An Italian <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=From%20Russia%20with%20Love&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">From Russia with Love</a>.<ul><li>United Artists.</li><li>Produced for the first Italian release, 1964.</li><li>Paper backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Italian James Bond From Russia with Love Movie Poster

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=From%20Russia%20With%20Love&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">From Russia With Love</a>.<ul><li>Boris Grinsson (Russian, 1907-1999).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> In Sean Connery’s second outing as Bond, James Bond he willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. From Russia With Love remains on of the very best of the James Bond franchise. Boris Grinsson (1907 - 1999) was a renowned Russian born French artist famous for drawing the designs for over 2000 French film posters for American, Italian, and French films during a career spanning forty years (from the 1930s to the 1970s). He produced a vast body of work in a variety of genres, including This Gun for Hire (1942), Gilda (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1948) and From Russia with Love (1963).

French James Bond From Russia With Love Movie Poster

A French <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film From Russia with Love.<ul><li>Boris Grinsson (Russian, 1907-1999).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>French Grande film poster.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> In Sean Connery's second outing as Bond, James Bond he willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. From Russia With Love remains on of the very best of the James Bond franchise. Boris Grinsson (1907 - 1999) was a renowned Russian born French artist famous for drawing the designs for over 2000 French film posters for American, Italian, and French films during a career spanning forty years (from the 1930s to the 1970s). He produced a vast body of work in a variety of genres, including This Gun for Hire (1942), Gilda (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1948) and From Russia with Love (1963).

A British <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film From Russia with Love.<ul><li>Eric Pulford (British, 1915-2005).</li><li>Renato Fratini (Italian, 1932-1973).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Eric Pulford was responsible for designing hundreds of film posters during his long career. Pulford ran Downton Advertising agency, which held the Rank account and accounts with most of the other large studios. He was instrumental in bringing Renato Fratini, an Italian commercial artist, to London, and collaborated with him on many poster campaigns. Often Pulford produced the design and Fratini did the painting. This was the only British Bond poster campaign that Fratini worked on, and is undoubtedly one of the most famous and collectable posters in the Bond series.

British James Bond From Russia with Love Movie Poster

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> book From Russia with Love, by Ian Fleming, which has been <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> by the author.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.</li><li>Inscribed by Fleming to R. Singleton-Ward&nbsp;.</li><li>Bound in the original black boards with silver titles on spine, red rose and metallic gun to the front board, in the rare dust wrapper.</li></ul> The book is inscribed with the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front endpaper, ‘To R. Singleton-Ward/ In (I hope)/Gratitude/ Ian Fleming/ 1957.’ Singleton-Ward was born in Droitwich at the turn of the century and studied as a masseur and physiotherapist in the area and was certainly still operating in the area in the 1940s. Singleton-Ward operated in Harley Street as a specialist physiotherapist in the 1950s and 1960s. This is born out in his book, My Two Hands Talk, published by Christopher Johnson in the same year as From Russia With Love, 1957. It is possible that Fleming used the book as background (as he had for Patrick Leigh Fermor’s, Traveller’s Tree for Live and Let Die) for the health clinic scenes in the book of Thunderball, either introduced to the text by a member of the publishing house, or introduced to it by one of the man Harley Street specialists he used to visit. There is a no coincidence perhaps that Thunderball (published 4 years later) opens with Bond on the physiotherapist’s table having a massage. It is possible that Singleton-Ward was able to give Fleming some background about this. The association in the presentation inscription suggests they were close or certainly friends. The rare use of Fleming's full name and date in an inscription (1957) is evidence of this. With the early Bond books, he invariably preferred to use just his Christian name or the more formal "The Author". Singleton-Ward’s address appears as 46 Portland Place W1 in 1965 (London Phone Book), but no trace after this with no mention after 1965 in the British General Chiropractors register/council.

James Bond From Russia With Love Inscribed First Edition

A French <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=From+Russia+with+Love&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">From Russia with Love</a>.<ul><li>Boris Grinsson (Russian, 1907-1999).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Produced for the first French release, 1964.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

French From Russia with Love / Bons Baisers de Russie Movie Poster

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel From Russia With Love by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ian+Fleming&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.</li><li>The dust wrapper is finely illustrated by Richard Chopping, and has been neatly clipped.</li></ul> The fifth title in the James Bond series. One the original 15,000 printed in 1957.

