THUNDERBALL BY IAN FLEMING 1961 FIRST EDITION

[FLEMING, IAN]. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover with dust jacket; contained in velvet-lined clamshell case with gilt titles to spine; octavo (19.5 x 12.5 x 2.5 cm); pp. 254. English text. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with blind-stamped skeletal hand design to upper board and titles in gilt to the spine; supplied with the original Richard Chopping illustrated dust jacket, complete with '15s net' intact; half-title. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy, the contents are clean throughout and without previous ownership markings. Complete with the fine original dust jacket that remains without fading, loss or tears, and not price-clipped. 

Notes: A spectacular, as new example of the ninth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. [Gilbert A9a (1.1)].