1950s Complete Set of 9 James Bond Hardcover Books by Ian Fleming

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A complete set of 9 James Bond Novels by Ian Fleming in the uniform dust jacket design and uniform black … Read more A complete set of 9 James Bond Novels by Ian Fleming in the uniform dust jacket design and uniform black with color hardcovers.
Book Cub Editions-American

All are bound in similar black and colored cloth boards with gold gilt lettered spines. Top page edges are stained in color and rough cut pages. Uniform dust jackets with stylized gun and woman on a tonal background in light colors.

1953-1965: CASINO ROYALE, MOONRAKER, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, DOCTOR NO, GOLDFINGER, THUNDERBALL, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

Note; The other 5 James Bond books by Ian Fleming - Live & Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, For Your Eyes Only, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Octopussy were never published in this uniform book club format.


Dimensions
8.5ʺW × 5.75ʺD × 0.75

Casino Royale-First title in the Bond series.
Copyright 1953 Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher Macmillan

Moonraker
Copyright 1955 Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher Macmillan

From Russia With Love
Copyright 1957 Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher Viking 1957

Doctor no
Copyright 1958 Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher Viking 1958

Goldfinger
Copyright 1959Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher Viking 1959

Thunderball
Copyright 1961 Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher Viking 1961

The Spy Who Loved Me
Copyright 1962 Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher Viking 1962

You Only Live Twice
Copyright 1964 Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher New American Library of World Literature

The Man with the Golden Gun
Copyright 1965 Glidrose Productions Ltd
Publisher Viking 1965



Condition:
Good vintage hardcover condition with minimal shelf wear on corners, minor marks or smudging, some spotting of end pages.
Pages are clean with no bent corners, tears, or pencil/pen ownership marks. The colored stain of top pages are in good condition.

*Dust Cover Jackets are included and in various stages of wear. Most are good with one in poor condition. The top and bottom of this range of wear is shown in a photo. See the very good dust jacket ‘The Spy who Loved Me’ and the poorest ‘You Only Live Twice’ showing tearing/missing paper of jacket of the spine.


About the First in Series:
Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book.

Casino Royale was first released on 13 April 1953 in the UK as a hardback edition by publishers Jonathan Cape. Cape printed 4,728 copies of Casino Royale, which sold out in less than a month;a second print run the same month also sold out,as did a third run of more than 8,000 books published in May 1954.


Author Bio:
Ian Fleming was a British author and journalist. His first novel, Casino Royale (1953), introduced spy hero, James Bond, agent 007, to the world. It was the first of fourteen James Bond books which have gone on to sell over 60 million copies worldwide and be translated into 20 languages. Beginning with the movie adaptation of Dr No in 1961, the series also sparked the longest-running film franchise in history. Both Fleming and his fictional counterpart have become synonymous with style, glamour and thrilling adventures, as well as universally recognised phrases such as “My name’s Bond, James Bond” and “shaken and not stirred”.

Fleming was born in London in 1908. In the 1930s he worked at Reuters news agency before joining Naval Intelligence as an officer during the Second World War. His talent for writing fast and engaging prose, along with his knowledge of espionage and his fertile imagination led to the creation of James Bond, arguably one of the most-famous fictional characters of all time. He also wrote children’s classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. See less