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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. Signed by the author. DJ is in very good condition. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. A very good first edition hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Appears to be unread. Inscribed and signed by the author. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine 1st edition hardcover in dj signed by author and illustrator on fep. Signed By Author & Illustrator.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Beginning with Francis Bacon taking Anne Fleming to a Richard Chopping exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, London, in 1956; colour frontispiece of the dustwrapper illustration; originally published in The Book Collector, Spring 2017; #34/60 numbered copies signed by Fergus and James Fleming, the publishers. Black card wrappers with printed paper label. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ian Fleming (1964) 'You Only Live Twice', UK first edition, first printing, published by Jonathan Cape. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to director and Fleming's friend Terence Young: "To | Brilliant Young-san | from | Humbled | Fleming-san". Terence Young (1915-1994), directed the first, second, and fourth Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965), and was therefore instrumental in turning the novels into a global cinematic success story which also turned Fleming into a rich man. Although initially Fleming and Young did not particulraly like each other with Fleming commenting on the third choice director for Dr No (1962): "so they've decided on you to f*ck up my work" and Young regarding Fleming as immensely arrogant. Nevertheless, they concluded their meeting with a dinner, and went on to form a strong friendship. The inscription in this volume indicates the high regard in which Young was eventually held by Fleming. We cannot imagine a stronger association copy than this. Condition: a near fine copy with little shelf wear. Housed in a custom clamshell case for protection. First and Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. First Edition. First UK Edition. A very fine copy (in wrappers), as issued. Inscribed by the Author: To James Pickard/ Hope you enjoy it/ Best wishes/ John D Bryan. Signed by Author.

[Spy novel] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.264. Publisher's lotus red hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with the author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers. Absolutely fine/as new. SIGNED on behalf of the publisher by Jon Gilbert [Adrian Harrington Ltd]. One of a selection of titles by Ian Fleming, uniformly cased in harlequin colours, comprising sheets from the Ian Fleming Centenary Edition in an elegant new hardback binding for 2022. James Bond's dangerous Japanese assignment is one of the most critically-acclaimed of the series. Signed.

[Spy thriller] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. 3 volumes, octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.320; 320; 264. Publisher's hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers. Bound respectively and appropriately in Royal Blue, Alpine White and Lotus Red. As new. SIGNED on behalf of the publisher by Jon Gilbert [Adrian Harrington Ltd]. The epic saga of British secret service agent James Bond 007, his arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his criminal network SPECTRE. This set comprises sheets from the Ian Fleming Centenary Edition in an elegant new hardback binding for 2022. Signed.

First Edition. [James Bond] All FIRST EDITIONS thus, first printings, SIGNED by the illustrator to the first volume. Octavos (24 x 17cm). Each with elegant colour plates by Dalton, including a frontispiece. Publisher's metallic grey cloth, with silver and bronze titles to spine and upper. Grey endpapers. With the illustrated paper-covered slipcase. Superb throughout. All are either shrinkwrapped (carefully opened to confirm printing status) or in the publisher's tracing paper sleeve, with some additional printed Folio Society ephemera advertising their James Bond series. A striking new illustrated uniform series in hardcover. Autograph obtained directly for this firm by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Signed.

[James Bond thrillers, etc] 16 volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 15cm). SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Publisher's harlequin hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to to cover, plain black endpapers. As new. This series comprises sixteen selected titles, uniformly cased in harlequin colours, being the remaining sheets from the Ian Fleming Centenary Edition in an elegant new hardback binding for 2022. 'Talk of the Devil' followed in 2023 and accompanies this collection Each book marked 'out-of-series' to the limitation leaf and signed by the publisher. Signed.

First edition of the final James Bond novel published during Fleming's lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper. Roald Dahl was a British writer whose darkly comic imagination reshaped twentieth-century childrenâs literature through classics such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. In 1967, he wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice when regular Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum was unavailable, drawing on his experience with intelligence work and as a fighter pilot. Producers turned to Dahl partly because he was a close friend of Ian Fleming despite having little prior screenwriting experience. Dahl's script significantly deviated from the original novel, inventing much of the filmâs plot and several key characters (including Aki and Helga Brandt) while retaining only a handful of elements from the book, a process that helped define the movieâs distinctive blend of Cold War spectacle and serial-style adventure. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Rare and desirable signed. You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel and twelfth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The Belfast Telegraph considered Fleming to be "still in a class of his own." The Bookman declared that You Only Live Twice "must rank among the best of the Bonds." It is the last novel by Fleming to be published in his lifetime, with subsequent works being published posthumously. Made into the 1967 film of the same title with a screenplay by Roald Dahl, starring Sean Connery as Bond and Donald Pleasence as Blofeld.

