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in very good condition indeed with occasional dustiness to the covers and odd marks. $12,000 An extensive collection of early Faber cards signed and given by T.S.El - iot. Faber began producing a consistent series of Christmas cards in 1945 to celebrate the end of the Second World War. The first five cards (1945+1950, no card issued in 1947) were all illustrated by Barnett Freed - man and finely printed on rag paper by the Curwen Press. The 1948 card designated them as, “for the directors and members of Messrs. Faber & Faber to send to their friends”. All five of the inital Freedman cards are present in this collection as well
AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY FLEMING, Ian LIVE AND LET DIE Cape, 1954 [46129] First edition, first state. Original black boards with gilt titles and vignette, in printed dustwrapper. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to author and fellow Jamaican resident, Esther Chapman, “To Esther As grist for her ball point. from Ian. p.s. with love” A near fine copy with a little foxing to the preliminary pages in a very good dustwrapper indeed which shows a little wear to the spine ends and is a touch dusty to the rear panel. $77,500 A fine association copy of the the second James Bond novel. Esther Chap - man was an expatriate author and journalist living in Jamaica. She wrote a couple of novels set on the island as well as the highly regarded Plea - sure Island, a guide book to Jamaica published in 1951, which Fleming reviewed for the Sunday Times as, “[written] with intelligence and com - mon sense... Esther Chapman has done a great service to the Jamaica.” Both were part of the expatriate community on the island in the mid-20th century and shared connections through the creative and social circles of that era. While there isn’t much documentation of their interactions, it is likely they were well acquainted given the small, tight-knit nature of the literary and expatriate community in Jamaica during that period. Fleming presentations with literary associations, particularly those con- nected to his second home of Jamaica are rare. FLEMING, Ian DR. NO Cape, 1958 [45839] First edition. Original black cloth with silhouette of dancer on the upper board mirroring the pictorial Marriott designed dust - wrapper. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with the slightest wear to the spine ends and a faint stain to the rear pan- el. $2,850 FLEMING, Ian GOLDFINGER Cape, 1959 [46429] First edition. 8vo. Original black boards with blind-stamped skull and gilt coins to the upper cover, in pictorial dustwrapper by Richard Chopping. A near fine book in a very good dustwrap - per, with some browning to the spine and edges. $2,150
as 1952 illustrated by Edward Bawden, 1953 by Edward Ardiz- zone, 1956 by Alan Howard, 1957 by André François and 1958 by Gerald Rose.
FLEMING, Ian FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Short stories compris- ing: From a View to a Kill; For Your Eyes Only; Quantum of So -
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