From Russia with Love: Read the fifth gripping unforgettable James Bond novel (James Bond 007, 5)

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He uses bribes and trickery to have two of them taken off the train, but he is later found dead in his compartment with the body of the third MGB agent.

Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. Withdrawn from "Timms Libraries in Syracuse, which did not use interior ownership stamps, or lending pockets.

Kerim takes Bond to dinner at his friend's gypsy camp, which comes under attack from Soviet agents in an assassination attempt against Kerim, whom the Soviets think they need out of the way for their trap to work. By January 1956 the author Ian Fleming had published three novels— Casino Royale in 1953, Live and Let Die in 1954 and Moonraker in 1955. The first appearance in print of two Bond stories, together with the first serialisation of another in the Daily Express. Provided with a later plain brown paper jacket with printed labels, made for ready-reference purposes. In 2023 Ian Fleming Publications—the company that administers all Fleming's literary works—had the Bond series edited as part of a sensitivity review to remove or reword some racial or ethnic descriptors.

The first great English detective novel, Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone is presented in a Folio Society limited edition of 750 numbered copies. A particularly uncommon set in hardcover, issued to celebrate the 100th birthday of the author (28th May 2008). This was the first James Bond hardback edition published by Penguin Books, who held the publishing rights to the series for a decade.

All Cape printings (the original publisher of the James Bond novels), the final three titles being first impressions. The critic for the New York Herald Tribune, conversely, wrote that "Mr Fleming is intensely observant, acutely literate and can turn a cliché into a silk purse with astute alchemy". Fleming's literary estate acquired the press the year before this publication, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the author's birth. IAN FLEMING - FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE, published by The Book Club in association with Jonathan Cape, copyright 1957, white endpapers, light blue boards with black lettering to spine, Published by Jonathan Cape at 13s 6d net on DJ front flap.