<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>, Binding A, of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Ian%2520Fleming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming's</a> On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which was filmed by Eon Productions in 1969, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. OHMSS is the first novel in which <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> and Blofeld meet in person, with tragic consequences leading to a personal vendetta for 007.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>Dust jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.</li><li>pp.288.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original dust jacket</li><li>Housed in a custom black cloth-covered clamshell box, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine.</li></ul>

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

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 You Only Live Twice, 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, 1964.</li><li>Signed and inscribed to Aubrey Forshaw.</li><li>With presentation note in blue ink to flyleaf; 'To / Forshaw-san / from / Fleming-san [underline].'</li><li>Publisher’s black cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers, in original pictorial dust-wrapper by Richard Chopping.</li></ul> This is the first issue with ‘First published 1964’ to the copyright page. This copy was presented by Ian Fleming to Aubrey Forshaw. The inscription incorporates the traditional Japanese honorary title ‘san’, used to show respect to the person being mentioned. In the novel, Tiger Tanaka, the head of the Japanese Secret Service, refers to 007 throughout as ‘Bondo-san’. Fleming used this device only when inscribing the book to his closest friends and colleagues. Examples presented in this way include: “Brilliant Chopping-san” [for the jacket artist Richard Chopping], “Dikko-san” [Richard Hughes, journalist and model for the character 'Dikko Henderson' in the novel], “Connolly-san” [author Cyril Connolly], and “From Fleming-san” [to Sunday Times editor Denis Hamilton, the dedicatee of Fleming's Thrilling Cities]. The present 'Forshaw-san' is thus far unrecorded. Forshaw was Managing Director at Pan Books from 1952, following the death of its founder Alan Bott. The first Bond novel Casino Royale was published as a Pan edition in 1955 and each subsequent Bond novel would be published by Pan, as well as Fleming’s other three books The Diamond Smugglers, Thrilling Cities and Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. In The Man With the Golden Typewriter, letters between Fleming and Forshaw are included on pages 319, 321, 322 and 371. It also appears that Fleming consulter Forshaw about the details of Bond’s Bentley Continental. The car was owned by Fleming and was driven and one by Bond in the film Thunderball. One of the letters from The Man With The Golden Typewriter from Forshaw to Fleming is an invite to an awards dinner to celebrate the fact that Casino Royale has sold over a million copies. By the 1960’s Pan was the second-largest paperback publisher (after Penguin), largely thanks to the phenomenal global success of Ian Fleming and his James Bond series.

James Bond You Only Live Twice Signed and Inscribed First Edition

Uncorrected proof first edition, first printing of Fleming's novel Thrilling Cities; one of 175 copies printed.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.</li><li>Limited printing of 175 copies.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original pictorial printed wrappers.</li></ul>

Thrilling Cities (Uncorrected Proof, First Edition, first Printing)

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/search?query=James%20Bond&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1953.</li><li>With the first issue dust-jacket, without the Sunday Times review, in the rare unclipped wrapper.</li></ul> Casino Royale is the first novel by Fleming and the first appearance of James Bond, one of the 20th Century’s most enduring characters.

Casino Royale

The <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first United Kingdom edition</a> of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> book Moonraker y <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, 1955.</li><li>Dust wrapper designed by Kenneth Lewis has not been price clipped, showing the correct price; publisher’s black boards, with the titles to the front panel and spine in silver gilt.</li></ul> The third title in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. This is the ‘second state’, showing ‘shoot’ rather than ‘shoo’ on the tenth page.

