New York: Viking Press, 1961. 248 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2"; Book Club edition; Illustrated dust jacket has some rubbing and discoloration, corner bumping, still in very good condition; Black cloth over boards with blue edging, crisp gilt lettering on spine, minor edgewear, in very good + condition.

The ninth book in the James Bond series and the eighth full-length Bond novel, adapted to the movies in 1965 starring Sean Connery as Bond and Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo, the guy with the swimming pool filled with sharks.