Ian Fleming & James Bond

IAN FLEMING & JAMES BOND An exceptional collection of 81 rare first editions, every lifetime edition of the Bond books signed by the author, together with manuscripts, pre-publication proofs, advance copies, related correspondence and ephemera, also first editions of all Fleming’s non-fiction books, and a selection of books from his library, ranging from a Boy’s Own Annual given to him as a 10-year-old boy, to Raymond Chandler’s last novel inscribed for him by the author Peter Harrington, 100 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6HS, UK | Tel +44 20 7591 0220 | [email protected] 1 CASINO ROYALE 4 1 (FLEMING, Ian.) Casino Royale. A James Bond Comedy Saga. FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953 London: 13 South Audley Street, 15 November 1965 First edition, presentation copy of Fleming’s first novel, inscribed by An early screenplay for the film version of Casino Royale played for the author, “Dear Leonard, ‘Read & burn’, Ian”. Leonard Russell was laughs, eventually produced by Columbia Pictures and screened in the features editor of the Sunday Times, where Fleming worked full- 1967, starring David Niven as Bond, with Peter Sellers, Ursula An- time until December 1959. Original boards, in dust jacket. dress, and Orson Welles. The screenplay shows considerable differ- 2 ences from the final film version. FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953 First edition, apparently the printer’s retained copy, textually com- plete, with two blanks in the last gathering not found in the published version, original green wrappers, two pencil text corrections. 3 FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. New York: The Macmillan Compa- ny, 1954 First American edition, the CBS file copy stamped “Property CBS – TV Story Department Hollywood”. CBS paid Fleming $1,000 to adapt Casino Royale into a one-hour television adventure as part of its Cli- max! series, the first time Bond was shown on screen. The episode aired on 21 October 1954, starring Barry Nelson as “Card Sense” James “Jimmy” Bond, and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. Original cloth, in dust jacket. 5 2 5 5 LIVE AND LET DIE 8 5 FLEMING, Ian. Vivi e lascia morire. Milano: Garzanti, 1956 FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954 First edition of Live and Let Die in Italian, inscribed by the author to First edition, pre-publication presentation copy, inscribed by the au- his friend John Hayward, “Por Jacko, con amore del Ian”. Original thor to Winston Churchill: “To Sir Winston Churchill, from whom I boards, in dust jacket. stole some words! From the Author. 1954”. The “stolen words” are the quote from Churchill’s Thoughts and Adventures regarding the secret services used on the front flap of the dust jacket. Original boards, in dust jacket; together with a supplied jacket in better condition. 6 FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954 First edition, pre-publication presentation copy, inscribed by the author to William Plomer, “To Wm. Who set these balls rolling! from the author, 1954”. William Plomer, literary advisor to Jonathan Cape, was one of the three people to read every Bond novel in manuscript, and who first advised Cape to take on Fleming. Original boards, in dust jacket. 7 FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955 First American edition. Original boards, in dust jacket. 5 3 82128 [10] 9 MOONRAKER First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the great 9 lexicographer Eric Partridge, “To Eric, who kills me with his kind- ness! from Ian.” Partridge drew extensively on fiction by the likes of FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955 Fleming and Chandler for his linguistic studies of slang and criminal First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his liter- dialects. ary hero, the novelist Raymond Chandler, creator of Philip Marlowe: “To Field Marshall Chandler from Private Ian Fleming 1955”. Chan- dler has made notes at three places in the text and on the rear flap of the dust jacket. Chandler reviewed the book encouragingly in the Sunday Times. Original boards, in dust jacket. 9 10 FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to front cover and spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth folding case. An exceptional copy with faint partial tanning to the rear pastedown, in the lightly rubbed jacket with minor marks to rear panel. 4 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER 11 FLEMING, Ian. Original typescript of Diamonds Are Forever. London: [1955–6] Final revised typescript, the top copy, with numerous autograph ad- ditions and emendations in Fleming’s hand, also marked up by the copy-editor for publication. Typescript, 277 leaves, numbered to 265, with 11 supernumerary leaves, plus two preliminaries, the penulti- mate leaf (264) lacking, on typing paper. 