Ian Fleming | From Russia, with Love, 1957, first edition, dust-jacket

Ian Fleming

From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, 8vo, original black cloth, lettered in silver and red, design to upper cover in silver and red, dust-jacket, extremities slightly bumped, dust-jacket frayed at extremities, spotted, and professionally restored

Gilbert notes that this was the first Fleming novel with a dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, and that this design was "arguably his finest".

LITERATURE

Gilbert A5a (1.1-1.2)