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Peter Harrington, 100 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6HS, UK | Tel +44 20 7591 0220 | books@peterharrington.co.uk

I A N F L E M I N G & J A M E S B O N D

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

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C A S I N O R OYA L E1FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953First edition, presentation copy of Fleming’s first novel, inscribed by the author, “Dear Leonard, ‘Read & burn’, Ian”. Leonard Russell was the features editor of the Sunday Times, where Fleming worked full-time until December 1959. Original boards, in dust jacket.2FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953First edition, apparently the printer’s retained copy, textually com-plete, with two blanks in the last gathering not found in the pub-lished version, original green wrappers, two pencil text corrections.3FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. New York: The Macmillan Compa-ny, 1954First 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.

4(FLEMING, Ian.) Casino Royale. A James Bond Comedy Saga. London: 13 South Audley Street, 15 November 1965An early screenplay for the film version of Casino Royale played for laughs, eventually produced by Columbia Pictures and screened in 1967, starring David Niven as Bond, with Peter Sellers, Ursula An-dress, and Orson Welles. The screenplay shows considerable differ-ences from the final film version.

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L I V E A N D L E T D I E5FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954First edition, pre-publication presentation copy, inscribed by the au-thor to Winston Churchill: “To Sir Winston Churchill, from whom I 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.6FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954First edition, pre-publication presentation copy, inscribed by the au-thor 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.7FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955First American edition. Original boards, in dust jacket.

8FLEMING, Ian. Vivi e lascia morire. Milano: Garzanti, 1956First edition of Live and Let Die in Italian, inscribed by the author to his friend John Hayward, “Por Jacko, con amore del Ian”. Original boards, in dust jacket.

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M O O N R A K E R9FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his liter-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.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the great lexicographer Eric Partridge, “To Eric, who kills me with his kind-ness! from Ian.” Partridge drew extensively on fiction by the likes of Fleming and Chandler for his linguistic studies of slang and criminal dialects.

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10FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955Octavo. 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.

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D I A M O N D S A R E F O R E V E R11FLEMING, 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.12FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds Are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956First 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.13FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds Are Forever. New York: The Macmil-lan Company, 1956First American edition. Original boards, in dust jacket.

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F R O M R U S S I A , W I T H LOV E14FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his wife, “To Annie, with love and lashes, Ian.” Original boards, in dust jacket.15FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957First 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.16FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957Uncorrected proof copy, one of only 75 copies printed, of which a tiny number have survived. Original printed wrappers.

17FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. New York: The Macmil-lan Company, 1957First American edition. Original cloth, in the dust jacket.

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D R N O18FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend 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.19FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958Uncorrected proof copy. Original printed card wrappers.20FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958Advance issue in original card wrappers.

21FLEMING, Ian. Doctor No. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958First American edition. Original cloth, in dust jacket.

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G O L D F I N G E R22FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London, Jonathan Cape, 1959First edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author to Wil-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.23FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959First 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.24FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959Uncorrected proof copy. Original card wrappers printed in green and black.

25FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959First American edition. Original boards, in dust jacket.

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F O R YO U R E Y E S O N LY26FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his close friend John Hayward, “To John from the author”. Original boards, in dust jacket.27FLEMING, Ian, & Richard Chopping. Archive for the dust jacket of For Your Eyes Only. 14 October 1959–14 April 1960A 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.

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T H U N D E R B A L L28FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961First 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. Original boards, in dust jacket.29FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961Uncorrected proof copy. Original card wrappers printed in green and black.30FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. New York: The Viking Press, 1961First American edition. Original cloth, in dust jacket.

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G I LT- E D G E D B O N D S31FLEMING, Ian. Gilt-Edged Bonds. Casino Royale, From Russia With Love, Doctor No. With an introduction by Paul Gallico. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961First Omnibus edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to a person who shared his name with Fleming’s hero: “To James Bond from Ian Fleming”. Laid in are two jovial typed letters signed from Fleming to this other James Bond. Original cloth-backed boards, in dust jacket. 32FLEMING, Ian. Gilt-Edged Bonds … New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961Advance copy of the first omnibus edition. Sewn quires loose be-tween white endpapers, in dust jacket.

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T H E S P Y W H O LOV E D M E33FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to Robert Kennedy, “To [Herr?] Robert Kennedy from [Herr?] Ian Fleming”. Fleming’s books became best-sellers in the United States after Pres-ident John F. Kennedy listed them as his favourites. Original cloth, in dust jacket.34FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to Philip Brownrigg, “To Philip, Tho its a bit old for him! from Ian.” Original boards, in dust jacket.35FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962Uncorrected pre-publication proof copy, with some manuscript corrections to the text. Original card wrappers printed in green and black, in dust jacket.36FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. New York: The Viking Press, 1962First American edition. Original cloth, in dust jacket, with a front flap quote citing President Kennedy’s liking for the Bond books.