Moonraker | First Edition, First Printing

Stunning signed onlaid leather binding by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe of&nbsp;The Diamond Smugglers,&nbsp;part of&nbsp;The Works of Ian Fleming,&nbsp;which is considered the definitive collection of his works.&nbsp;<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Queen Anne Press, 2008.</li><li>Limited to 56 lettered editions (26 lettered according to the English alphabet and 30 lettered according to the Russian alphabet), with this volume being Russian letter 3 (English translation is Z).</li><li>Bound in full morocco with a pictorial onlaid leather multicolored design that follows the theme of the book and includes a diamond on the cover, and hand-sewn headbands, handmade watermarked endpapers and all edges gilt, with binders stamp in gilt on the bottom of the inside back cover.</li><li>Housed in a blue silk cloth slipcase with leather entry and the title appears in gold gilt on the spine.</li></ul> From the Ian Fleming Estate and Publications, “On September 15, 1957, Ian Fleming’s true account of diamond smuggling in Africa was serialized by the&nbsp;Sunday Times. The articles were then bound together and published as a book the following year. The million carat network…that was the name given by the men of the International Diamond Security Organization to a fantastic smuggling racket which spirited away ten million pounds worth of diamonds from Africa every year. That was the challenge which faced ex-MI-5 Chief, Sir Percy Sillitoe and his anti-smuggling squad. Master thriller-writer Ian Fleming tells the true story of the fight against the web of intrigue which covered two continents — and it is as exciting and gripping as any work of fiction."

The Diamond Smugglers

A signed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first United Kingdom edition</a> of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=james%20bond&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel, Thunderball.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.</li><li>Inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper: “To/ Wing Commander Dobson/ for/ his very kind help!/ from/ Ian Fleming”.</li><li>Presented in dust jacket.</li></ul> Wing Commander Dobson was introduced to Fleming by Joan Saunders who ran the Writers and Speakers Research Agency. In “The Man with the Golden Typewriter” he is mentioned in a letter dated 5th September 1961 from Fleming to Saunders. A superb Association Copy with the – unusual – full use of Ian Fleming’s name. He tended to use more often than not the rather more formal “The Author” or the jocular “Ian” in his inscriptions.

Thunderball (Signed UK First Edition)

&nbsp;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 Dr. No, <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">signed</a> by Eunice Gayson and Charles Edghill.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.</li><li>Signed on the title page by the actress Eunice Gayson, who played the character ‘Sylvia Trench’ in the 1962 motion picture of Dr No.&nbsp;</li><li>Additionally signed by Charles Edghill, who played one of the ‘Three Blind Mice,’ on the rear of the half-title page.</li><li>Presented in the dustwrapper.</li></ul> Dr. No is the sixth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1958. It follows British spy James Bond as he investigates the disappearance of two agents in Jamaica, leading to the mysterious Dr. No, a reclusive villain with a deadly plan. The 1962 film adaptation, starring Sean Connery in his debut as Bond, launched the iconic movie franchise. Set in the Caribbean, the film features classic Bond elements: espionage, action, gadgets, and glamorous women. Dr. No’s lair, Ursula Andress’s beach entrance, and Connery’s suave performance made the film a pop culture milestone and a blueprint for future Bond films.

Dr. No

First impressions of the Centenary edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>’s James Bond novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14.</li><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds Are Forever; From Russia With Love; Dr. No; Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball; The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; You Only Live Twice; The Man with the Golden Gun; Octopussy and The Living Daylights.</li><li>London: Penguin, 2008.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>One of 4,000 copies.</li><li>Bound in original silver-stamped black cloth in illustrated dust jackets.</li></ul>

The James Bond Collection

First Edition of Fleming's enduring classic.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape,&nbsp;[1965].</li><li>221 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Second state, without stamped gold gun on upper board.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in full cloth, with dustjacket and open-faced slipcases.</li></ul>

The Man with the Golden Gun

First edition, first printing uncorrected proof of the James Bond novel You Only Live Twice.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1964.</li><li>Limited to approximately 500 copies.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original pictorial printed wrappers.</li></ul>

