It has been filmed twice as a feature film, the first being the 1967 spoof starring David Niven, and later as the twenty-first official Bond film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond. The full details of Bond's martini were kept until chapter seven of the book and Bond eventually named it 'The Vesper', after Vesper Lynd' (Andrew Lycett). 'Within the first few pages Fleming had introduced most of Bond's idiosyncrasies and trademarks,' which included his looks, his Bentley and his smoking and drinking habits.

Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.Ĭasino Royale was written by Ian Fleming in Jamaica over a period of around two months, largely from his own experiences and imagination he also devised the artwork for the cover. From The Author.” With a letter of provenance from the original owner, who was a bilingual secretary to the Foreign Manager of Kemsley Newspapers, who was Ian Fleming.” When Fleming was writing Casino Royale, Smith notes that “this copy was acquired on the first day of its publication.” Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the lightest of rubbing to the extremities. To celebrate, the novels are being re-releasedbut they won’t be identical to the books that were. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Edwina who helped in the birth-pangs. Casino Royale, the first book in Ian Fleming’s popular spy series, turns 70 in 2023. Gilbert notes that of 4,728 copies printed, 1,728 were the second issue.First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. 'Of the conception of this most famous of debuts Fleming repeatedly said that it was written to take his mind off his forthcoming marriage yet as early as the end of the war, following his decommission from a successful career in Naval Intelligence, Fleming had told Ivar Bryce that he would settle down to write 'the spy novel to end all spy novels'.' (Gilbert, Fleming: The Bibliography, p. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953Ĩvo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, second issue, with overprinted Sunday Times review to inner flap, original black cloth, lettered in red, design to upper cover in red, DUST-JACKET, collector's black cloth clamshell box, some very minor wear to head and foot of dust-jacket and light spotting to rear coverįirst edition, first impression, second issue in jacket of the author's first novel, and the debut James Bond title, written by Fleming in early 1952 at Goldeneye, his tropical hideaway on Jamaica's north shore.

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