James Bond, Mary Wickham Bond
The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies with How 007 Got His Name
Macmillan / Collins
1947 - 1966
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A signed copy of The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, with How 007 Got His Names, inscribed by Mary Wickham Bond.
- Sold as a set of 2 books.
- James Bond (American).
- The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies.
- New York: Macmillan, 1947.
- 257 pages.
- Illustrated.
- Signed by James Bond on the title page.
- Bound in brown cloth, with map endpapers, in dust jacket.
- Mary Wickham Bond (American).
- How 007 Got His Name.
- London: Collins, 1966.
- Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Mary Wickham Bond: ‘To Essie/from her long-lost/”Squidge’/alias/Mary Wickham Bond/July 26 1966/The Stafford/London'.
Bond was an American ornithologist, specializing in birds of the Caribbean, and while living in Jamaica, met and befriended Ian Fleming, who was also an avid bird watcher. Fleming liked and decided James Bond was the name he had been searching for and used Bond’s name for the protagonist of his first novel Casino Royale and the subsequent secret service series featuring James Bond.
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Very GoodThe Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies:
In very good dust wrapper with wear, chipping, and short closed tear to the front panel.
How 007 Got His Name:
In unclipped wrapper, a trifle rubbed to corners.
Minor signs of age and handling to both.
Product is used.
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