You Only Live Twice

A set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first editions</a> of The Blofeld Trilogy, signed by the author, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ian%20Fleming&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>Comprised of Thunderball, On Her Majesty’s Service, and You Only Live Twice.</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1961-1964.</li><li>Each is signed by Fleming on the front free endpapers.</li><li>Bound in publisher's black cloth, in dust wrappers.</li></ul> The books were given to Una Trueblood by Fleming in 1960s. Una Trueblood was Fleming’s secretary at Kemsley. She typed up the television treatment that Fleming later developed into the novel Doctor No and, like many of Fleming’s acquaintances, she gives her name to a character in the novel: Mary Trueblood, secretary to the MI6 station in Jamaica. In the story, Mary Trueblood was a former Chief Officer WRNS and secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service’s Caribbean station based in Jamaica. After assassinating Strangways for prying into Dr. Julius No’s business, his killers proceed to the station and murder Trueblood during her scheduled contact with London. Both she and Strangways are placed in a weighted coffin and dumped in the Mona Reservoir; sinking into a fifty-fathom grave as the station and its records burn to the ground. After an official investigation is launched into their disappearance, the head of the Secret Service, M, noting her good looks, floats the idea that they might have run off together. Una Trueblood, a real-life Miss Moneypenny, worked for over ten years as Fleming’s secretary at The Sunday Times. She was known as ‘a demon typist’ and typed the manuscripts of Fleming’s Bond novels upon his return from Jamaica each year. Trueblood was mentioned in Fleming’s Thrilling Cities and was known by Fleming for her professionalism and fastidiousness. Una once spoke of her boss’s move into literature: “He always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book, because he was on the plane to Jamaica and he read such a bad, boring thriller that he thought he could do better himself.”

Signed First Editions of The Blofeld Trilogy

Signed <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> copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Ian%2520Fleming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Flemings'</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=james%20bond&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en&amp;filters.type=Buy%20Now" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel You Only Live Twice.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, March 1964.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Jonathan from Ian'.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in publisher's black boards blocked in silver and gilt, bamboo effect endpapers, with the illustrated dust-jacket&nbsp;.</li></ul>

You Only Live Twice (Signed First Edition)

Complete paperback <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> collection of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Ian%2520Fleming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming’s</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14.</li><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds Are Forever; From Russia With Love; Dr. No; Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball; The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; You Only Live Twice; The Man with the Golden Gun; Octopussy and The Living Daylights.</li><li>London: Pan Books, 1955-1967.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s illustrated softcovers.</li></ul>

The James Bond Collection | Complete First Edition Set

<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 Ian Fleming's <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James%20Bond&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel From Russia With Love.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>Dust jacket art by Richard Chopping.</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.</li><li>Signed by dust wrapper artist Richard Chopping on the front end-flap.</li><li>Red embossed title with gun and rose motif, presented in clamshell box.</li></ul> Richard Chopping illustrated nine dust-jackets in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, starting with From Russia, With Love. His covers are instantly recognizable for their trompe-l’œil style and use of tea chest font. The fifth title in the James Bond series.

From Russia, With Love

<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 impression, Binding A, of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Ian%2520Fleming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming's</a> first selection of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> short stories, which was followed by Octopussy and The Living Daylights; this collection includes For Your Eyes Only, A View to a Kill andQuantum of Solace, all of which were adapted as part of the 007 movie series.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>Dust jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.</li><li>pp.252.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s black cloth-effect paper over boards, lettered in gilt, in original pictorial dust jacket.</li><li>Housed in a custom black cloth-covered clamshell box, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine.</li></ul>

For Your Eyes Only (first edition, first impression)

