It has been filmed twice as a feature film, the first being the 1967 spoof starring David Niven, and later as the twenty-first official Bond film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond.

The full details of Bond's martini were kept until chapter seven of the book and Bond eventually named it 'The Vesper', after Vesper Lynd' (Andrew Lycett). A signed first edition of Casino Royale was sold at auction in Scotland in 2019 for £55,000 while a first edition of Live and Let Die sold for £30,000.

The earliest James Bond Movies tended to be. If you came here to Casino Royale (James Bond (Original Series) Book 1) Kindle Edition by Ian Fleming expecting the slick movie gimcrack glitz and glamor. 'Within the first few pages Fleming had introduced most of Bond's idiosyncrasies and trademarks,' which included his looks, his Bentley and his smoking and drinking habits. His first novel, Casino Royale (1953), introduced spy hero, James Bond, agent 007, to the world. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.Ĭasino Royale was written by Ian Fleming in Jamaica over a period of around two months, largely from his own experiences and imagination he also devised the artwork for the cover. From The Author.” With a letter of provenance from the original owner, who was a bilingual secretary to the Foreign Manager of Kemsley Newspapers, who was Ian Fleming.” When Fleming was writing Casino Royale, Smith notes that “this copy was acquired on the first day of its publication.” Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the lightest of rubbing to the extremities. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Edwina who helped in the birth-pangs. First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series.

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