Casino Royale (1953)
The first James Bond novel.
Author
Publication History
First Editions
- London: Jonathan Cape.
Later British Hardbacks
- London: Viking, 2002. ISBN 0-670-89993-3
- London: Penguin, 2008. ISBN 978-0-718-15383-0
- London: Folio Society, 2015.
- London: Vintage, 2017. With an introduction by John Cork. ISBN 978-1-784-87199-4
British Paperbacks
- London: Coronet, 1988. ISBN 0-340-42567-9
- London: Penguin, 2002. ISBN 0-141-00247-6
- London: Penguin, 2004. ISBN 0-141-18758-1
- London: Penguin, 2006. With an introduction by Jeffery Deaver. ISBN 0-141-02830-0
- London: Penguin, 2006. ISBN 0-141-02869-6
- London: Penguin, 2008? (2004). Later printing with different cover. ISBN 978-0-141-18758-7
- London: Penguin, 2009. ISBN 978-0-141-04496-5
- London: Vintage, 2012. ISBN 978-0-099-57597-9
- London: Vintage, 2012. With an introduction by Alan Judd. ISBN 978-0-099-57685-3
- London: Vintage, 2018. With an introduction by Anthony Horowitz. ISBN 978-0-099-57597-9
Later American Hardbacks
- New York: MJF Books, 1994. ISBN 1-56731-056-7
- Shelton, CT: First Edition Library, 1995. Slipcased replica of the British Jonathan Cape first edition.
American Book Clubs
- New York: Macmillan.
American Paperbacks
- You Asked for It. New York: Popular Library, 1955. Paperback.
- New York: Signet, 1960. Paperback.
- New York: Penguin, 2002. ISBN 0-14-200202-X
- Las Vegas: Thomas and Mercer, 2012. ISBN 978-1-61218543-9
Reviews
- Booklist, 15 September 1990, p. 187. Audiobook review of Casino Royale.
- H. Fausset, Guardian (UK), 17 April 1953, p. 4.
- Kirkus Reviews, 1 February 1954, p. 74.
- Grove Koger, “The Spying Game: Deciphering the Best Novels of Intrigue,” Library Journal, 1 September 1993, pp. 142–143.
- Lilliput, May/June 1953, p. 109.
- Listener, 1953.
- J. D. Scott, New Statesman and Nation, 9 May 1953, pp. 557–558.
- Anthony Boucher, Criminals at Large, New York Times Book Review, 25 April 1954, p. 27.
- F. Wyndham, Punch, 6 May 1953, p. 558.
- L. G. Offord, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 1954, p. 12.
- Sergeant Cuff, The Criminal Record, Saturday Review, 24 April 1954, p. 37.
- R. D. Charques, Spectator, 17 April 1953, p. 494.
- Springfield Republican, 2 May 1954, p. 9C.
- Christopher Pym, “Cards on the Table,” Sunday Times, 12 April 1953, p. 5.
- Time, 29 March 1954, p. 98.
- “Spies and Charlatans,” Times Literary Supplement, 17 April 1953, p. 249.
Contained in
Gilt-Edged Bonds (1961)
Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense (Reader's Digest 1974),
abridgement
(621–718)
Ian Fleming (1980)
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker (2003)
James Bond 007: Five Complete Novels (1988)
The James Bond Collection (2012)
A James Bond Quartet (1992)
The Spy's Bedside Book (Greene and Greene 1957),
excerpt
titled “Blanc de Blanc Brut, 1943”
(#44)