Stunning signed onlaid leather binding by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe of&nbsp;Diamonds Are Forever,&nbsp;part of&nbsp;The Works of Ian Fleming,&nbsp;which is considered the definitive collection of his works.&nbsp;<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Queen Anne Press, 2008.</li><li>Limited to 56 lettered editions (26 lettered according to the English alphabet and 30 lettered according to the Russian alphabet), with this volume being Russian letter 3 (English translation is Z).</li><li>Bound in full morocco with a pictorial onlaid leather multicolored design that follows the theme of the book and includes a diamond on the spine, and hand-sewn headbands, handmade watermarked endpapers and all edges gilt, with binders stamp in gilt on the bottom of the inside back cover.</li><li>Housed in a blue silk cloth slipcase with leather entry and the title appears in gold gilt on the spine.</li></ul> From the Ian Fleming Estate and Publications, “The fourth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming published in 1956. An international diamond-smuggling pipeline has opened up and the British Treasury wants to know who’s controlling it. Impersonating a captured courier named Peter Franks, Bond infiltrates the criminal ring and finds an unlikely ally in Tiffany Case, a gorgeous American with a dark past. As the ring’s stateside go-between, she may be just another link in the chain, but Tiffany is also Bond’s best shot at finding the elusive figure at the head of the operation—a syndicate boss known only by the initials "ABC." But if Bond’s cover gets blown, he’ll find that the only thing harder than a diamond is surviving the payback of a pair of murderous henchmen. With a sparkling trail of smuggled gems as bait,&nbsp;Diamonds Are Forever&nbsp;leads Bond on a globe-hopping mission where deadly assassins lurk behind every corner."

Diamonds Are Forever

First edition, first impression of the tenth Bond novel.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape,&nbsp;1962.</li><li>221 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in black cloth with silver lettering and knife design on cover.</li></ul> The tenth Bond novel. During its composition, Fleming had considered killing off his famous spy for the third time, after From Russia, With Love and Thunderball, but this time it was for different reasons. Fleming "had become alarmed that his earlier thrillers, designed for an adult audience, were increasingly read in schools...where young people made a hero out of James Bond...He did not regard Bond as a heroic figure 'but only as an efficient professional in his job.' Therefore he had sought to write a 'cautionary tale' to put the record straight, particularly for his younger readers" (Lycett, 401–402). Bond himself doesn't appear until the end of the book.

The Spy Who Loved Me

<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>, Binding A of the last original <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> work by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Ian%2520Fleming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>Dust jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1966.</li><li>pp. 95.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards, blocked in silver, patterned grey endpapers with pictorial dust jacket.</li><li>Housed in a custom black cloth-covered clamshell box, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine.</li></ul> First published in Britain on 23rd June 1966, this is the final original James Bond book from creator Ian Fleming, containing two short adventures: the title novella plus&nbsp;The Living Daylights. These were later successfully filmed by EON productions with Bond played by Roger Moore (Octopussy, 1983) and Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, 1987).

Octopussy

Deluxe limited edition and one of a handful of copies marked out of series, first hardcover edition of Ian Fleming The Book Collector. <ul><li>James Fleming, Fergus Fleming, John Cork, Jon Gilbert and others (British).</li><li>Edited by James Fergusson (British).</li><li>Consultant Editor, Nicolas Barker (British).</li><li>London: Queen Anne Press, 2017.</li><li>Signed by Fergus Fleming, co-publisher at Queen Anne Press, and his brother James publisher of The Book Collector, Ian Fleming's nephews and additionally signed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, all three authors have written essays contained herein.</li><li>pp.x;150; [viii] Endmatter.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Numerous pages of illustrations, some in color, several not used in the original journal publication.</li><li>Deluxe copies include an exclusive insert within a map-pocket at the rear, reproducing the 1957 promotional leaflet written by Ian Fleming and designed by his friend Robert Harling.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s half black buckram over comb-marbled boards, yellow endpapers cloth with gilt lettering and ornament, black endpapers, contrasting red and black end-bands.</li></ul> To celebrate its 65th anniversary, The Book Collector magazine devoted its Spring 2017 issue to Ian Fleming, who had launched the publication in 1952. Essays were provided by editors old and new, family and colleagues of the author, as well as Fleming scholars, historians, bibliophiles and regular Book Collector contributors.

