect equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama. Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party, were interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true. The Chief and the High Officers of the Secret Service revelled in these subterranean labyrinths, and pursued their task with cold and silent passion." SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL in Thoughts and Adventures.

It is in these higher ranges of Secret Service work that James Bond operates on the very outside edge of danger, and, in this story, among hazards no reader will easily forget. "

Ian Fleming's first book Casino Royale, an account of the gambling assignment that nearly cost Bond his life, was described as 'the best thriller since the war'.

Live and Let Die, a breath-taking hunt for secret treasure that takes Bond to Harlem, Florida and Jamaica is still better."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big - master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the Everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realised that he is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no one, not even the enigmatic Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end."

MOONRAKER (1955) by Ian Fleming Ian Fleming

"Irresistibly readable" Observer
"Fleming is splendid; he stops at nothing" New Statesman

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"It was Monday and a routine day for James Bond in the quiet office at the headquarters of the Secret Service. Idly he ticked off his number - 007- on the charge sheets of the Top Secret files that had come in over the week-end. He was bored. Mondays were hell.

Then, suddenly, the red telephone screamed in the quiet room. 'M wants you.' And Bond walked out of his office and into the assignment that was to put even his adventures in France (Casino Royale) and Harlem and Jamaica (Live and Let Die) in the shade.

And yet what was to happen to him was to happen out of the clear blue skies of early summer, here, in England. As it might have been yesterday. Or, as it might be, some dreadful tomorrow."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"At M's request, Bond has gone up against Sir Hugo Drax at the card table, on a mission to teach the millionaire and head of the Moonraker project a lesson he won't forget, and prevent a scandal engulfing Britain's latest defence system. But there is more to the mysterious Drax than simply cheating at cards. And once Bond delves deeper into goings-on at the Moonraker base he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they pretend to be..."

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1956) by Ian Fleming

"Probably the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England" Raymond Chandler

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"James Bond surveyed the glittering diamonds that lay scattered across the red leather surface of M's desk and wondered what it was all about.

The quiet grey eyes watched him thoughtfully.

Then M took the pipe out of his mouth and dryly gave Bond details of the assignment of which even M was afraid. And Bond walked out of the Headquarters of the Secret Service and into his greatest adventure.

Greater than Casino Royale? More terrible than Live and Let Die? More hazardous than Moonraker?

Yes."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with - if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice maiden herself...."

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1957)

"Mr Fleming is in a class by himself... immense detail, elaborate settings and continually mounting tension, flavoured with sex, brutality and sudden death" Daily Mail
"Adds the pleasures of a credible plot to the excitement of extreme violence. Highly polished, irresistible" Sunday Times

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(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance - of interrogation, torture and death - and James Bond is dedicated to the destruction of its agents wherever he finds them.

But, in its turn, the cold eye of SMERSH focuses on James Bond and far away in Moscow a trap is laid for him - a death trap with an enticing lure.

Ian Fleming takes us into the headquarters of SMERSH. We watch Bond's assassination being minutely devised. We meet the executioner. We sit in at the planning. We inspect the lure.

Then the lever is pulled in Moscow, and in London, Istanbul and Paris the wheels begin to turn.

Ian Fleming's other Secret Service thrillers - Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever - may have made your pulse race.

Be careful of From Russia With Love. Weak nerves will be shredded by it."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Every major foreign government has a file on James Bond, British secret agent. Now, Russia's deadly SMERSH organisation has targeted him for elimination - they have the perfect bait in the irresistible Tatiana Romanova. Her mission is to lure Bond to Istanbul and seduce him while her superiors handle the rest. But when Bond walks willingly into the trap, a game of cross and double-cross ensues - with Bond both the stakes and the prize."

DR. NO. (1958) by Ian Fleming

"Masterful, beautifully written" Raymond Chandler, The Sunday Times
"Fleming, by reason of his plausability, sense of pace, brilliant descriptive powers and superb imagination, provides sheer entertainment." Spectator

Plot Summary  
(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"M hasn't forgiven James Bond for the negligence on his last assignment that nearly cost Bond his life. Brusquely, almost contemptuously, he tosses Bond a time-wasting, shabby little case in the Caribbean. It will really be a holiday on an island in the sun - convalescence.

