Holiday 2020 Catalogue

H o l i d a y G i f t s 82 “To Begin With He Was Ashamed Of Himself— A Rare State Of Mind” 102. FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London, 1961. Octavo, original brown paper boards, dust jacket. $3200. First edition of Fleming’s ninth Bond novel, featuring the first appearance of the superspy’s memorable nemesis, the villainous mastermind behind SPECTRE, Ernst Blofeld, who steals two nuclear warheads and threatens the world. Book fine, dust jacket about-fine. “I Would Remember Him Forever As My Image Of A Man” 103. FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London, 1962. Octavo, original silver-stamped brown paper boards, dust jacket. $3000. First edition of Fleming’s tenth Bond thriller—the author’s unusual examination of his super-spy “from the other end of the gun barrel.” Book fine, dust jacket very nearly so. “A Naked Arm Smelling Of Chanel No. 5 Snaked Round His Neck…” 104. FLEMING, Ian. The Man With the Golden Gun. London, 1965. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $1500. First edition of Fleming’s final Bond novel, published the year after the author’s death, in which 007 travels to Fleming’s beloved Jamaica to neutralize the assassin of the book’s title. Dust jacket price-clipped. Fine. “A Model Of What Military History Can Be” 105. FOOTE, Shelby. The Civil War. A Narrative. Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York, 1958. Large octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $2600. Scarce first edition of the complete first volume of Foote’s authoritative and engrossing history, inscribed in the year of publication: “Fred Guyton, Jr—Shelby Foote. Memphis, Nov. ’58,” in original dust jacket. Book near-fine, dust jacket very nearly fine.