70.įirst edition, second printing of the ninth novel in Ian Flemingâ s James Bond series. Matthew Parker, Goldeneye, Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, 2015 Gilbert A9a(1.1) The Schøyen Collection No. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. It's astonishing how little Coward bothered to make up" (Parker, page 91). we have a remarkably unflinching portrait of Ian Fleming's time on the island in 1949-51, the years immediately preceding his marriage to Ann and the simultaneous launch of James Bond. Set on the fictional island of Samolo - a close match for Jamaica - it concerns the secret relationship between the aristocratic Eloise and her lover, Bunny, whose character mirrors Fleming's almost exactly. The inscription refers to Noël Coward's first and only novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), at the centre of which is a thinly-veiled account of Fleming's affair with Ann. Inscribed by the author "To Noël, In exchange for the copy of P & C he didn't send me! With love Ian" on the front free endpaper. Minor stain to a small portion of the front panel, short closed tear to the foot of the rear panel, extremities very slightly rubbed else a near-fine and bright jacket. With first issue dust jacket (priced at 15s.) Head and foot of spine very slightly bumped a fine copy.
Original dark grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, skeletal hand motif blocked on the front cover in blind (Gilbert's A binding). First edition, first impression, presentation copy.
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