Ian Fleming The Book Collector

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of The Centenary Edition of the Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming.</a><ul><li>Sold as a set of 18 volumes.</li><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: The Queen Anne Press, 2008.</li><li>Bound by Shepherds, Sangorski and Sutcliffe in dark blue cloth, top edge gilt, with gilt-titled leather labels to backstrips, upper covers gilt-stamped with the author’s initials, and gilt imprint of the publisher to rear, housed in a fully enclosed presentation box with ribbon-pulls, gilt-stamped with the Fleming crest to the lid.</li></ul> The definitive edition of Ian Fleming’s works, issued to commemorate the birth of the author; no such edition has been published before. Number 29 of 250 sets thus. The set comprises 14 volumes of the James Bond novels, the non-fiction volumes The Diamond Smugglers and Thrilling Cities plus the children’s story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. The final volume, entitled Talk of the Devil, contains rarely seen material including two stories, some of which is unpublished. The Queen Anne Press was created by Lord Kemsley, proprietor of the Sunday Times, where Fleming was employed as Foreign Editor. In 1952, as a wedding gift, Kemsley made Fleming the managing director of the press, where he remained until his death in 1964. The Press is today managed by his niece and nephew, following its acquisition by Fleming’s literary estate.

The Centenary Edition of the Works of Ian Fleming

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 Casino Royale, 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, 1953.</li><li>Inscribed to Lisl Popper.</li></ul> Inscribed to the front endpaper by the Author - ‘To Lisl/Despite whose loving/care this book was/written/X/Ian.' Ian Fleming first met Lisl Popper (then Lisa Jokl) at age nineteen during the "golden time" at Kitzbuhel in Austria in 1926. She was eight years older than Fleming, and worked a local cafe. Described as a "plain-looking Jewish girl", she and her friends first spotted young Fleming when he walked into their cafe and ordered coffee. As was usual for Fleming, he sat and read a book by himself. Lisl recalled his appearance "with sleepy blue eyes and a romantic face" - but his good looks were not the only factor attracting the girls. He wore a navy blue knitted shirt of a kind which had never been seen in Kutzbhel before. Fleming soon became acquainted with Lisl and her friends at the cafe and her simple outdoor lifestyle appealed to Fleming immensely - skiing in winter, and swimming and tennis in the summer. Another physical activity - sex - kept Fleming and Lisl very active as lovers, and some years later he commented that despite the air of sexual liberation, he did show some reservation about the manner in which Austrian girls threw themselves at his young English body. Lisl and Fleming became lifelong friends, and in 1960, Fleming signed a copy of his latest James Bond installment For Your Eyes Only (a collection of five short stories) to Lisl with the personal inscription "noch ein paar Eier fr Ostern!" ("yet another pair of eggs for Easter"). It is perhaps no coincidence that the female character in the fifth short story in the collection is named Lisl Baum. Upon Fleming's death in 1964, he left Lisl £500 in his will. Lisl later said that "all the things said about Ian -- his gloom, his melancholy, his solitariness -- frankly amaze. To all of us who knew him in Kitzbuhel he was exactly the opposite -- gay, care-free, terribly happy, the most exciting and vital sort of person. Not like an Englishman at all." Lisl Popper makes a brief appearance in archive footage used in the documentary "Ian Fleming - 007's Creator" on "The Living Daylights" Special Edition DVD. This is perhaps the most important signed copy of the first installment of the James Bond series ever to come on to the market. The book had been in a private family collection until 1992, then to a prominent collector and on to another collector.

James Bond Casino Royale Inscribed First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of The Centenary Edition of the Works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming.</a><ul><li>Sold as a set of 18 volumes.</li><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Queen Anne Press, 2008.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Deluxe Limited Edition, in Vellum over black cloth sides, number 53 of just 100 copies thus.</li><li>Each volume in a black cloth slipcase, housed altogether in a double-decker black cloth box.</li></ul> The definitive edition of Ian Fleming, issued to commemorate the birth of the author; no such edition has been published before. The set comprises 14 volumes of the James Bond novels, the non-fiction volumes The Diamond Smugglers and Thrilling Cities plus the children’s story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. The final volume, entitled Talk of the Devil, contains rarely seen material including two stories, some of which is unpublished. The Queen Anne Press was created by Lord Kemsley, proprietor of the Sunday Times, where Fleming was employed as Foreign Editor. In 1952, as a wedding gift, Kemsley made Fleming the managing director of the press, where he remained until his death in 1964. The Press is today managed by his niece and nephew, following its acquisition by Fleming’s literary estate.

