Dr. No.

First edition of the first James Bond novel to be made into a film, the sixth in the series overall. A superb copy in an unusually nice example of the dust jacket.

Dr. No was begun as a screenplay for a proposed television show, Commander Jamaica, and was written at Fleming's Goldeneye Estate on the island. When the television project failed to materialise he repurposed the plot as the next novel in the James Bond series, following From Russia, with Love, then in the editing stage. As he had done for the previous Bond novels, Fleming also created the concept for the dust jacket art. He envisioned the female lead, Honeychile Rider, appearing Venus-like at her introduction, and Ursula Andress's portrayal of her in this scene became one of the most famous in movie history.

First edition, second state binding; 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm); some light spotting to prelims and margins of some pages, occasional minor mark, else good; publisher's second state binding as usual with silhouette to upper board, silver lettering to spine, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket by Pat Marriott, some foxing to rear panel, three small marks, one of which lightly affecting text, two small losses to upper edges, one to front panel and the other to upper right corner of rear panel, neither affecting text nor illustration, tear to rear panel (approx. 8-9 cm) though largely unnoticeable when flat, else a good copy of a very sought after title; 256pp.