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

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 Diamonds Are Forever 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:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape,&nbsp;1956.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, diamond grid to upper board in blind, diamond device to upper board in silver, in the dust jacket. </li></ul>

Diamonds Are Forever First Edition

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 For Your Eyes Only, <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 to <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Nancy+Cunard&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nancy Cunard</a>.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul> 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.

For Your Eyes Only | First Edition, Inscribed to Writer and Activist Nancy Cunard 

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

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)

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)

<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 <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.

The Centenary Edition of the Works of Ian Fleming

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

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>

The James Bond Collection

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> book On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 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, 1963.</li><li>Signed and inscribed to Joss Pender.</li></ul> Inscribed by the author on the front free end-paper: "To/ Joss/ from/ Ian/ 1963." With the former owner's name Pender and date in his own hand on the front paste-down. Joss Pender was a member with Ian Fleming of the Royal St George's Golf Club in Kent. Pender and Fleming were contemporaries at Eton. They died within a year of each other at relatively young ages. The families were subsequently to be linked through marriage and Denison-Penders and Flemings can still be found playing golf together at Sandwich to this day.&nbsp;

James Bond On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Signed and Inscribed First Edition

A <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>, 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 Live And Let Die 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>London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.</li><li>Raymond Chandler’s ownership stamp to flyleaf (dated May 24 1954).</li><li>Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in gilt, design to upper board in gilt, in the dust wrapper with Kenneth Lewis’ acknowledgement to the front flap.</li></ul> A superb association copy between the two masters of their genres. Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler began a friendship in 1955, during a dinner at Stephen Spender’s, and it lasted the remaining four years of Chandler’s life. He inscribed a copy of his final novel, Playback for Fleming and received a warmly inscribed copies of Moonraker and Goldfinger from the Bond creator. Their relationship had perhaps the most profound effect on Fleming and his literary career. By the time the two men meet, Fleming was finished with Bond, having “convinced himself that he had gone as far as with writing about James Bond as he ever would or could” (Pearson, pages 232-233). It was in large part thanks to Chandler’s encouragement that Fleming was persuaded not to abandon Bond after the first two literary instalments, but rather to give him greater depth.

Live And Let Die (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/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> book Live and Let Die, 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, 1954.</li><li>Inscribed to Muriel Williams&nbsp;.</li><li>The book is accompanied by the correct first state dust wrapper without the artist's (Kenneth Lewis] credit on the front flap, correctly priced at 10s.6d. net to both the front and rear flaps.</li></ul> Inscribed by the author on the front free end-paper: "To/ MW/ The faithful &amp;/ true!/ from/ The Author". With an additional ownership inscription and date (1954) of M J Williams on the front paste-down. Muriel Williams (often referred to as MJW or MW) was Fleming's Assistant at Kemsley Newspapers when he was the Foreign Manager. She was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Department in particular liaison with the "stringers" who, from far flung parts of the world, submitted stories for inclusion in the Kemsley Publications (including the Sunday Times). The dust wrapper artist, Kenneth Lewis (who worked in the Art Department at Kemsley), remembers her well commenting on her flat-chested appearance, strong and forceful personality, her use of bright red lipstick and that Fleming deferred to her. Fleming inscribed several of his other early novels to her, including Casino Royale and Moonraker.

James Bond Live and Let Die Inscribed First Edition

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 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, first issue, and first state of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ian%20Fleming&amp;tab=objects" 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> novel Live and Let Die.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape,&nbsp;1954.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>240 pages.</li><li>Black cloth covered boards, in colorful dust jacket, housed in a custom half-morocco clamshell box.</li></ul> A very pretty copy of Fleming’s second novel, written in just two months at his Goldeneye estate, before the reviews of the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, landed.

Live and Let Die First Edition

A collection of <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> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> books, by Ian Fleming.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 16 volumes.</li><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>Includes: 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, Golden Gun and Octopussy.&nbsp;</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1953-1966.</li><li>Each is a first printing.</li><li>Casino Royale is a true first edition in the first issue dust wrapper.</li><li>Live and Let Die is Raymond Chandler’s personal copy.</li><li>Moonraker is the variant ‘shoo’ issue in the dust wrapper.</li><li>Goldfinger was previously the property of Ian Fleming bibliographer, Jon Gilbert.</li><li>The Man With The Golden Gun is the white endpapered edition.</li></ul>

