Ian Fleming – Dr NO – First UK Edition 1958
£2,450.00
First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1958. This is a very good (or better) copy. First state wrapper, second state binding with the ‘Honeychile’ silhouette. The dust wrapper, designed by Pat Marriott, is in first state (as… stated) shows the author’s name at the spine in black lettering. There is a mild tear to the front panel and some bumping at the corners. The rear panel is mostly clean, but with two small spots present. It has been price clipped at all four corners, but retains the original price of 13s. 6d. net. The boards are sharp, with the silver foil lettering bright at the spine. The text blocks are free from foxing at every edge. This copy is free from previous owner’s ink and is, overall, in very good (or better) condition.
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. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1958. This is a very good (or better) copy. First state wrapper, second state binding with the ‘Honeychile’ silhouette. The dust wrapper, designed by Pat Marriott, is in first state (as… stated) shows the author’s name at the spine in black lettering. There is a mild tear to the front panel and some bumping at the corners. The rear panel is mostly clean, but with two small spots present. It has been price clipped at all four corners, but retains the original price of 13s. 6d. net. The boards are sharp, with the silver foil lettering bright at the spine. The text blocks are free from foxing at every edge. This copy is free from previous owner’s ink and is, overall, in very good (or better) condition.
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”.
