The novel was twice made into a film, each titled Casino Royale: a 1967 Bond spoof with an all-star cast headed by Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, and Woody Allen and the 2006 thriller, starring Daniel Craig in his first outing as Bond and Judi Dench as M. Almost singlehandedly, he revived popular interest in the spy novel, spawning legions of imitations, parodies, and critical and fictional reactions… Through the immense success of the filmed versions of his books, his character James Bond became the best known fictional personality of his time and Fleming the most famous writer of thrillers since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” (Reilly, 571). “Fleming accomplished an extraordinary amount in the history of the thriller. Octavo, original dark green cloth, original dust jacket.įirst American edition, first printing, of Fleming’s first book, in first-issue dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE FIRST JAMES BOND NOVEL, CASINO ROYALEįLEMING, Ian.
