Ian Fleming – Dr NO – First Edition 1958 – with Solander Box
£1,500.00
First edition, first printing of Dr No by Ian Fleming, published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1958. A near fine copy signed in blue ink by a former owner to the front free end paper, light shelf wear to rear board and spotting to the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper, with fading to the spine, chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds and some toning to the rear panel. Wrapper design by Pat Marriott. In a custom made solander box.
The sixth James Bond novel. The novel centres on Bond’s investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile Rider and later Doctor No.
The novel began as a 1956 screenplay for the producer Henry Morgenthau III for a proposed television show entitled Commander Jamaica. When those plans foundered, Fleming adapted the ideas as the basis for a novel, provisionally titled The Wound Man. The book’s eponymous villain was influenced by Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu stories.
Dr. No was the first of Fleming’s novels to face widespread negative criticism in Britain; Paul Johnson of the New Statesman dismissed the book as one of “Sex, Snobbery and Sadism”.
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First edition, first printing of Dr No by Ian Fleming, published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1958. A near fine copy signed in blue ink by a former owner to the front free end paper, light shelf wear to rear board and spotting to the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper, with fading to the spine, chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds and some toning to the rear panel. Wrapper design by Pat Marriott. In a custom made solander box.
The sixth James Bond novel. The novel centres on Bond’s investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile Rider and later Doctor No.
The novel began as a 1956 screenplay for the producer Henry Morgenthau III for a proposed television show entitled Commander Jamaica. When those plans foundered, Fleming adapted the ideas as the basis for a novel, provisionally titled The Wound Man. The book’s eponymous villain was influenced by Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu stories.
Dr. No was the first of Fleming’s novels to face widespread negative criticism in Britain; Paul Johnson of the New Statesman dismissed the book as one of “Sex, Snobbery and Sadism”.
