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The Jon Gilbert Collection

Ian Fleming | Octopussy and The Living Daylights, 1966, inscribed by the screenwriter

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September 22, 03:45 PM GMT

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Ian Fleming

Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966


8vo, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by the screenwriter, binding A (dark grey Excelin), original dust-jacket, collector's half morocco clamshell box


This copy contains a lengthy inscription to the bookseller Peter Kay from George MacDonald Fraser OBE, who developed Fleming's original story into a screenplay for the 1983 film starring Roger Moore and Maud Adams.

Peter Kay (bookseller); E. Joseph, London; Heritage Book Shop, Los Angeles

Gilbert A14a, p. 447.

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