Tatiana is in Bond's bed naked when he comes back to the hotel Kristal Palas (based on the real Pera Palas Hotel). Fleming himself interpreted his creation in the same way, once saying that Bond was the intelligence community's "strong right hand" in the fight against communism (ibid. From Russia, With Love; [together with] On Her Majesty's Secret Service; [and] Murder Before Breakfast [From a View to a Kill].

To mark Folio’s 75th anniversary, Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is published as a magical new edition, beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Marie-Alice Harel and bursting with exquisite design details. x 8 1/2 Book; binding tight with near fine gilt titles to spine, mild bumping to corners else black and blue boards straight and clean; text, with blue top stain, free of marks, appears unread. The 1955 conference of the ICPC - the precursor to Interpol - drew together government representatives, agents, and related stakeholders from around the world. The Man with the Golden Gun is in the second issue jacket with darker grey lettering than the first issue. First Signet paperback edition, first printing, inscribed "To Kurt Enoch from Ian Fleming", iii) From Russia, With Love, 1958.The novel is credited with launching the James Bond craze, and leading to the official EON Productions film series. Notepad: a few light marks to wrappers, minor creasing at head of block, couple of horizontal creases to wrappers, and to a few initial leaves where previously folded over, two short closed tears in margin of front wrapper corresponding with creases, first leaf detaching slightly from block on the upper left side but holding firm.

From Russia, with Love was released in the UK as a hardback on 8 April 1957, by the publishers Jonathan Cape.

Original green wrappers with publisher's device repeated in white, spine and wrappers lettered in black. According to Higson, Fleming spent the first four novels changing the style of his books, and his approach to his characters, but in From Russia, with Love the author "finally hits on the classic Bond formula, and he happily moved into his most creative phase".

Despite being something of a blithe anachronism, a throwback to a time when spies dressed for dinner and crude racial stereotypes were socially acceptable, 007 projected an image of Western intelligence services as a noble-band of decisive and courageous patriots, fighting an enemy in the Soviet Union, that possessed a kind of wanton, undiscriminating belligerence" (Moran, p. The offer of defection, ostensibly from Romanova, is received by MI6 in London, but is conditional on Bond collecting her and the Spektor from Istanbul. Mainly through the agency of Colonel Kronsteen, the chess-playing master planner, and Colonel Rosa Klebb, SMERSH lays a trap for Bond, by setting the pretty young cipher clerk, Corporal Tatiana Romanova, to pretend to defect from her post in Istanbul, claiming to have fallen in love with Bond, after seeing his photograph. The collection comprises the first appearances in print of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (first issue not included) and From a View to a Kill, the latter published here under the alternative title Murder Before Breakfast, together with the first complete serial publication of From Russia, With Love, the opening paragraphs of which were previously published as Visitor in the magazine Now and Then in late February/early March (Gilbert, p.Featuring extraordinary illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and an exclusive introduction by Janina Ramirez, each of the 750 numbered copies has been signed by both contributors. This is the personal copy of John Alden, founder and chairman of The Alden Press (Oxford) Limited, the printer of this and many James Bond titles, and is accompanied by a statement to this effect signed by his son and heir.