![]() ![]() It sold for £50,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) to a UK buyer on the phone. ![]() There were one or two condition issues such as foxing to the top edge and light foxing to a few preliminary pages, but it was described as an “excellent example overall”. In original boards, the first issue dust-jacket was without the The Sunday Times review that appeared on slightly later copies. The friends were known as great drinking buddies. Balzache was possibly a play on words – ‘balls ache’ – as a joke between the two (perhaps related to the book’s Bond torture scene). Estimated at £18,000- 22,000, Casino Royale was inscribed by Fleming to Paul from Balzache. ![]() The sale offered a complete set of Fleming’s Bond novels in their first editions – eight of them inscribed by Fleming to Gallico. And so the 007 phenomenon was born, with Fleming responsible for 14 novels in all.Ī first-edition, first-issue presentation copy of Casino Royale was offered at Chiswick Auctions on January 27 in a sale section dedicated to Gallico (1897-1976), the author, journal ist and screenwriter famous for novels such as The Snow Goose and The Poseidon Adventure. ![]()
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