From Russia With Love First Edition

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Ian Fleming Centenary Edition. London: Queen Anne Press, 2008 18 volumes, ONE OF 26 LETTERED SETS (THIS SET LETTER "M"), of a total edition of 406, 8vo, each volume in special pictorial bindings by Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe in dark blue morocco gilt onlaid with various coloured designs (in red, yellow, pink, green etc), each volume according to theme (Casino Royale with playing cards, From Russia with Love with design of Moscow, On her Majesty's Secret Service with Alpine ski resort etc), the spine of Diamonds are Forever incorporating a diamond, hand-sewn head- and tail-bands, all edges gilt, handmade watermarked endpapers, the text designed and typeset by Libanus Press, each volume in specially made blue cloth slipcase lettered in gilt, the set preserved in black cloth presentation box with Ian Fleming's crest in gilt on the lid A SPECTACULAR EDITION CELEBRATING THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF IAN FLEMING, FINELY BOUND BY SHEPHERDS, SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE. During his lifetime Fleming was the author of seventeen published books: twelve James Bond novels, starting with Casino Royale (1953), two volumes of Bond short stories; a book of travel journalism, Thrilling Cities; a nonfictional account of the diamond trade, The Diamond Smugglers, and the children's book, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. This collected edition—in fact the first of its kind ever published—adds Talk of the Devil, a collection of rarely seen material (some unpublished), as well as explanatory comments written by Fleming in the flyleaves of his personal copies. "M" is James Bond's boss and head of the British Secret Service, a composite character probably based on Rear-Admiral John Godfrey (Fleming's former boss in the Department of Naval Intelligence), Maxwell Knight, former head of counter-subversion in MI5 and Maurice Buckmaster, head of the F Section of the SOE. In the James Bond film franchise, the character has been played by Bernard Lee (until 1979), Judi Dench, and Ralph Fiennes. PROVENANCE: Sale in these rooms, 17 December 2009, lot 100

View 1 of Lot 59: Ian Fleming | The Centenary Edition, 2008, 18 volumes, one of 26 lettered sets (letter "M")

ian fleming | the centenary edition, 2008, 18 volumes, one of 26 lettered sets (letter "m")

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Fleming, Ian You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 8vo. Copyright page with "First published 1964"; foxing to preliminary leaves, slightly toned, a few stray stains. Original black Type C cloth, Gilbert's Binding A, upper board lettered with Japanese characters in gilt, spine lettered in silver; cocked, corners lightly bumped, edges foxed, offsetting to endpapers affecting inscription. Original pictorial jacket by Richard Chopping, bamboo-patterned endpapers; jacket chipped and rubbed at extremities with some loss, spine sunned, a few stray spots and stains. First impression, first state, inscribed by the author to Robert Kennedy: "To Robert Kennedy with celestial good wishes! From Ian Fleming." In the early 1960s, a friendship developed between Fleming and Robert Kennedy, largely as a result of his brother John F. Kennedy's love for the James Bond series. Fleming and the future president had a storied meeting in March 1960, in which the Bond author proposed some creative approaches to American foreign policy in Castro's Cuba, and John quickly became fascinated by the British author's allure. Fleming went on to send inscribed copies of his books to John and Robert Kennedy as well as their sister Eunice over the years. In fact, this very presentation copy is mentioned in Pearson's biography of Fleming: "'I wish someone else could read it also,' said a black-edged card written to Fleming in the spring of 1964 by the Attorney-General of the U.S., Robert Kennedy, thanking him for 'You Only Live Twice'" (Pearson). Indeed, John F. Kennedy listed From Russia, With Love as one of his 10 favorite books in a Life magazine article, and "it would be hard to over-estimate [the president's endorsement's] importance in the development of the cult of James Bond in the United States" (Pearson). Fleming recognized the boost garnered by Kennedy's support, writing to Robert Kennedy in 1962, "I am delighted to take this opportunity to thank Kennedys everywhere for the electric effect their commendation has had on my sales in America." REFERENCES Gilbert A12a(1.1); Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming, p. 323–7

View 1 of Lot 408: Fleming, Ian | You Only Live Twice, presentation copy to Robert Kennedy

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