Angrily Bond accepts his orders. He flies off to Jamaica. The sun shines, the palm trees wave, the calypsos throb.

But on the horizon a cloud forms. It is no bigger than a man's hand - an articulated steel hand - the hand of Dr. No!

This, the sixth of Ian Fleming's Secret Service thrillers, will, as did the others, grip the reader with a taut, suave, sensual stranglehold. "

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Dr. No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firmly in his steely grasp. Bond and Honey Rider, his beautiful and vulnerable girl Friday, have been captured trespassing on Dr No's secluded Caribbean island. Intent on protecting his clandestine operations from the British Secret Service, Dr No sees an opportunity to dispose of an enemy and further his diabolical research. Soon, Bond and Rider are fighting for their lives in a murderous game of Dr. No's choosing."

GOLDFINGER (1959) by Ian Fleming

"Nobody does this sort of thing as well as Mr Fleming." Sunday Times
"Mr Fleming is the best thriller writer since Buchan" Evening Standard

Plot Summary  
(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"Goldfinger, the man who loved gold, said, 'Mr Bond, it was a most evil day for you when you first crossed my path. If you had then found an oracle to consult, the oracle would have said to you "Mr Bond keep away from Mr Auric Goldfinger. He is a most powerful man. If Mr Goldfinger wished to crush you, he would only have to turn over in his sleep to do so.'

With the lazy precision of Fate, this, Ian Fleming's longest narrative of secret service adventure, brings James Bond to grips with the most powerful criminal the world has ever known - Goldfinger, the man who had planned the 'Crime de la Crime'.

Le Chiffre, Mr Big, Sir Hugo Drax, Jack Spang, Rosa Klebb, Dr No - and now the seventh adversary, a Goliath of Crime."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Auric Goldfinger: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful. A cheat at Canasta and a crook on a massive scale in everyday life. The sort of man James Bond hates. So it's fortunate that Bond is the man charged by both the Bank of England and MI5 to discover what this, the richest man in the country, intends to do with his ill-gotten gains - and what his connection is with SMERSH, the feared Soviet spy-killing corps. But once inside this deadly criminal's organisation, 007 finds that Goldfinger's schemes are more grandiose - and lethal - than anyone could have imagined. Not only is he planning the greatest gold robbery in history, but mass murder as well..."

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1960) by Ian Fleming

"Mr Fleming's licensed assassin is in good form. Few men can have been able to mix business with pleasure so successfully as Bond." The Times Literary Supplement

Plot Summary  
(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"The destruction of a Russian hideout at SHAPE head quarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; sudden and ghastly death in the Seychelles islands and, in between, a story of love and hate in Bermuda.

These are five episodes in a short span of tough life - the life of James Bond, agent number 007 in the Secret Service."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren't quite what they seem are the stock-in-trade of James Bond. And when 007 is on the case there's only one thing you can be sure of - the result will be thrilling. Whether he's dealing with the assassination of a Cuban thug in America, the destruction of an international heroin ring, or sudden death in the Seychelles, Bond gets the job done. In his own suave and unmistakable style."

THUNDERBALL (1961) by Ian Fleming

"Good living, sex and violent action - a highly polished performance, an ingenious plot and plenty of excitement." Times Literary Supplement

Plot Summary  
(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"Thunderball presents the blueprint for a monstrous crime that could be just around the corner in history.

James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his former pitch of exceptional fitness. Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame of the carrot juice and nut cutlet regime - and thereby minutely upsets the plan of SPECTRE, a new adversary, more deadly, more ruthless even than Smersh.

Who is SPECTRE? What are its plans? Alas, the organisation is all to realistically described, its plans all too contemporary for comfort. Of all James Bond's adversaries, the Chief of SPECTRE casts the darkest shadow."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"When a stranger arrives in the Bahamas, the locals barely turn their heads, seeing another ex-pat with money to burn at the casino tables. But James Bond has more than money on his mind; he's got less than a week to find two stolen atom bombs hidden among the coral reefs. While acting the playboy, Bond meets Domino, sultry plaything of secretive treasure hunter Emilio Largo. In getting close to this gorgeous Italian girl, Bond hopes to learn more about Largo's hidden operation."

