Holiday 2020 Catalogue

L i t e r a t u r e 16 “Death Is Forever. But So Are Diamonds” 13. FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds Are Forever. London, 1956. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $11,000. First edition of Fleming’s fourth James Bond thriller, a fast-paced, globe- spanning race through the deadly world of diamond smuggling. A lovely copy in unrestored original dust jacket. “In the 1950s, the mystique of America as a land of wealth and excitement held great sway in a Britain still in the grips of austerity” (Black, 25), and this mystique influenced Fleming’s fourth Bond thriller, in which the super-spy visits the States to battle diamond-smuggling gangsters. Made into the 1971 film of the same title starring Sean Connery as Bond and Jill St. John as Tiffany Case. Book fine with faint foxing to fore-edge and endpapers, bright unrestored dust jacket with only minor toning to edges. A very nearly fine copy.