37MAIBAUM, Richard. The Spy Who Loved Me. 8 January 1976Typescript of the film adaptation of Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) by Richard Maibaum, who worked on all but three of the Bond films from Dr No (1962) to License to Kill (1989).

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O N H E R M A J E S T Y ’ S S E C R E T S E R V I C E38FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London: Jona-than Cape, 1963First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to Philip Brownrigg, “To Phillip, Instead of balance-sheets & boreholes! Ian”. Original boards, in dust jacket.39FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London: Jona-than Cape, 1963Signed limited edition, one of an unstated number of presentation copies outside the 250 numbered limitation. Signed by Fleming as usual and additionally inscribed by Amherst Villiers, who painted the portrait of Fleming used as the frontispiece: “To Griffie - with all the best, Amherst. 11. Feb. 68.” Beryl Griffie-Williams was Flem-ing’s secretary in 1960, and became increasingly crucial to his day-to-day life; she stayed with him until his death, and was one of the few named in his will. Original japon-backed black cloth.40FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London: Jona-than Cape, 1963Uncorrected proof copy. Original card wrappers printed in green and black.

41FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. New York: New American Library, 1963First American edition. Original cloth-backed boards, in dust jacket.42ARMSTRONG, Louis. Manuscript lyrics to the song “We have all the time in the world”, from the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. 1969The lyrics are written by Armstrong on the blank verso of a print-ed comedy weight-loss regime entitled, “Lose Weight, the Satchmo Way! As copied from Harpers Bazaar – by Louis Armstrong”, signed at the bottom by Armstrong, and inscribed to his longtime manag-er Joe Glaser, “To Joe from Satch”, with the additional note “Yea my debut song”.

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YO U O N LY L I V E T W I C E43FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author in mock Japanese honorifics to his friend John Hayward, “To celestial Hay-ward-san, from miserable Fleming-san”. Original boards, in dust jacket.44FLEMING, Ian. Manuscript notebook with material for You Only Live Twice, 1962Fleming’s notebook kept while travelling around Japan in 1962, con-taining travelogue impressions, various addresses, schedules, lin-guistic notes, and several long passages later incorporated almost verbatim into You Only Live Twice (1964), as well as material used in Thrilling Cities (1963). Small perfect-bound notebook, written by Fleming on 54 pages.45FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964Uncorrected proof copy, issued with a jacket taller than the book. Original card wrappers printed in green and black.46FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. New York: New American Library, 1964First American edition. Original cloth, in dust jacket.

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T H E M A N W I T H T H E G O L D E N G U N47FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jona-than Cape, 1965First edition, first issue, first state, with the gun design blocked in gilt to the front cover. The design on the cover was in line with the other novels in the series, but proved too expensive and was dropped after 940 copies had been blocked and sent abroad, a tiny fraction of the total first edition print run. Copies with the gun design have long been established as a highspot in any Fleming collection. Original cloth, in dust jacket.48FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. New York: The New American Library, 1965First American edition. Original paper-covered boards, in dust jack-et.

O C TO P U S S Y & T H E L I V I N G D AY L I G H T S49FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966First edition, first impression. Laid in is a ticket for the 29 July 1987 evening screening of The Living Daylights at The Boy’s Club of New York. Original boards, in dust jacket.50FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966Uncorrected proof copy. Original card wrappers printed in green black, in dust jacket.51FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy. New York: The New American Library, 1966First American edition, the first with illustrations. Original pa-per-covered boards, in dust jacket.

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T H E D I A M O N D S M U G G L E R S54FLEMING, Ian. The Diamond Smugglers. With an Introduc-tion by ‘John Blaize’ formerly of the International Diamond Security Organization. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “To Sir Per-cy Sillitoe, without whom, etc!!!, from Ian Fleming, Nov 1957”. Sir Percy, ex-chief of MI5, was head of the International Diamond Se-curity Organisation. Fleming’s friendship with him provided much of the material for this non-fiction book, as previously for Diamonds Are Forever (1956). Original boards with white lettering, in dust jacket.55FLEMING, Ian. The Diamond Smugglers ... London: Jonathan Cape, 1957First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “To John Collard – who shall be nameless from Ian Fleming, Nov 1957”. John Collard was the “John Blaize” who provides the Introduction to this book. He met Fleming in Tangier at Sir Percy Sillitoe’s behest on 13 April 1957 and provided him much of the material for it; Fleming’s welcome note on hotel letterhead is laid in. Original boards lettered in white, in dust jacket.

