Buy this book on-line FLEMING**, IAN: : A JAMES BOND QUARTET: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, From Russia with LoveLONDON.CAPE,1992. ISBN 0224036211.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,omnibus (quartet),1st edn thus.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,glossy laminated,author part-photographic illustrated upper wrap; red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge has one small smudge, otherwise bright and clean,fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters and pistol silhouette to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,11- 678pp [paginated] includes 4 complete novels,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table.Wrapped and protected from day of purchase.
Forty years ago James Bond was but a twinkle in the eye of his creator,Ian Fleming,who was then savouring the last days of bachelorhood at his tropical hideaway in Jamaica.In a letter to Jonathan Cape in 1952 he dismissed Casino Royale as a mere diversion from his imminent wedding.Yet it was in that dashingly plotted first novel,where deadly international power struggles are played out over baccarat and martinis,that the playboy secret agent was born - and the house of Cape was to remain Fleming's hardback publisher happily ever after.To celebrate Bond's birthday as well as his ground-breaking film debut,when Sean Connery first mesmerised international audiences in Dr No,Cape will publish three elegant omnibus editions containing the entire series of twelve novels and two short story collections.
In this,the first,Bond moves stylishly outgambling his opponent,Le Chiffre,in 'Casino Royale' to grappling with an octopus on an all too populated sea-bed in 'Live and Let Die'; he exposes the hypocritical British patriot Sir Hugo Drax and his multi-million pound missile programme in the nailbiting Moonraker and in 'From Russia with Love' he is lured towards a Soviet SMERSH assassination
plot by a beautiful temptress dressed in nothing but a black velvet ribbon.
For those who have only ever encountered 007 on the big screen,prepare for the original eye-opening,distinctive thrill of his exploits on the page.Bond is looking very sleek at forty - and still nobody does it better.See sequential alpha-numerical book ID (rja352910) for 2nd volume of the 3 planned omnibuses.Any and all of the three omnibuses are SCARCE and sought after.
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