57 FLEMING, Ian – BOND, Mary Wickham. How 007 Got His Name. London: Collins, 1966 inscribed by the real james bond First edition, inscribed by the author and her husband James Bond on the front free endpaper: “To Sarah and Bill, with Democratic wishes (R–L? or L–R?) from Mary Wickham Bond. April 8 1967” and “From a Republican. James Bond”. While copies signed by the author occasionally appear in commerce, those signed by the subject are evidently scarce. Mary Wickham Bond provides an account of her husband James Bond, an ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming took for his legendary fictional spy. It includes a description and illustration of the sole meeting between Ian Fleming and James Bond on 5 February 1964 at the former’s Goldeneye estate: “Their meeting was dramatic, – unrehearsed, a spur of the moment affair, and went off with a flair” (p. 29). From the Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b. 1940), with his bookplate. Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Half-tone frontispiece from a photograph of James Bond, similar plate illustrating Bond’s meeting with Ian Fleming; illustrations of birds at the beginning of each chapter. Boards bright, spotting to endpapers, couple of pages with faint damp stains to fore margins, contents unaffected and clean. A very good copy indeed in price- clipped dust jacket, light sunning to spine and splash marks to fold ends, nicks to ends and corners, 2.5 cm closed tear at
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