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Ian Fleming – Dr NO – SIGNED by Ursula Andress, Eunice Gayson and Zena Marshall
£850.00
First edition, second printing of ‘Dr No.’. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1958. This is a near fine copy. The Pat Marriott dust wrapper has some toning to the front and rear panels, with some mild handling marks throughout. It is not price clipped retaining the original price and is without loss. The book is very good. The text blocks show a little spotting to the top edge – no inscriptions and is, overall, in near fine condition.
SIGNED on the front endpaper ‘Greetings/Eunice Gayson/, Zena Marshall and ‘Ursula Andress, Honey Rider’. Andress has also drawn a small love heart.
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, second printing of ‘Dr No.’. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1958. This is a near fine copy. The Pat Marriott dust wrapper has some toning to the front and rear panels, with some mild handling marks throughout. It is not price clipped retaining the original price and is without loss. The book is very good. The text blocks show a little spotting to the top edge – no inscriptions and is, overall, in near fine condition.
SIGNED on the front endpaper ‘Greetings/Eunice Gayson/, Zena Marshall and ‘Ursula Andress, Honey Rider’. Andress has also drawn a small love heart.
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”.
