![]() ![]() ![]() The adventure novel ended with Bond seriously wounded and nearly killed by fugu poison from the sex organs of the Japanese globe-fish. The book was a great commercial success and helped to launch Fleming as a best-selling novelist. In 1961, President Kennedy named it among his ten favorite books, "JFK's seal of approval was just the fillip that Viking, Ian's new publishers, needed for his books to take off in the United States" (Lycett, 383). Fleming considered this in many ways his best work. In From Russia, With Love, James Bond must recover a stolen Soviet encryption device from SMERSH. ![]() It is housed in a matching quarter black leather and red cloth archival clamshell. It is presented rebound in spectacular full black calf leather, with a custom gilt and red gun and rose embossed stamp to the front board, and gilt tooling, titles, and raised bands to the book’s spine. The book was published in London by Jonathan Cape, in 1957. Presented is the first edition of Ian Fleming's fifth James Bond novel, From Russia, With Love. Rebound in full black calf leather, with custom gilt and red gun and rose embossed stamp to front, gilt tooling and titles to spine, and matching black quarter leather and red cloth archival clamshell. ![]()
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