Modesty Blaise: The Xanadu Talisman.
London: Souvenir Press, 1981. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.288. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Mike Codd, priced at £6.95. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges slightly dusty; near fine in similar jacket which is toned to the spine. The ninth Modesty Blaise spy novel, developed from the popular comic strip series chronicling a streetwise refugee-turned undercover operative who builds an international crime organisation named 'The Network'. Author Peter O'Donnell had previously adapted into comic-form Ian Fleming's James Bond novel 'Dr. No'. This copy is from the comprehensive James Bond collection assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled signature within). His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #65607
Gilbert, p.201.
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