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Casino Royale Luxury Limited Edition

Casino Royale Luxury Limited Edition

by Ian Fleming

Publisher Random House

Genre: Crime

Released:

  • Unsigned
  • UK First Edition
  • First Printing
  • Hardcover
  • Limited Slipcase Edition
  • Leatherbound


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  • Professionally Packed

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About the book

The book has been created by designers Kris Potter and Stephen Parker at Random House, who were inspired following a trip to the Bentley Motors HQ in Crewe.

From the hand-bound beluga leather casing to distinctive Bentley features such as hand-stitched

embroidery and silver foil page edges, this special edition of Casino Royale is produced with only the very finest materials. Its striking red, white and black colouring is a nod to the gambling theme of Flemings first novel, where Bond famously takes on his adversary, Le Chiffre, over a game of baccarat. A special feature of this edition is the bespoke set of playing cards, hidden within a secret compartment.

The book is presented in an elegant leather clamshell case.

The case and special edition are bound in beluga coloured leather, sourced from the tannery in Italy which provides hides for Bentleys interiors.

Using Bentleys craftsmanship, this edition features the iconic double stitching and signature winged Bentley logo all hand stitched on the leather casing.

Bentleys trademark knurling adorns the metal spine. This feature is inspired by the Bentley steel tread plate.

Each book has a limitation marque with Ian Flemings signature, reflecting the plate you would find on a Bentley engine.

Throughout each book are evocative brush illustrations by the Award winning illustrator Damian Gascoigne.

Removing the book from the clamshell reveals a hidden compartment. Within this secret compartment lies a leather-bound case of Bentley Bond playing cards.

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About the Author

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London on 28 May 1908 and was educated at Eton College before spending a formative period studying languages in Europe. His first job was with Reuters news agency, followed by a brief spell as a stockbroker. On the outbreak of the Second World War he was appointed assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral Godfrey, where he played a key part in British and Allied espionage operations.


After the war he joined Kemsley Newspapers as Foreign Manager of the Sunday Times, running a network of correspondents who were intimately involved in the Cold War. His first novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953 and introduced James Bond, Special Agent 007, to the world. The first print run sold out within a month. Following this initial success, he published a Bond title every year until his death. His own travels, interests and wartime experience gave authority to everything he wrote. Raymond Chandler hailed him as ‘the most forceful and driving writer of thrillers in England.’ The fifth title, From Russia with Love, was particularly well received and sales soared when President Kennedy named it as one of his favourite books. The Bond novels have sold more than sixty million copies and inspired a hugely successful film franchise which began in 1962 with the release of Dr No starring Sean Connery as 007.


The Bond books were written in Jamaica, a country Fleming fell in love with during the war and where he built a house, ‘Goldeneye’. He married Anne Rothermere in 1952. His story about a magical car, written in 1961 for their only child Caspar, went on to become the well-loved novel and film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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