First editions. 14 volumes. 8vo. Original cloth, dust jackets. London, Jonathan Cape. A complete set of first edition James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, in near fine condition, about as nice as is practically obtainable. Over 70 years since the first James Bond novel was published the James Bond franchise continues to be immensely popular and Bond remains the most famous fictional spy in the world.  Live and Let Die signed by the dust jacket artist Kenneth Lewis, who executed the dust jacket design of the first three James Bond books.   All in fine, near fine, or very good condition.  Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, A1a (1.1), A2a (1.1), A3a (1.3), A4 (1.2), A5a (1.2), A6a (1.3), A7a (1.2), A8a (1.1), A9a (1.1), A10a (1.2), A11a. (1.1), A12a (1.3), A13a (1.), A14a. (1.).   For a full description please enquire.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Millennium Series: Six fine unread books in fine dust jackets, all first editions. No marks or tears, not price clipped: (1) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. First thus published by MacLehose Press/Quercus, London, UK, 2008. First published by Norstedts, Stockholm in 2005. (2) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stief Larsson. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. First thus published by MacLehose Press/Quercus, London, UK, 2009. First published by Norstedts, Stockholm in 2007. (3) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stief Larsson. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. First thus published by MacLehose Press/Quercus, London, UK, 2009. First published by Norstedts, Stockholm in 2006 (4) The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz. Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding. Signed by the author on the title page. This is #256 of 1000 numbered copies. First English edition published by MacLehose Press/Quercus, London, UK, 2015. (5) The Girl Who Takes an Eye For An Eye by David Lagercrantz. Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding. Signed by the author on the title page. This is #258 of 500 numbered copies. First English edition published by MacLehose Press/Quercus, London, UK, 2017. (6) The Girl Who Live Twice by David Lagercrantz. Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding. Signed by the author on the title page. First English edition published by MacLehose Press/Quercus, London, UK, 2019. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. Signed by Author.

[Spy thrillers] 14 volumes, complete. Collector's Edition, 'bound in genuine leather'. Octavo (each 19 x 13cm). Printed on acid-neutral archival paper, with colour frontispieces of the original jacket artwork by Ken Lewis, Pat Marriott and Richard Chopping. Publisher's full hide in various colours, decoratively blocked in gilt, moire silk endpapers, ribbon marker, all edges gilt. Absolutely fine, in the original shrinkwrap. The bibliographer's copy, with original paperwork and loose publisher bookplate (signed) for each volume. This is a "well-produced library edition" which originally retailed at $54.70 each (Fleming Bibliography, p.578). Books were sold exclusively through the Easton Press website or via their catalogue and are long-since sold out. Gilbert F8. Signed.

First editions of each volume in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher's cloth-covered boards. Each volume in a first-issue dust jacket. Casino Royale is near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with chipping to the extremities including the crown of the spine and upper right corner of the front panel, light toning to the rear panel. Jacket design by Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die is near fine in a very good dust jacket (first state without printed acknowledgement to the author or the artist Kenneth Lewis) with light wear to the crown of the spine Signed on the front free endpaper, "Cubby Broccoli, Regards." Albert R. Broccoli ('Cubby') (1909-96) produced many of the James Bond films including Live and Let Die. Bookplate of Christian Heuer to the pastedown. Diamonds are Forever is near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, bookplate of Christian Heuer to the front pastedown. Moonraker is near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket devised by the author and executed by Kenneth Lewis. From Russia With Love is fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the crown of the spine. Dr. No is fine in a first state publisher's cloth binding without the âHoneychileâ silhouette and fine first state dust jacket. Jacket design by Pat Marriot. Goldfinger is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. For Your Eyes Only is near fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Thunderball is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. The Spy Who Love Me is fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. You Only Live Twice is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. The Man with the Golden Gun is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Octopussy and the Living Daylights is fine in a fine dust jacket. Each volume is housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional collection of first editions, most rare in this condition and signed by Cubby Broccoli. British Secret Service agent James Bond, often referred to by his code name 007, first appeared in 1953 with the debut of Ian Flemingâs Casino Royale, the first of twelve novels composing the series. Fleming completed a new novel annually at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, two of which were published posthumously in 1964. James Bond has been portrayed on film by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, in twenty-six productions.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's black boards (Gilbert's Type A) blocked in silver and gilt, bamboo effect endpapers, with the dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, spine very slightly rolled but a lovely copy in the dust-jacket. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Jonathan from Ian'. The identity of Jonathan has eluded us but obviously Fleming's use of first names indicates a close acquaintance. This was the final book in the 'Blofield trilogy', largely set in Japan where Fleming had travelled on assignment in 1959 and again in 1962 when he spent 12 days exploring the country and its culture.