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 Moonraker, 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, 1955.</li><li>Inscribed to Joyce Emerson on the front end paper.</li><li>The dust wrapper is correctly priced at 10s.6d net to both the front and rear flaps.</li></ul> The inscription reads - To Joyce / The happy ghost / from / Ian Fleming / 1955. The Joyce in question was Joyce Emerson (1921-1979), a journalist by trade, who worked at The Sunday Times during the 1950's and 60’s. She befriended Fleming whilst working on the Atticus team alongside Ian Fleming. Atticus was a weekly society gossip column, which Fleming joined in the autumn of 1953 (during the release time of his first novel Casino Royale). As the inscription suggests, Emerson would (almost certainly) have ghost-written many of the pieces carrying his name. The book is free of any owner names or inscriptions, with the correctly printed SHOOT found to page 10. An incredibly scarce title to acquire, signed and inscribed by the author and more so as the inscription includes Fleming’s full name as well as the year of publication.&nbsp;

James Bond Moonraker Inscribed First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> and inscribed <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> of Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.</li><li>Inscribed to Una Trueblood, Fleming's secretary.</li><li>With unclipped dustjacket, presented in a custom clamshell box.</li></ul> Inscribed on the front endpaper by Fleming: “To Una/Who did so much of/the real work!/from/Ian Fleming.” The inscription is a warm one and Una is mentioned within the text of the book (”Take down a letter Miss Trueblood” – p. 28). Una Trueblood was Fleming’s secretary at Kemsley. She typed up the television treatment that Fleming later developed into the novel Doctor No and, like many of Fleming’s acquaintances, she gives her name to a character in the novel: Mary Trueblood, secretary to the MI6 station in Jamaica. In the story, Mary Trueblood was a former Chief Officer WRNS and secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service’s Caribbean station based in Jamaica. After assassinating Strangways for prying into Dr. Julius No’s business, his killers proceed to the station and murder Trueblood during her scheduled contact with London. Both she and Strangways are placed in a weighted coffin and dumped in the Mona Reservoir; sinking into a fifty-fathom grave as the station and its records burn to the ground. After an official investigation is launched into their disappearance, the head of the Secret Service, M, noting her good looks, floats the idea that they might have run off together. Una Trueblood, a real-life Miss Moneypenny, worked for over ten years as Fleming’s secretary at The Sunday Times. She was known as ‘a demon typist’ and typed the manuscripts of Fleming’s Bond novels upon his return from Jamaica each year. Trueblood was mentioned in Fleming’s Thrilling Cities and was known by Fleming for her professionalism and fastidiousness. Una once spoke of her boss’s move into literature: “He always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book, because he was on the plane to Jamaica and he read such a bad, boring thriller that he thought he could do better himself.”

Thrilling Cities

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First American Edition</a>, First Printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James%20Bond&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel Casino Royale by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ian%20Fleming&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;The Macmillan Company,&nbsp;1954.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>176 pages.</li><li>In pictorial dust jacket.</li></ul>

<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>, limited issue and one of only 100 copies of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Ian%2520Fleming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>: The Notes.<ul><li>John Pearson (British).</li><li>Introduction by Fergus Fleming (British).</li><li>London: Queen Anne Press, 2020.</li><li>pp.375; [1], blank.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in dark-blue Plike paper-covered boards, red endpapers, blocked in gilt to spine and front cover, semi-opaque dust jacket with printed titles.</li></ul> Never before published, these are the notes that John Pearson made in 1965 while researching The Life of Ian Fleming, which chart not only Fleming’s life—with details that never made it into the finished biography—but John’s own journey while investigating his subject. As such, they form less a series of aides memoirs than a book about writing a book. Compelling, insightful, irreverent and written in John’s inimitable style, they make an outstanding read.

