Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love vintage paperback book by Pan.

The book is in reasonable condition given its age (see photos).

There is an inscription of the price on the first page.

It is the fifth novel by English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond.

Fleming wrote the novel in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica ; at the time he thought it might be his final James Bond book.

The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit him and his organisation.

As bait, the Russians use a beautiful cypher clerk Tatiana Romanova and Specktor, a Soviet decoding machine.

Much of the action takes place in Istanbul and on the Orient Express.