First edition of the final James Bond novel published during Fleming's lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original black cloth lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Boldly signed by Sean Connery on the front free endpaper, who played 007 in the film bearing the same name. During the filming in Japan, it was announced that Sean Connery would retire from the role of Bond, but after one film's absence, he returned in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever and later 1983's non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. You Only Live Twice was a great success, receiving positive reviews and grossing over $111 million in worldwide box office. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Founded over a century ago in 1900, the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largestÂtraditional bindery in America exclusivelyÂdevoted toÂfine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel and twelfth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The Belfast Telegraph considered Fleming to be "still in a class of his own." The Bookman declared that You Only Live Twice "must rank among the best of the Bonds." It is the last novel by Fleming to be published in his lifetime, with subsequent works being published posthumously. Made into the 1967 film of the same title with a screenplay by Roald Dahl, starring Sean Connery as Bond and Donald Pleasence as Blofeld.

First edition, first state with "First published 1964" on the copyright page of the last James Bond novel published in Fleming's lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For James You have my best wishes from Ian Fleming." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Fleming passed away in the year of publication. You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel and twelfth book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. The Belfast Telegraph considered that Fleming was "still in a class of his own." The Bookman declared that You Only Live Twice "must rank among the best of the Bonds." It is the last novel by Fleming to be published in his lifetime, with subsequent works being published posthumously. Made into the 1967 film of the same title with a screenplay by Roald Dahl, starring Sean Connery as Bond and Donald Pleasence as Blofeld.

A Book Club Edition of 'You Only Live Twice' published in 1964. A very good book in like wrapper with some staining to the rear panel and some wear to the corners and edges. SIGNED on the front panel of the dust wrapper by Ken Wallis - inventor of 'Little Nelly', the rocket powered flying machine from the film Ken Wallis was a British aviator, egineer, inventor and former Royal Air Force officer. Wallis is best known in the Bond world for his role in 'You Only Live Twice' in 1967. He flew the autogyro nicknamed 'Wallis WA-166 Agile' (also known as 'Little Nellie' in the film's aerial sequence, acting as the stunt pilot and stand-in for Sean Connery's James Bond during that segment.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. First impression, first state (the copyright page giving "First Published 1964" rather than "First Published March 1964"), presentation copy to Cyril Connolly, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To 'Great Ox' Connolly-san, from 'Butterfly' Fleming-san". This is one of eighteen known presentation copies recorded by Gilbert "from the early bound stock." Fleming had first met Connolly at Eton. They met again in Kitzbühel in Austria during 1938, when "Connolly arrived in town in pursuit of a woman.who turned out to be Ian's first girlfriend" (Lycett, p. 92). Over subsequent years, Fleming "had grown to like Connolly - one of his few journalistic colleagues of whom that could be said - and had played a part in confirming his appointment to the Sunday Times's panel of regular book reviewers" (Lycett, p. 224). In 1952 Connolly wrote The Missing Diplomats, concerning the Cambridge spy ring, and this was published by Fleming's Queen Anne Press. Connolly was also responsible for a spoof short story, first published in the London Magazine in 1963 entitled "Bond Strikes Camp." The story "lampooned the duplicitous, often sexually ambivalent world of espionage.while giving voice to the often quietly held view that, for all his apparent machismo, Bond was actually rather camp" (Lycett, p. 416). Connolly's use of the Bond character had, in a break from usual practice, been specifically permitted by Fleming. The inscription includes Fleming's use of the Japanese honorary title "san," used as a mark of respect as in the novel (Tiger Tanaka, the head of the Japanese Secret Service, refers to 007 throughout as "Bondo-san"). A Fine copy in a Near Fine jacket. Octavo. Original black boards (Gilbert's binding A), spine lettered in silver, Japanese lettering on front cover in gilt, patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom black full morocco folding box. Tiny spots of rubbing to extremities of boards; jacket unclipped, spine slightly toned, else sharp. You Only Live Twice was the final Bond book published during the lifetime of Fleming, who died later that year. It is the final volume in the "Blofeld trilogy" and was based on Japanese material which Fleming gathered during his five-week foreign jaunt for the Sunday Times. The novel is titled after a poem by Basho: "You only live twice: / Once when you are born, / And once when you look death in the face" (p. 7). The film adaptation was released three years later, starring Sean Connery, and with the screenplay written by Roald Dahl. Gilbert A12a (1.2). Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, 1995. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Signed.

A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1964. This is the first issue with 'First published 1964' to the copyright page. 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. With presentation note in blue ink to flyleaf; To / Forshaw-san / from / Fleming-san [underline]. Very light handling only with one or two tiny nicks to the jacket; a fine copy. 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. A superb association copy and a unique find.