Ian Fleming: The Notes

Complete American first editions of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>’s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> series.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14.</li><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds Are Forever; From Russia With Love; Dr. No; Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball; The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; You Only Live Twice; The Man with the Golden Gun; Octopussy&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Living Daylights.</li><li>New York: The Macmillan Company, The Viking Press, and the New American Library, 1955-1966.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher's hardbacks in illustrated dust-jackets.</li><li>The American edition of Octopussy was the first to be illustrated.</li></ul>

<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>, Binding A, of Thunderball, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Ian%2520Fleming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming's</a> pivotal work of the series; it was here that Fleming first introduced the world to the ultimate <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> villain, Ernest Stavro Blofeld; basis for the fourth movie in the long-running series, starring Sean Connery as 007, Claudine Auger as Domino and Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo, Spectre's No. 2.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>Dust jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.</li><li>pp.254; [2], bank.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher’s cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine, and in original dust jacket.</li><li>Housed in a custom black cloth-covered clamshell box, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine.</li></ul>

Thunderball

First printings of the Anniversary Edition of Ian Fleming’s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> Novels.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14.</li><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds Are Forever; From Russia With Love; Dr. No; Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball; The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; You Only Live Twice; The Man with the Golden Gun; Octopussy and The Living Daylights.</li><li>London: Viking / Penguin, 2002.</li><li>Small octavo.</li><li>One of 1,000 printed copies.</li><li>Cloth-bound hardcovers in photographic dust jackets by Toby MacFarlan Pond.</li></ul>

An <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> first United Kingdom edition of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel Goldfinger.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1959.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Inscribed to Sir Henry Cotton.</li><li>Bound in the original black cloth with skull motif, dust wrapper not price-clipped.</li><li>A British Book Center ticket neatly attached to the front flap of the dust wrapper.</li></ul> An inscribed and signed copy of Goldfinger. Ian Fleming has personally inscribed this first edition copy of “Goldfinger” to the British golfer, Sir Henry Cotton. Winning the Open in 1934, 1937 and 1938, Cotton is recognized as the leading British player of the time. Inscribed on the front free-endpaper: “To Henry Cotton, Who may be amused by pp.92-113, Ian Fleming”. The pages in question detail James Bond’s victory in a $10,000 grudge match with Goldfinger – Bond entering the match with a handicap of 9, the same as the author’s. The match in Goldfinger takes place at the fictional Royal St. Marks Golf Course, a location based on the Royal St. George’s at Sandwich, Kent, the club to which Fleming and Cotton were members. The game itself was based on a 1957 tournament at the Berkshire Golf Club, which partnered Ian Fleming with Open winner, Peter Thomson. Ian Fleming and Sir Henry Cotton had a good friendship – evidenced by the fact that Fleming has used his full name in the inscription, a trait usually seen when Fleming had a particularly close relationship with the recipient. Goldfinger dedicates a whole twenty-nine pages to this relationship and the game of golf, indicating how important both were to the author. Fleming was thrilled to appear as a subject in Henry Cotton’s “Golf Notes, published in Farm and Country in 1959. Cotton used photographs of golfers to illustrate particular golf swings and the problems caused by incorrectly positioned hands and feet. Ian Fleming can be seen here as ‘golfer 3’: “Celebrated author Ian Fleming is caught at a later point in his swing, and whilst his arms could be coming to a position of rest, both his feet are firmly anchored on his heels. In all three cases the body is nowhere near completely facing the hole; it is locked by the hips and ‘dead feet’.” In “Goldfinger”, Fleming has included a direct reference to Cotton’s observation regarding “that flat swing of yours” (p.102).

Goldfinger

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 Dr. No, with <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">signature</a> by actor <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sean%20Connery&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sean Connery</a>, who played James Bond in the movie adaptation.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.</li><li>Includes insert with signature of Sean Connery.</li><li>Unclipped first issue dust wrapper.</li></ul>

Dr. No First Edition, First Printing, Signed by Sean Connery

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