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

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Internally, there are a previous owner's stamp markings to the front end page, and there are closed tears to the inside edge of the last few pages. After military service in the First World War, he worked in his father's magazine distribution business and gained a social science doctorate at the University of Hamburg.

The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn, with the cloth slightly frayed in the corners and along the edges. They published Thacker's Indian Directory from 1864-1960, the premier commercial almanac of the subcontinent.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. Ta Gilbert states "there appear to be very few presentation copies of this title given out by the publisher". The trouble with these policemen', he wrote, 'is that they have no idea what is really interesting in their jobs and regard criminal matters as really a great bore'" (Pearson, p.

First Signet or First American paperback editions, first printings, presentation copies inscribed by the author to his American publisher, Kurt Enoch (1894-1982), the "paperback pioneer".The conductor was drugged and Karp's body was found shortly afterwards in a railway tunnel south of Salzburg. Kerim immediately recognizes the three Russians they saw in a meeting a few days before on the train and decides to get them off. Complete James Bond series comprising Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. 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".