MY NAME'S BOND - An Anthology

Fleming, Ian (edited by Simon Winder)

ISBN 10: 0713994754 / ISBN 13: 9780713994759

Published by Allen Lane - The Penguin Press, London, 2000

About this Item

(xi) 150 pp. Gray boards lettered in silver on the spine; 007 stamped in the front panel; illustrated endpapers; illustrated with black and white photographs, mostly bookcovers. Front cover photograph by Martin Scott-Jupp; back cover portrait of Fleming by Cecil Beaton. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Preface by Simon Winder; The Man; M; Masterminds; Killers; Doctor No's Gift; Weapons; Women; The Housekeeper; Inside the Garden of Death; Foreign Travel; Sex; Cars; Tatiana and Rosa Klebb; Drinking; Smoking; Eating; Dinner with Goldfinger; Man Talk; Nature Notes; and Dreadful Events. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MY NAME'S BOND - An Anthology
• Publisher: Allen Lane - The Penguin Press, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713994754
• ISBN 13: 9780713994759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Martin Scott-Jupp; Cecil Beaton
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This book celebrates the greatest of all postwar British fictional icons. For too long the Bond films have overshadowed their literary source - the bizarre, baroque world of Ian Fleming. Full rein is given in this anthology to Fleming's wonderful creations - the deranged villains, their horrifying associates and their surreal lairs; from Dr. No's guano island to Blofeld's Garden of Death. Full attention to is paid to the girls, cars, food, drink and cigarettes consumed by the books' brutal, resourceful hero. From the first Bond novel, "Casino Royale" to the last to be fully finished, "You Only Live Twice", there is an extraordinary zest and ingenuity to Fleming's imagination and "My Name's Bond..." allows readers to see perhaps as never before the author's remarkable abilities. He was, above all, a creator of great set pieces and it is these that are surely at the root of the films' great and lasting success.

About the Author

Ian Fleming (1908-1964) wrote CASINO ROYALE aged 42 and followed it with a further eleven Bond novels which have to date sold about 40 million copies.