Ian Fleming

A first edition, first printing of the James Bond novel For Your Eyes Only, inscribed by the author to Nancy Cunard.

• Ian Fleming (English).
• London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.
• Signed presentation inscription from the author "To Nancy [Cunard] with one warm kiss from Ian" to front free endpaper, below ink inscription in another hand.
• In the unclipped dust wrapper, original black boards with white eye to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box.

Nancy Cunard (1896–1965) was a British writer, publisher, and political activist known for her influential role in modernist culture and anti-racist advocacy. Born into the prominent Cunard shipping family, she rejected aristocratic convention and immersed herself in the artistic circles of London and Paris.

In the late 1920s, she founded the Hours Press, publishing innovative writers such as Samuel Beckett and Ezra Pound. Her most significant achievement was editing the Negro Anthology (1934), a groundbreaking 900-page collection documenting Black culture, history, and oppression across the diaspora. Cunard was a committed anti-fascist, campaigning actively during the Spanish Civil War and speaking out against racism in Europe and America.

The Flemings were known to have attended parties hosted and including Cunard in the 1950s-60s.