Despite being something of a blithe anachronism, a throwback to a time when spies dressed for dinner and crude racial stereotypes were socially acceptable, 007 projected an image of Western intelligence services as a noble-band of decisive and courageous patriots, fighting an enemy in the Soviet Union, that possessed a kind of wanton, undiscriminating belligerence" (Moran, p. Discreet ownership beneath flap, jacket slightly toned to extremities with a few small nicks and rubs. Fleming re-wrote the end of the novel in April 1956 to make Klebb poison Bond, which allowed him to finish the series with the death of the character if he wanted. Llewella Chapman's study of the iconic film pinpoints its place within the James Bond film franchise, and its significant cultural value to critics and fans as well as this film's important place within British cinema history more widely. Grant explains the plan to kill Bond and Tatiana, making it look like a murder-suicide committed by Bond when Tatiana revealed the blackmail film of them, planted in the compartment.

The novel was dramatised for radio in 2012 by Archie Scottney, directed by Martin Jarvis and produced by Rosalind Ayres; it featured a full cast starring Toby Stephens as James Bond and was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4. This was the first James Bond hardback edition published by Penguin Books, who held the publishing rights to the series for a decade. Complete James Bond series comprising Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. He wakes an unarmed Bond in the middle of the night to gloat before killing him as planned as the train goes into a tunnel.Kronsteen, SMERSH's chess-playing master planner, and Colonel Rosa Klebb, the head of Operations and Executions, devise the operation. The dust jacket is very good indeed, with only minimal edge wear and a small bit of bumping and creasing at the two bottom outer corners and the top back edge of the spine. The CIA director Allen Dulles (1893-1969) was a close friend of Fleming and a great champion of the Bond novels in America, actively promoting them in the American press as a means of elevating public support for secretive intelligence agencies. From Russia, with Love was released in the UK as a hardback on 8 April 1957, by the publishers Jonathan Cape. Jon Gilbert's file copy, with his pencilled notes, bookplate and ownership signature to free endpaper.

First Signet paperback edition, first printing, inscribed "To Kurt Enoch from Ian Fleming x"; ii) Diamonds are Forever, 1961.First Signet or First American paperback editions, first printings, presentation copies inscribed by the author to his American publisher, Kurt Enoch (1894-1982), the "paperback pioneer". Internally, there are a previous owner's stamp markings to the front end page, and there are closed tears to the inside edge of the last few pages. Housed in the original black cloth slipcases with black lettering on spines; and in the original large black box with the author's family crest gilt-stamped on lid. In clamshell box Richard Chopping illustrated nine dust-jackets in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, starting with From Russia, With Love. com is the official online emporium featuring products inspired by the James Bond film series, including legacy pieces and designer collaborations.