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He corners her as Mathis's men enter, but just as they take her away, she slips out a poisoned shoe blade and kicks Bond. Woollacott and Bennett agree, and maintain that "Bond embodied the imaginary possibility that England might once again be placed at the centre of world affairs during a period when its world power status was visibly and rapidly declining. Personally I think from Russia, with Love was, in many respects, my best book, but the great thing is that each one of the books seems to have been a favourite with one or other section of the public and none has yet been completely damned. A near-fine copy in the bright jacket, rear panel with small faint stain and 1 cm short closed tear at foot. He sees Bond as Saint George—the patron saint of England—in the story, and notes that the opening chapter begins with an examination of a dragonfly as it flies over the supine body of Grant.
Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose â defection' springs a trap designed with clockwork precision. In From Russia, with Love, this acknowledgement of decline manifested itself in Bond's conversations with Darko Kerim when he admits that in England "we don't show teeth any more—only gums. Jacket shows general wear, with some chips and tears to edges, toning and rubbing to spine, and adhesion marks to reverse offset from an old jacket sleeve. Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkina, a real-life member of the Lenin Military-Political Academy about whom Fleming had written an article for The Sunday Times. They instruct an attractive young cipher clerk, Corporal Tatiana Romanova, to tell the British that she wants to defect from her post in Istanbul and claim to have fallen in love with Bond after seeing a photograph of him.Casino Royale (1953) • Live and Let Die (1954) • Moonraker (1955) • Diamonds are Forever (1956) • From Russia with Love (1957) • Dr. Original black boards, lettering to spines in silver, excepting gilt lettering on Goldfinger and The Man With the Golden Gun. A few small spot to top edge, binding quite fresh with bright lettering, dust-wrapper has benefited from some discreet professional restoration. From Russia, with Love was serialised in The Daily Express from 1 April 1957; [78] it was the first Bond novel the paper had adapted.
This copy was later part of the comprehensive James Bond collection of bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with accompanying provenance.Fleming makes numerous comments regarding the operations of various global intelligence services, Russian language, and culture - "Colours of folders.
Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields.She is captured but manages to kick Bond with a poisoned blade concealed in her shoe; the story ends with Bond fighting for breath and falling to the floor. This copy feels unread, to judge by the distinctive sound made by some of the pages as they are opened and turned. He feels that the "Fleming Sweep steadily propels the plot" of From Russia, with Love and, though it was the longest of Fleming's novels, "the Sweep makes it seem half as long". As an added lure, Romanova will provide the British with a Spektor, a Russian decoding device much coveted by MI6. Featuring a fascinating introduction by Val McDermid and new illustrations by Juan Esteban Rodríguez, each copy has been signed by both the introducer and the illustrator.
SMERSH stands for “Death to Spies” and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007. Seamus Heaney’s deeply felt interpretation, widely acknowledged as the greatest Beowulf translation of modern times, is presented in parallel with the Old English verse in this fabulous Folio edition. The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo. This definitive edition is "the most comprehensive collection of the writings of Ian Fleming to be published, including all of the author's original titles as issued in book-form editions and, in a brand-new volume, a collection of his journalism, some of which appears here for the first time" (Gilbert, p.An unusual pre-publication association/presentation copy with signed inscription by Ian Fleming's literary editor William Plomer to A. Julian Symons, in The Times Literary Supplement, considered that it was Fleming's "tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale", that the author "brings the thriller in line with modern emotional needs", and that Bond "is the intellectual's Mike Hammer: a killer with a keen eye and a soft heart for a woman".
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