All except Dr No and The Man with the Golden Gun are in the first states, and all are in the first state jackets. Moonraker is signed on the front free endpaper by Roger Moore; For Your Eyes Only is from the library of Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Dr No is in the second state binding with the Honeychile silhouette on the front cover; The Man with the Golden Gun is in the second state as usual, without the gilt gun design on the front board, which proved too expensive and was dropped after the first 940 copies had been sent abroad, here in binding B with the spine bronze-lettered; Diamonds are Forever in binding B (no priority). 14 works, octavo. Original boards, lettering and devices on some boards in gilt or colour, spines lettered in gilt, The Man with the Golden Gun in bronze. With dust jackets. Casino Royale housed in a custom morocco-backed black solander box. Bookseller’s ticket of Henry Sotheran on front pastedown of For Your Eyes Only ; neat ink ownership inscription of “Peris Sinnett Jones April 1963” on pastedowns of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service . Light foxing to top edges of Thunderball and You Only Live Twice , spines occasionally darkened, slight bumps to a few spine ends and corners with tiny concomitant chips and rubbing to otherwise very fresh jackets; shallow loss to head of Live and Let Die , a couple of short closed tears to Goldfinger and Dr. No , skinning to small patch of rear panel of From Russia with Love , a touch of worming to foot of rear panel of Thunderball , jackets of Moonraker and Dr. No price-clipped. An excellent and striking set, Casino Royale a very good copy indeed in a near-fine jacket. A full condition report is available. ¶ Gilbert A1a (1.1); A2a (1.1); A3a (1.1); A4a (1.2); A5a (1.1); A6a (1.3); A8a (1.1); A7a (1.1); A9a (1.1); A10a (1.1); A11a (1.1); A12a (1.1); A13a (1.3); A14a (1.1). £120,000 [159531]
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manager of Kemsley Newspapers: he took January and February as his annual paid leave, during which time he worked on his novels at Goldeneye on Jamaica’s north shore. Teddy was a relative of Ian Fleming’s intimate friend Ivar Bryce, who had been instrumental in finding Goldeneye for Fleming. Casino Royale , the first of the Bond novels, was first published earlier the same year. From the Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b. 1940), with his bookplate. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in red, red heart device on front cover. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco solander box. Edges foxed, sporadically affecting margins, contents clean. A very good copy in like, gently foxed jacket, not price-clipped, couple of nicks and short closed tears, a bright and sharp example.
55 FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953 presentation copy to two troublesome guests First edition, second impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To Tanis and Teddy Read and burn! from The Author. Aoüt 1953”. The married couple stayed with the Flemings at their Goldeneye estate the following year for, in Ann Fleming’s words, “twelve interminable days” (quoted in Lycett). The endless flirting between Tanis Eva Bulkeley Guinness (1908–1993) and Charles “Teddy” Edward Harold John Phillips (1907–2006), using their pet
¶ Gilbert A1a(2); The Schøyen Collection No. 3. Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming: The Man Who Created James Bond , 2012; Edward Abel Smith, Ian Fleming’s Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books , 2020, p. 159. £37,500 [155872] 56 FLEMING, Ian. Complete set of the James Bond novels and stories in first edition.
names of “Bear” and “Lion”, irritated Fleming. In early 1954, he was distracted while attempting to write Moonraker (1955). “At one stage Ian was driven to announce at the luncheon table that he and Ann were going away for a short while, and that their visitors could, of course, continue to use the house. Since Ann had not been informed of this ploy, it caused some embarrassment. Ann had to produce some clever social footwork, which only resulted in Ian accusing her of being a traitor” (Lycett). Following this confrontation, temperatures cooled; the Flemings were not driven out of their own home, and Tanis and Teddy subsequently offered their hosts two bottles of whisky as an apology. Fleming wrote the Bond novels with the assistance of an unusual clause in his contract as foreign news
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953–66 the entire run of the original james bond books
Complete set of the original sequence of James Bond novels and stories, all first editions, first impressions.
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