Description

• The ninth book in Fleming’s famous spy series published by Folio
• With seven full-colour illustrations by Fay Dalton
• Ian Fleming created the world’s most famous fictional spy when Casino Royale was published in 1953 – the first of fourteen James Bond novels
• First Thus [The Folio Society, London, 2020]; xii, 154 pages; silvery grey cloth, silver & bronze titling, a fine copy; in like plain cardboard slipcase with papered illustration pasted to face

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