Thunderball

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Jonathan Cape (1961). Octavo in original black cloth-effect paper-covered boards with blind-stamped illustration of a skeleton hand to front board and gilt title to spine. In original pictorial dust jacket by Richard Chopping (price-clipped slight edge-wear). First edition. Small bookseller's stamp to front free fly-leaf and spotting to top edge of text block otherwise clean. NOTE: The ninth James Bond book in which international crime syndicate SPECTRE headed by arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld (No. 1) is introduced for the first time.