K E M S L E Y N E W S PA P E R S S T Y L E M A N U A L52FLEMING, Ian. Kemsley Newspapers: Reference Book. Lon-don: Kemsley House, [1948]First edition of Fleming’s first book, a style and procedural manual intended for the eyes only of journalists in the Kemsley Foreign De-partment; extremely rare. Small ring-bound booklet.53(FLEMING, Ian.) The Kemsley Manual of Journalism. London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1950First edition, signed by Viscount Kemsley. A different work from the previous item, but includes an essay by Ian Fleming, who was Kems-ley’s Foreign Manager from 1945 to 1959. Original buckram, without jacket.

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56FLEMING, Ian. The Diamond Smugglers ... London: Jonathan Cape, 1957First edition. Original cloth lettered in bronze (second state for li-braries, no priority of issue), without jacket.57FLEMING, Ian. The Diamond Smugglers ... New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958First American edition. Original cloth, in dust jacket.

T H R I L L I N G C I T I E S58FLEMING, Ian. Thrilling Cities. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his travel-ling companion, the Australian journalist Richard “Dikko” Hughes, “To Dick, the great companion, from Ian.” Original cloth-backed boards, in dust jacket.59FLEMING, Ian. Thrilling Cities. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963First edition, First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his film agent Robert Fenn on the title page, “To Bob, Salud! Ian.” Original cloth-backed boards, in dust jacket.

60FLEMING, Ian. Thrilling Cities. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963Uncorrected proof copy. Original card wrappers printed in green and black, in proof dust jacket.

C H I T T Y C H I T T Y B A N G B A N G61FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. New York: Random House, 1964First American and first one-volume edition. Original cloth, in dust jacket.62FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964–5Corrected proof copies of adventures 2 and 3 of Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, with publisher’s proof stamps. Original illustrated proof wrappers.

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F R O M I A N F L E M I N G’ S L I B R A RY ( d a t e o rd e r )63The Boy’s Own Annual. London: “Boy’s Own Paper Office”, [1918]Ian Fleming’s copy, published just before the end of the Great War and given to him as a ten-year-old boy by his mother, with the in-scription, “Ian, from Mama, Christmas 1918”. Original cloth.64SHAKESPEARE, William. The Taming of the Shrew; [together with:] The Comedy of Errors. London: J. M. Dent & Sons; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1919Ian Fleming’s copies of these two Shakespeare comedies, signed by him when a 15-year-old boy at Eton in both works, “I. L. Fleming, Pitt House. Aug: 4. 1923”. The Taming of the Shrew is a particularly piquant title for the young Fleming to have enjoyed. 2 works, original bur-gundy imitation leather.65SACKVILLE-WEST, Edward. Piano Quintet. London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1925First edition of the first novel of music critic and author Edward Sackville-West (Vita’s first cousin). Ian Fleming’s copy, with his own-ership inscription, and the name of the Fleming family house, Joyce Grove, dated 1925. Original cloth, without jacket.66STEVENS, Samuel John. A Wildling Posy. London: Selwyn & Blount Limited, 1925; [together with:] SMITH, Arrnold W. The Isle of Mistorak and other poems. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1926

Two poetry books from Fleming’s adolescent library, probably while still at Eton, the Stevens signed, “I. L. Fleming, Chelsea”, and the Smith, “Ian Fleming, 1926”. Both books have been intensively read by the young Fleming, and three original poems of his own compo-sition written on the endpapers. Original bindings, without jackets.67MARRIOTT, J. A. R. English Political Institutions. An Introduc-tory Study. Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1925Third edition (first, 1910), Ian Fleming’s copy, signed by him, “I. L. Fleming, 5 Comp. R.M.C.” Leaving Eton under a cloud, Fleming joined No. 5 Company of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in the autumn of 1926, and spent an unhappy few months as a cadet before leaving in May 1927. Original cloth, without jacket.68BOTTOME, Phyllis. The Messenger of the Gods. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927First edition, presentation copy from the author to Ian Fleming, in-scribed by her, “Nov. 16 1927. To Ian, with love from the author, Phyl-lis Forbes Dennis.” The Forbes Dennises ran the summer school at Kitzbühel, Austria, where Fleming was sent in 1927, and Fleming re-garded Phyllis as his literary mentor. Original cloth, without jacket.69BOTTOME, Phyllis. Strange Fruit. London: W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 1928First edition, presentation copy from the author to Ian Fleming, inscribed by her, “June 29th 1928. To Ian with love from the writer – Phyllis”. A collection of short stories by Fleming’s literary mentor (see previous item). Original jacket, without jacket.

