BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 36 “I Would Remember Him Forever As My Image Of A Man” “A Naked Arm Smelling Of Chanel No. 5 Snaked Round His Neck…” 46FLEMING, Ian. Man With the Golden Gun. London, 1965. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $1600 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. Because Fleming wrote this Bond adventure while ill—the author “was only able to work on it for one and a half hours a day”—the publisher hired novelist Kingsley Amis to complete and revise it (Black, 75). Book fine, dust jacket nearly so. “If Anyone Can Bring It Off, You Can. Care To Have A Try, James?” 47FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $2500 First edition, first state, of the 12th James Bond novel—the last published in Fleming’s lifetime—set in Japan and featuring the further plots of veteran Bond villain Ernst Blofeld. The third Bond adventure featuring Ernst Blofeld as villain “was set in Japan, a novelty for Bond, but one that reflected Fleming’s visits in 1959 and 1962… Fleming worked hard to discover details of Japanese culture and society… [The novel] reflected Fleming’s increasing melancholia, with Bond mirroring the author’s moods” (Black, 60-61). One tiny spot of rubbing to spine head, otherwise a fine, bright copy. 45FLEMING, 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. Fleming “had become alarmed that his earlier thrillers, designed for an adult audience, were increasingly read in schools…He did not regard Bond as a heroic figure ‘but only as an efficient professional in his job.’ Therefore he had sought to write a ‘cautionary tale’... he had invented a heroine ‘through whom I could examine Bond from the other end of the gun barrel, so to speak’” (Lycett, 401-02). Book with a bit of foxing to text block edge only, bright dust jacket with minor soiling to rear panel, slightest wear to spine head. A near-fine copy.
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