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Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original black boards with gilt titles & blind stamped skeletal hand to front board. A fine copy with clean boards. No marks to textblock edges - topedge clean & unmarked. Internally very clean and complete with no inscriptions. The near fine/fine dustwrapper is complete with the lightest wear. Original price of 15s.net to front flap. An attractive copy with none of the usual toning to wrapper spine. Gilbert A9a 1.1. The ninth James Bond title & the introduction of Spectre and Blofeld. James Bond turns up in the Bahamas and has less than a week to find two stolen nuclear bombs hidden amongst its reefs.

Thunderball is the ninth book in the James Bond series, and the eighth full-length James Bond novel, written by Ian Fleming. It is famous for introducing the criminal organization SPECTRE and the character Ernst Stavro Blofeld.