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Lot No :

MY NAME IS BOND, JAMES BOND [SET OF 3 FIRST EDITIONS BY IAN FLEMING]


Estimate: Rs 4,00,000-Rs 5,00,000 ( $6,250-$7,815 )


a)
TITLE: Casino Royale
AUTHOR: Ian Fleming
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1953
EDITION: First. This is the first edition with essential 'First Published 1953' to the inner page, with no later titles stated, this is not the book club edition, not the US edition and not a later printing - this is the first printing.
BINDING: Original black cloth boards with a bright red heart to the front and red titles on the spine. The matte dust jacket by artist Kenneth Lewishas bright, grey colours with pink hearts and yellow titles. The rear panel has a drawing of Fleming and text about his life. Not price-clipped - prices shown on front and rear flaps of 10s 6d net. (the dust jacket is a later impression of the original)
EDITION: First
NO.OF PAGES: 218
SIZE:
Height: 20 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm

Casino Royale is the first novel written by Ian Fleming featuring the 00 agent Commander James Bond, completed in March 1952 and publishedin 1953 and is essential to any James Bond collection. Only 4,500 copies were printed on the first print run - the smallest number of first print run copies of any James Bond novel. Ian Fleming was 43 when he wrote this novel. He sent it to his friend, the poet William Plomer, who in turn recommended it to Jonathan Cape, publishers. And the rest is history, a British cultural hero was born.

b)
TITLE: You only live twice
AUTHOR: Ian Fleming
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1964
EDITION: First. This is the first edition with essential 'First Published 1964' to the inner page, with no later titles stated, this is not the book club edition, not the US edition and not a later printing - this is the first printing.
BINDING: Spine with stamped author/title in silver ink and front cover with embossed gilded Japanese characters along with wood-coloured endpapers. Dust jacket with prices shown on front flap of 16s.net
NO.OF PAGES: 255
SIZE:
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 1.5 cm

The 1st print run of this novel was 56,000 copies.

c)
TITLE: The Man with the Golden Gun
AUTHOR: Ian Fleming
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1965
EDITION: First. This is the first edition with essential 'First Published 1965' to the inner page, with no later titles stated, this is not the book club edition, not the US edition and not a later printing - this is the first printing.
BINDING: Original blackcloth boards with spine stamped with author/title in gold ink along with period printed green endpapers. Dust jacket with prices shown on front flap of 18s.net
NO.OF PAGES: 221
SIZE:
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 1.5 cm

The 1st print run of this novel was 82,000 copies.