37 “How’s Your Coefficient Of Toughness, James?” 48FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London, 1960. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7000 First edition of Fleming’s eighth Bond title, the only collection of Bond short stories published in the author’s lifetime, including the title story, “From a View to a Kill,” and “Quantum of Solace.” This five-story collection “provided Fleming with an opportunity to reveal his fine ability to create powerful impressions of different environments… The five stories were very varied, but… in each of them the rendition of the environment was a major theme in the text” (Black, 40). Book fine, dust jacket nearly so with most minor edge-wear and very mild toning to spine. “I Love Its Colour, Its Brilliance, Its Divine Heaviness… The Power That Gold Alone Gives” 49FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London, 1959. Octavo, original gilt-stamped black paper boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $5200 First edition of the seventh James Bond thriller, in which Fleming’s superspy thwarts Auric Goldfinger’s plot to plunder Fort Knox. “Written when Fleming was on top of his game,” Goldfinger “is not only the longest entry in the [Bond] series but also one of the most exuberant, and garnered a certain degree of credibility in literary circles when author Anthony Burgess listed it in his Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939” (Gilbert, 230). Cloth in Gilbert’s second state, without the extra skull detail: “both were available upon publication.” Book fine, in a bright dust jacket with minor expert restoration.
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