9 full-colour illustrations including two double-page spreads Text printed in two colours on Natural Evolution Ivory paper Set in Miller text with Folio Bold Condensed as display Bound in leather blocked in silver, metallic red and black foils The Folio Society limited edition of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale The book is bound in leather and the cover design is a nod to one of Casino Royale’s memorable scenes, where Bond takes on his adversary Le Chiffre over a game of baccarat.Įach edition comes in an artwork-lined clamshell box and includes an exclusive limitation label signed by the artist. It includes two striking double-page pictures and seven new black-and-white illustrations integrated throughout the text.

The Folio Society Limited Edition features new artwork by illustrator Fay Dalton, who has combined traditional drawing methods with digital painting. Illustration ©2023 Fay Dalton from The Folio Society edition of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale Casino Royale reinvents the genre, and this beautiful edition celebrates its explosive style and elegance perfectly.” Kim Sherwood, author and introducer of the Folio Limited Edition, says: “When Ian Fleming first sat down at his not-yet-golden typewriter, it was with the intention to 'write the spy story to end all spy stories' – and he achieved it.

Fleming took the opportunity to play with a new form of storytelling, and the result is a set of stories that broaden and elevate the conventions of a Bond adventure. Her introduction discusses how Ian Fleming changed spy fiction forever with the creation of James Bond.įour of the five stories in For Your Eyes Only are adaptations of plots originally drafted by Fleming for a television series that didn’t quite get off the ground.

The book features an exclusive new introduction by award-winning author Kim Sherwood, who is expanding the world of James Bond with a new trilogy of ‘Double O’ novels that began last year with Double or Nothing. Only 750 copies of the special collector’s edition have been produced in close collaboration with the Ian Fleming estate to celebrate the first James Bond book. To celebrate 70 years since the first James Bond novel, the Folio Society have released a Limited Edition version of Casino Royale (£500 / $725) with an introduction by Kim Sherwood and signed by the artist Fay Dalton.

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