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IAN LANCASTER FLEMING (1908 - 1964)

SET OF FIVE JAMES BOND FIRST EDITION BOOKS


Estimate: Rs 2,75,000-Rs 3,25,000 ( $3,720-$4,395 )


SET OF FIVE JAMES BOND FIRST EDITION BOOKS


James Bond books are now highly sought out by Ian Fleming Collectors

a) Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love, London: Jonathan Cape, 1957

256 pages; original black cloth, lettered in silver and red, design to upper cover in silver and red; with facsimile dust jacket, first edition
7.6 x 5.1 in (19.5 x 13 cm)

b) Ian Fleming, The Spy who Loved Me, London: Jonathan Cape, 1962

221 pages; original dark grey/brown cloth, lettered in silver, design to upper cover in silver and blind, red endpapers; dust jacket, first edition
7.6 x 5.1 in (19.5 x 13 cm)

c) Ian Fleming, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966

95 pages; original dark grey cloth, lettered in silver, grey endpapers; with facsimile dust jacket, first edition
7.6 x 5.1 in (19.5 x 13 cm)

These are the first edition with no later titles stated, these are not the book club edition, not the US edition and not a later printing - these are the first printing.


d) Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964

255 pages; spine with stamped author/title in silver ink and front cover with embossed gilded Japanese characters along with wood-coloured endpapers; dust jacket, first edition
7.6 x 5.1 in (19.5 x 13 cm)

e) Ian Fleming, The Man with the Golden Gun, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965

221 pages; original black cloth boards with spine stamped with author/title in gold ink along with period printed green endpapers; dust jacket, first edition
7.6 x 5.1 in (19.5 x 13 cm)

(Set of five)