(The first four titles had already been released as pulps by Popular Library and Perma Books in the 1950s.) Signet's From Russia With Love, Doctor No, Goldfinger and For Your Eyes Only are the true first U.S. release, not in chronological order of the books themselves. I've laid out the Signets here in the unusual order of their original U.S. But before Signet unleashed their familiar paperback series, they released earlier editions with terrific covers that are now highly collectible.
These mass produced books are how most Americans came to know James Bond 007.
knows that the paperbacks released by Signet in the 1960s dominate the shelves of used bookstores. Anyone who has ever gone in search of second-hand copies of Ian Fleming's James Bond books in the U.S.