One of the very last pieces of significant Fleming manuscript material outside the Lilly Library's Fleming collection. Fleming made these notes during his visit to Japan in 1961. He returned to Japan with the express purpose of making a trip that he could funnel into a Bond story. He wrote to his friend Richard Hughes in advance with a detailed itinerary listing all the things they would need to see for the novel: "After a couple of days in Tokyo, I would like us to take the most luxurious modern train down south to the inland sea. I would also like to see pearl girls diving - my heroine will be a beautiful girl who has learned to speak English working on an underwater film in Hollywood - and hot baths, a live volcano for suicides, and any terrifying manifestation of the horrific Japan" (Pearson). Fleming kept this notebook while jaunting around the hottest spots of Japan with Hughes. Along with hotel and restaurant addresses, phone numbers, and simple Japanese phrases, the notebook contains several longer prose passages, including several that would eventually form the basis of episodes in You Only Live Twice. Other passages include philosophical jottings on the people and culture of Japan: "How many of one's own nationals want to live in another country & how many of that country want to live in yours. Moshimosh = hello! Only the good can be bad - only the believer can blaspheme - only the black can be white. Flower - known as the FL service - or to the subs as FLOPPO." Many of these passages and observations reappear in his published work, first in Thrilling Cities, then in You Only Live Twice. Fleming manuscript material is notably scarce and very few items of any significance have appeared in commerce. Another notebook for You Only Live Twice, similar in format but shorter (39 pages), was sold at auction at Sotheby's London, 20 July 1989, lot 174. A 120-page typescript, being Fleming's working notebook of ideas for various Bond novels, kept from July 1957 to January 1964, was sold at Sotheby's London, 15 December 1992, lot 296. Besides these, the finished typescripts of Diamonds Are Forever and The Man With the Golden Gun, and a few scattered notes for From Russia, with Love and his article, "Bang, Bang. Kiss, Kiss", no other significant Fleming manuscript material has appeared at auction in 50 years. John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming, 1966. Oblong duodecimo. 54 leaves and 7 blanks, written mostly on rectos, the first leaf neatly excised. Contemporary French notepad with grid-ruled pages, cloth-backed boards. Housed in a red cloth chemise and a red morocco-backed slipcase. In superb condition.

Original manuscript first draft of Roald Dahl's screenplay for the screen adaptation of Fleming's You Only Live Twice, released in 1967 starring Sean Connery, with Dahl's signature boldly across the title leaf. This is the most substantial Roald Dahl manuscript to exist in private hands and to come on the market in decades. Roald Dahl, though a good friend of Ian Fleming, was an unlikely choice to write the adaptation, having never worked with screenplays before. As in virtually all film projects, several drafts were needed before the screenplay was finally approved, and Dahl quickly managed to provide a finished screenplay to the satisfaction of the producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman (though some additional story material was supplied by the television writer Harry Jack Bloom). Dahl admired Ian Fleming's writing, and later also adapted his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the screen. Many critics have commented on how much the finished screenplay of You Only Live Twice owed to Dahl's invention, rather than Fleming's novel. In fact, Dahl's script set a template for the Bond film series, and his story structure would be re-used extensively in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Dahl's friendship with Ian Fleming began with their joint activities in spying. Dahl was posted to Washington as assistant air attaché (1942-3) and worked in security (1943-5). Dahl, with a successful book (The Gremlins) under his belt, became a frequent guest of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House and their weekend retreat, Hyde Park. British Intelligence exploited his access and recruited him to spy for the British. Dahl's co-conspirators included future advertising legend David Ogilvy and Ian Fleming. The future author of the James Bond books was also high in joint intelligence circles, having worked with Colonel Bill Donovan, the special representative of President Roosevelt, on intelligence co-operation between London and Washington before Pearl Harbor. In May 1941 he accompanied Admiral Godfrey to America, staying to help write a blueprint for the office of co-ordinator of information (the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency). Both men came under the control of the British spymaster Sir William Stephenson (code-named "Intrepid"), who ran the entire complex British Intelligence network he had built up throughout North and South America. After the war Fleming and Dahl maintained their friendship, meeting frequently at the New York house of Fleming's friend Ivar Bryce. Dahl was a great admirer of Fleming's charisma: "There was," he wrote later, "a great red glow when Ian came into the room". This screenplay comes from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schĝyen (b.1940), with his bookplate within the solander box. Schĝyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Approximately 280 unbound leaves, yellow writing paper, feint ruled, written on one side of the leaf by Dahl in pencil in screenplay format. Housed in custom red cloth chemise and red morocco-backed solander box. Some erasures, some passages excised, a few leaves with additional sections taped in, minor creasing to leaf edges. Overall in remarkably well-preserved near-fine condition.

A set of first edition, first printings published by Cape between 1961-64. A very good/near fine set of books (some light spotting to the edge of the pages on 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'). No inscriptions whatsoever. All in near fine unclipped wrappers. SIGNED without dedication to the front free endpapers by Fleming. 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." Inscribed copies of Bond books are rare, but inscribed copies which connect the inscribee to a character within the Bond literature are exceptionally scarce.

[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Francesca Tu (Osato's Secretary) in blue marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. Signed.