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London: Penguin Books / Past Times, 2002. [Spy series] LIMITED EDITION BOX SET. A rare, complete set with the all-important limitation card. Fourteen volumes, small octavo (19 x 12 x 27cm). Softcovers with photographic cover art by Toby MacFarlan Pond. Anniversary edition, marking 50 years since the writing of Casino Royale. Limited to 2000 numbered sets, of which this is number 0394. The full set, all absolutely fine and unread, shrink-wrapped in the original pictorial slip-case with the exclusive bookmark bearing the printed limitation number, very often missing once the shrinkwrap was opened. As such, complete sets are particularly scarce. Originally retailing at £70 exclusively through chain store Past Times, this important set was the first limited and numbered edition of Fleming's works to be offered for sale. It also represents the first occasion that all fourteen James Bond titles were sold together in the UK. Gilbert F6.

Doctor No is the sixth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, originally published in 1958. It follows the British MI6 agent on a mission to Jamaica where he encounters the eponymous villain, Dr. Julius No, who is plotting to sabotage an American space launch with the help of his criminal organization.