Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First Edition, First issue (with all first issue points.) Pp, 254. Publisher’s black cloth boards with skeletal hand embossed on front board with gold lettering to spine. in original pictorial dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Closed tears (repaired) to head & tail of jacket with a little loss at corner edges, otherwise a nice bright copy.

The ninth book in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series & the novel that introduced SPECTRE and the deliciously evil Ernst Stavro Blofeld to the world.

Basis for the film of the same name that starred Sean Connery as Agent 007 and Claudine Auger as Bond Girl Dominique “Domino” Derval.

In 1966 THUNDERBALL won the Oscar for “Best Effects, Special Visual Effects.”