James Bond First Edition Collection

A <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>, limited <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 the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 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>Oxford: Jonathan Cape, [1963].</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>288 pages.</li><li>Signed Limited Edition, one of 250 copies, this being number 38.</li><li>Frontispiece portrait in color of Ian Fleming from the painting by Amherst Villiers.</li><li>Publisher's quarter vellum and black boards, gilt titles and stamp to spine, white wavy line decoration to front boards, top edge gilt, complete with original clear mylar, in a custom quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise.</li></ul> The only signed limited edition of any of Fleming's books.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service Signed First Edition

A full 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 printing</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> paperbacks.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14.</li><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li></ul> Includes the following: Casino Royale:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1955.</li><li>The true first issue with 2/- to the front cover.</li><li>Very rare Pan paperback with the first ‘artistic’ appearance of James Bond.</li></ul> Live and Let Die:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1957.</li></ul> Moonraker:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1956.</li></ul> Diamonds Are Forever:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1958.</li></ul> From Russia With Love:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1959.</li></ul> Dr. NO:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1960.</li></ul> Goldfinger:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1961.</li></ul> For Your Eyes Only:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1962.</li></ul> Thunderball:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1963.</li><li>Accompanied by a 14th Pan printing of the same with the rare Domino letter.</li></ul> The Spy Who Loved Me:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1967.</li></ul> On Her Majesty’s Secret Service:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1964.</li><li>This is the true first paperback edition, with a price to the front cover.</li><li>The rarest paperback of the set.</li></ul> You Only Live Twice:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1965.</li><li>Stated ‘Not for sale in the UK’ to the rear panel.</li></ul> The Man With The Golden Gun:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1966.</li></ul> Octopussy:<ul><li>First edition, first printing.</li><li>Published by Pan in 1967.</li></ul>

James Bond Pan Paperback Collection

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

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> of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> novel Diamonds Are Forever.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape, 1965.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in the original black boards, spine lettered in silver, diamond motif to front cover, with the original dust jacket.</li></ul> Diamonds Are Forever&nbsp;is the fourth title in the iconic Bond series, featuring the first mention of&nbsp;Spectre, which would go on to become the organization led by Bond's greatest nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The jacket design, featuring Bond's love interest Tiffany Case, was created by designer Pat Marriott, who would later use a similar approach in depicting Honeychile Rider for the jacket of&nbsp;Dr. No.

Diamonds Are Forever

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 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 Thunderball by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ian+Fleming&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>, with a fine proof pull of the jacket.<ul><li>Ian Fleming (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape,&nbsp;1961.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Signed by Ian Fleming on the front flyleaf.</li><li>Jacket signed by artist Richard Chopping.</li><li>Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, skeletal hand motif to upper board in blind, with two states of the dust jacket; proof jacket with variant text on front flap and back flap blank, housed in a black morocco backed folding box.</li></ul> Of the preliminary dust jacket, Gilbert notes “a very few copies of the published book came in a trial dust-jacket … likely a tiny number were produced.”

Thunderball  Signed 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">set</a> of <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 printings of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> titles, written after <a href="sothebys.com/en/search?query=Ian%20Fleming&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>’s death, many of which are <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 the authors.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 31 volumes.</li><li>Kingsley Amis (English).</li><li>Raymond Benson (American).</li><li>William Boyd (English).</li><li>Jeffrey Deaver (American).</li><li>Sebastian Faulks (English).</li><li>John Gardner (American).</li><li>Anthony Horowitz (English).</li><li>Colonel Sun, Licence Renewed; For Special Services, Role for Honour, Nobody Lives Forever, No Deals Mr Bond, Scorpius, Win Lose or Die, License to Kill, Brokenclaw, The Man from Barbossa, Death is Forever, Never Send Flowers, Seafire, Cold, Goldeneye, Zero Minus Ten, Facts of Death, High Time to Kill, The World is Not Enough, Doubleshot, Never Dream of Dying, Die Another Day, The Man with the Red Tattoo, Devil May Care, Carte Blanche, Solo, Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day, With a Mind to Kill.</li><li>London/New York: Jonathan Cape, The Armchair Detective Library, Hodder &amp; Stoughton, Penguin, Orion, 1968-2022.</li><li>Signature information can be found in the condition report.</li></ul> This is a large set of fine titles, comprising of 31 in total. Dating between 1968 and 2022, this set encompasses 54 years after the death of James Bond creator, Ian Fleming. The subject matter of each novel changes, too, featuring poignant technological advancements and rhetoric.

First Edition James Bond Titles, Written After Ian Fleming’s Death

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