Ian Fleming – Dr NO – First UK Edition 1958
£1,875.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Dr No’ published by Cape in 1958. A near fine book without inscriptions. A little spotting to the top edge. In a very good/near fine dust wrapper with minor wear to the corners, some browning to the spine and a little wear to the spine tips – light spotting to the front end flap. Neatly clipped.
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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A first edition, first printing of ‘Dr No’ published by Cape in 1958. A near fine book without inscriptions. A little spotting to the top edge. In a very good/near fine dust wrapper with minor wear to the corners, some browning to the spine and a little wear to the spine tips – light spotting to the front end flap. Neatly clipped.
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”.
