“ONE OF THE LEAST FORGETTABLE CHARACTERS IN MODERN FICTION”: FIRST EDITION OF DR. NO

FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape, (1958). Octavo, original brown-stamped paper boards, original dust jacket; housed in a custom clamshell box. $5000.

First edition of the sixth Bond thriller, introducing Dr. No, perhaps the most famous of the Bond villains and the first to appear on film.

The further adventures of "literature's most famous spy" (Steinbrunner & Penzler, 151) and basis for the first Bond film in 1962, starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. Time acclaimed the title villain as "one of the least forgettable characters in modern fiction" (Black, 32). First edition, first state, with all points, Gilbert's Binding A, with no dancing girl silhouette on front board, in first-issue dust jacket with Fleming's name printed in black on the spine. Gilbert A6a(1.1). Biondi & Pickard, 44-45.

Book fine, dust jacket with mild wear to spine ends, rear panel mildly soiled. A very attractive copy.