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Thunderball

Thunderball by Fleming, Ian

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Title
Thunderball
Author
Fleming, Ian
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961 First edition, first impression, first issue; in Gilbert's Binding A. Publisher's dark brown cloth with skeleton hand in blind to front board, spine lettered in gilt; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping, with an illustration to the front panel of a skeleton's hand holding a blackjack hand with a knife fixing the cards to the table, lettered in black. Near fine book, with light wear to foot of spine, bright gilt, a touch of soiling to bottom right corner of front board, bottom corners lightly bumped, and a gift inscription in black marker to front free endpaper; very good unclipped dust jacket, with light wear to spine ends, faint soiling to upper spine, light rubbing to rear panel, a touch of spotting to jacket, and lightly nicked corners. Overall, a very pleasing, tight copy. Gilbert A9a (1.1). Thunderball is the first of Fleming's novels to involve the notorious villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of the secret spy organization SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). In this novel, Bond is in the Bahamas at a health clinic when SPECTRE steals two atomic bombs. The British and American intelligence agencies team up to launch Operation Thunderball in an effort to recover the weapons. Published only a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Fleming draws a parallel to pre-existing Cold War tensions to heighten the suspense of this novel. Thunderball culminates with a memorable underwater fight scene from which 007 only narrowly escapes. The Blofeld trilogy is continued in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) and You Only Live Twice (1964).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

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