Ian Fleming—Kenneth Lewis | From Russia, With Love, unused concept design for dust-jacket, [1957/1990s]

Ian Fleming--Kenneth Lewis

From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, with mock-up dust-jacket, collector's black cloth clamshell box

[with:]

Unused concept design for the dust-jacket, gouache colour on art paper, SIGNED, numbered 005, double-mounted, framed (60.8 x 38cm), circa 1990s

Kenneth Lewis (1926-2013) produced the first three dust-jacket designs for the James Bond series, and was consulted by Ian Fleming regarding a design for From Russia, With Love. Kenneth introduced the rose motif to accompany the handgun lent to Fleming by armourer Geoffrey Boothroyd. In later years, Lewis painted a limited numbered run to the same specification as the original, unused design. This framed concept design heralds from that run, produced circa 1990s.