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70British Association for the Advancement of Science. Notes and Queries on Anthropology. London: The Royal Anthropologi-cal Institute, 1929Fifth edition (first, 1874); Ian Fleming’s copy, with his ownership signature, “Ian Fleming, Genève, 25.2.30”. After Kitzbühel, Ernan Forbes Dennis suggested Fleming improve his French so as to pass the Foreign Office examination. Fleming was at Geneva in 1929–30, also toying with the idea of marriage to a pretty young French-Swiss girl. Original cloth, without jacket.71LANG, Iain. Jazz in Perspective. The Background of the Blues. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, [1947]First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author, “For Ian Fleming, ‘The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.’ [Insignia Stamp] Iain Lang, Nov ‘47”. The quote is from Love’s Labours Lost. Original cloth, without jacket.72HART-DAVIS, Rupert. Hugh Walpole. A Biography. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1952First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to Ian Flem-ing, “For Ian, on a very important occasion, with love from Rupert. March 1952”. The “very important occasion” is likely to have been Fleming’s wedding day on 24 March 1952. Original cloth, without jacket.

73THE TIMES. Fourth Leaders from 1953. A selection from the past twelve months. London: The Times Publishing Company Limited, 1953First edition, inscribed by Peter Fleming to his brother Ian and his wife Anne as a Christmas gift in the year of publication of Casino Royale, “To Ian & Anne, from Peter. If the plum-pudding doesn’t fix you, this should. 1953”. The “fourth leader”, of which Peter Fleming was a regular contributor, was the traditionally light-hearted last editorial article in The Times newspaper, “the only paper Bond ever read” (From Russia, With Love). Original cloth, without jacket.74FLEMING, Peter. With the Guards to Mexico! And other ex-cursions. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his broth-er Ian Fleming, “To Ian – this tosh, with love from Peter, 1957”. Orig-inal boards, in dust jacket.75FLEMING, Peter. The Fate of Admiral Kolchak. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to his broth-er Ian Fleming, “To Ian – this gripping yarn, with love from Peter (scripsit), July 1963”. Original cloth, in dust jacket.76CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958First edition, presentation copy of the last of Chandler’s Philip Mar-lowe novels, inscribed by the author to Ian Fleming, “To Ian, with love, Ray”. Original boards, in dust jacket.

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F L E M I N G I A N A77MARSDEN, Christopher. Palmyra of the North. The First Days of St. Petersburg. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1942First edition, inscribed by Ian Fleming to his mistress Clare Blan-shard, “C. Read every word. F.”, and signed by her below; also latterly signed on the half-title by the author, “by Clare Blanshard’s flattered colleague Christopher Marsden April 1947”. Fleming and Blanshard met during the war in Ceylon. After the war she moved to New York where she, too, worked for the Kemsley Group. She was one of Flem-ing’s early readers of the Casino Royale manuscript, and later advised him on aspects of the gem trade. Original cloth, without jacket.78BOND, James. Field Guide of Birds in the West Indies. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947First edition under this title, signed by the American ornithologist who lent his unassuming name to Fleming’s creation, inscribed by him: “Jan, 17th 1958. Let’s hope for more and a wonderful day’s bird-ing here on Tobago or in the Antilles! Jim Bond”. Original cloth, in dust jacket.79Fleming’s signed lease for Mitre Court Chambers. 4 Old Mitre Court, London: 5 January 1960

The original lease for Fleming’s writing office in Mitre Court, at a rent of £500 per annum from 5 January 1960, signed by Fleming in blue ink on the final text page, and also signed by the witness Una Trueblood, his secretary. With the original “recorded delivery” enve-lope, franked and addressed Dr H. Richards at 4 Mitre Court.80FLEMING, Ian. Typed letter signed to Kit Reed. Old Mitre Court, London: 23 August 1961Typed letter signed to fellow novelist Kit Reed (born Lillian Hyde Craig) dated 23 August 1961, with three minor autograph correc-tions. Fleming thanks Reed for sending a copy of her first book, Mother Isn’t Dead, She’s Only Sleeping (Boston: 1961), congratulates her on title of the year, and discusses the novel’s plot in some detail. He has recommended her to Jonathan Cape.81PLOMER, William. Address Given at the Memorial Service for Ian Fleming. St Bartholomew the Great. Privately printed at the Westerham Press, September 15th 1964First edition, one of only about 50 hardback copies of Plomer’s me-morial address for Ian Fleming. Original boards, original unprinted glassine.

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