Books

Jonathan Cape,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, upper board blocked with skeletal hand in blind, gilt back, top almost imperceptibly speckled, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one tony nick at lower corner of front panel. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Richard Chopping. Crisp copy of the ninth Bond novel, the first of the Blofeld trilogy and the first to feature SPECTRE. Dustwrapper correctly priced at 15s. Gilbert A9a.1.1, binding A with backstrip lettered in gilt; Hubin, p.288.

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.