37 “How’s Your Coefficient Of Toughness, James?” 55FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London, 1960. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $6500 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, price-clipped dust jacket with most minor wear. An about-fine copy. “I Would Remember Him Forever As My Image Of A Man” 56FLEMING, 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.” “A significant departure from usual,” The Spy Who Loved Me, in which 007 appears only toward the end of the book, proved to be “the easiest thing [Fleming] had ever done” (Lycett, 381). Although the title page lists the book as being written by Ian Fleming with Vivienne Michel, the “coauthorship credit is a hoax: Vivienne Michel was the name of the wife of one of Fleming’s golfing companions in Jamaica” (Biondi & Pickard, 47). Gilbert A10a (1.1). Dust jacket spine faintly toned. A very nearly fine copy.
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