A second print run later that month also sold out as did a third run of more than 8,000 books published in May 1954. All 4,728 copies sold out within a month. Perhaps it was the zeitgeist at the time that led to the surge of interest in espionage fiction but Casino Royale was an instant success… in the UK at least.
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