James Bond First Editions

Senor Saint [Señor Saint].

CHARTERIS, Leslie (1907-1993).

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1959. [Crime Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.189. Elegantly hand-bound in half tan calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth spine bound in at rear. Some acceptable reading marks, brown spot to pp.8-9 at lower margin. Short episodes with the gentleman adventurer, including 'The Pearls of Peace' and 'The Revolution Racket'. Simon Templar takes a Latin-American holiday and runs into four luscious cases of larceny, swindle, murder and revolution! According to Paul Simpson (The Rough Guide to James Bond, p.47), 'The Saint' is a literary ancestor of 007, the debonair Simon Templar being a gentleman adventurer whose parallels with Bond are obvious. Item #68850

Haining; Crime Fiction p.80. Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction p116. Steinbrunner and Penzler p.349-351.

Price: £150.00