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1962) by Ian Fleming (with Vivienne Michel)

"Ian Fleming keeps you riveted. His narrative pulls with the smooth power of Bond's Thunderbird" Sunday Telegraph

Plot Summary 
(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"Vivienne Michel writes: 'The spy who loved me was called James Bond and the night on which he loved me was a night of screaming terror in The Dreamy Pines Motor Court, which is in the Adirondacks in the north of New York State.

'This is the story of who I am and how I came through a nightmare of torture and the threat of rape and death to a dawn of ecstasy. It's all true - absolutely. Otherwise Mr Fleming certainly would not have risked his professional reputation in acting as my co-author and persuading his publishers, Jonathan Cape, to publish my story. Ian Fleming has also kindly obtained clearance for certain minor breaches of The Official Secrets Act that were necessary to my story."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers - the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007; the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love her."

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1963) by Ian Fleming

"Bond is what every man would like to be, and what every woman would like to have between her sheets" Raymond Chandler, Sunday Times

Plot Summary  
(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

" 'It was one of those Septembers when it seemed that the summer would never end.'

But it did end and winter came in a lethal welter of mystery, bloodshed and multiple death amidst the snow.

This, the eleventh chapter in the biography of James Bond, is one of the longest. It is also the most enthralling.

Really the most? Really the most."

(from the recent Penguin publication)
"When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world - Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE's agents. Which may require the help of someone who can handle herself at high speed."

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1964) by Ian Fleming

"A sensational imagination" Sunday Times
"Instructive and entertaining" Cyril Connolly

Plot Summary  
(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into eternity the girl whom James Bond had married only hours before, the heart, the zest for life, went out of Bond. Incredibly from being a top agent of the Secret Service, he had gone to pieces, was even on the verge of becoming a security risk. M is persuaded to give him one last chance - an impossible mission far removed from his usual duties - and Bond leaves for Japan.

There, coming under the orders of the formidable 'Tiger' Tanaka, Head of the Japanese Secret Service, the Koan-Chosa-Kyoku, he is indeed subjected to the shock treatment his condition demanded.

Shock treatment? The reader will also be subjected to it in full measure in this, perhaps the most bizarre and doom-fraught of all James Bond's adventures."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"Bond, a shattered man after the death of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has gone to pieces as an agent, endangering himself and his fellow operatives. M, unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, sends 007 to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. But Japan proves to be Bond's downfall, leading him to a mysterious residence known as the 'Castle of Death' where he encounters an old enemy revitalised. All the omens suggest that this is the end for the British agent and, for once, even Bond himself seems unable to disagree."

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1965) by Ian Fleming

"Fleming keeps you riveted" Sunday Telegraph

Plot Summary  
(from the recent Penguin edition)
"A brainwashed James Bond has tried - and failed - to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. 'All' 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freelance hit-men in the world - one Paco 'Pistols' Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun. But despite his licence to kill, 007 is no assassin, and, on finding Scaramanga in the sultry heat of Jamaica, he decides to infiltrate the killer's criminal co-operative - and realises that he will have to take him out as swiftly as possible. Or 007 might just be the next on a long list of British Secret Service numbers that the Man with the Golden Gun has retired..."

OCTOPUSSY AND THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1966) by Ian Fleming

"Ian Fleming traces the intricacies of counter-espionage with all the efficient authority of 007's own secret reporters." Sunday Times

Plot Summary  
(from the original jacket copy of the Jonathan Cape edition)

"From Jamaica, paradise of sunshine and exotic fish, to Berlin, cold grim city of stealth, James Bond pursues two strangely heroic enemies of the Secret Service. The first is a dying major whose dwindling hoard of gold conceals an act of treachery, and the second an assassin whose identity disturbs Bond's deadly aim.

These two stories, written in 1961 and 1962, were among those composed by Ian Fleming while he was writing the incomparable series of James Bond thrillers. The first collection of stories appeared in 1959 as For Your Eyes Only; a further collection which he had planned to publish was never completed."

(from the recent Penguin edition)
"For James Bond, British secret agent 007, international espionage can be a dirty business. Whether it is tracking down a wayward major who has taken a deadly secret with him to the Caribbean; identifying a top Russian agent secretly bidding for a Fabergé egg in a Sotheby's auction room; or ruthlessly gunning down an unlikely assassin in sniper's alley between East and West Berlin, Bond always closes the case - with extreme prejudice."

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