12 FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds Are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956 First edition, presentation copy to intelligence officer W. A. Dunder- dale, inscribed by the author: “To Bill who has helped with the next one. With affection from Ian.” Commander Wilfred Albert (“Bill” or “Biffy”) Dunderdale MBE (1899–1990) was one of the most romantic figures in MI5, and is often posited as the model for James Bond. Dunderdale gave technical advice for the plot of the fifth James Bond novel, From Russia, With Love. Original boards, in dust jacket. 13 FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds Are Forever. New York: The Macmil- lan Company, 1956 First American edition. Original boards, in dust jacket. 5 FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE 17 14 FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. New York: The Macmil- FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, lan Company, 1957 1957 First American edition. Original cloth, in the dust jacket. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his wife, “To Annie, with love and lashes, Ian.” Original boards, in dust jacket. 15 FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957 First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his dust jacket designer, Richard Chopping: “To Dickie Chopping ‘the Execu- tioner’ from Ian”. Original black cloth, in the dust jacket that Chop- ping has signed on the front flap. Together with three typed letters signed from Fleming to Chopping, one with a drawing by Chopping on verso. 16 FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957 Uncorrected proof copy, one of only 75 copies printed, of which a tiny number have survived. Original printed wrappers. 15 6 DR NO 21 18 FLEMING, Ian. Doctor No. New York: The Macmillan Company, FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958 1958 First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend First American edition. Original cloth, in dust jacket. Philip Brownrigg, “To Phillip. In exchange for many favours. Affec- tionately, Ian”. Brownrigg was an Old Etonian who Fleming brought in at Kemsley, where Brownrigg was briefly editor of the Sunday Graphic. Brownrigg later moved to De Beers and introduced Fleming to key contacts knowledgeable about the illicit diamond trade, the background to Diamonds Are Forever (1956) and his non-fiction work The Diamond Smugglers (1957). Original boards, in dust jacket. 19 FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958 Uncorrected proof copy. Original printed card wrappers. 20 FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958 Advance issue in original card wrappers. 7 GOLDFINGER 25 22 FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. New York: The Macmillan Company, FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London, Jonathan Cape, 1959 1959 First edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author to Wil- First American edition. Original boards, in dust jacket. liam Plomer, without whom the James Bond novels might never have been published: “To William, This oak tree from that acorn! Affectionately Ian”. The printed dedication is “To my gentle Reader William Plomer”. The South African-born poet and novelist William Plomer (1903–1973), author of Turbott Wolfe, is now generally consid- ered without peer in the second half of the twentieth century as a discoverer of new talent in others. He edited a number of the Bond novels, while working as literary advisor to Cape (who published them), as well as literary editor for Faber and Faber. Original cloth, in dust jacket. 23 FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959 First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to Raymond Chandler, “To Ray With much affection from Ian.” Original boards, in dust jacket. Chandler’s Sunday Times review of Dr No is quoted on the front flap. 24 FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959 Uncorrected proof copy. Original card wrappers printed in green and black. 8 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY 26 FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960 First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his close friend John Hayward, “To John from the author”. Original boards, in dust jacket. 27 FLEMING, Ian, & Richard Chopping. Archive for the dust jacket of For Your Eyes Only. 14 October 1959–14 April 1960 A series of 22 autograph and typed letters signed between Ian Flem- ing, Michael Howard, his agent at Jonathan Cape, and Fleming’s dust-jacket artist of choice, Richard Chopping, documenting the conception and creation of Chopping’s jacket design for Fleming’s For Your Eyes Only (1960). The collection contains a number of drafts and colour palettes for the dust jacket, as well as a final sketch. 9 82072 [28] THUNDERBALL 28 FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961 First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author: “To Nor- man, in case he hasn’t come across this book before! from Ian Fleming”. The likely recipient is the American TV producer Norman Felton, who in 1962 briefly elicited Fleming’s help in creating the spy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

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