FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (Pan X236 - eleventh printing with stylish 1950s style cover art). This item is unavailable.FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (Pan X236 - eleventh printing with stylish 1950s style cover art)

An early eleventh printing of the first paperback edition. Pan X236. Originally published in 1959 with different cover artwork - reprinted once the same year and then in 1960 with new cover art - reprinted with this cover seven times between 1960 and 1963 before this eleventh printing which featured the excellent 1950s style cover art by Pat Owen, predating the Raymond Hawkey film tie-in covers of the 60s. ***Very good in colour illustrated card covers. The edges and corners of the covers show some light rubbing and creasing, commensurate with age and handling over the last 60+ years but are generally very clean and largely undamaged. No splits or tears, but there is a crease to the bottom corner of the back cover. All surfaces clean. No spine lean and spine straight - no reading creases. Page block edges tanned and foxed. Covers bright. Internally also very good with no inscriptions or annotations. Hardly any of the foxing and browning that is usually found with paperbacks from this period - the interior pages are clean. The cheap paper stock is lightly tanned as usual. No creases or tears. ***178mm x110mm. 208 pages. ***'SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance - of interrogation, torture and death - and James Bond is dedicated to the destruction of its agents wherever he finds them. ***But, in its turn, the cold eye of SMERSH focuses on James Bond, and far away in Moscow a trap is laid for him - a death-trap with an enticing lure!' ***'Mr. Fleming's tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale.' (Quote and review quote taken from the back cover) ***An early eleventh printing vintage paperback edition of "From Russia with Love", with the iconic 1950s style cover art, in very good original condition, with only minor faults, as described above. Uncommon in this condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…