FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964). Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958, 1958.

Price: US$8396.42 + shipping

Description: [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. An unusual pre-publication association/presentation copy with signed inscription by Ian Fleming's literary editor William Plomer. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, silver titles to spine. Second state binding, with the 'Dancing Lady' design to the upper, pictorial jacket by Pat Marriott. With autograph note to flyleaf; A. Franklyn. / from W. Plomer. / March 1958. //. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box. Inscribed on 26th March (pencilled by the owner), five days before the date of release. Some spotting to edges and first and final gatherings, externally fine. Correspondingly used jacket supplied. William Plomer (1903-73), was a senior reader at Jonathan Cape Ltd., and one of Fleming's most trusted friends. He was instrumental in getting Casino Royale published and read and advised on each successive Fleming manuscript. He was unofficially Fleming's Editor-in Chief, and the novel Goldfinger is dedicated to him [Gilbert, p.650]. This copy was later part of the comprehensive James Bond collection of bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with accompanying provenance. Gilbert A6a (1.3).

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Ian Fleming. Dr No - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR -THIRD IMPRESSION IN D/W.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1958.

Price: US$8719.36 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: HARDBACK - THIRD IMPRESSION - The book is in near fine condition. The book is signed by the author to the front end paper. Ian Fleming has signed the book I.L. Fleming instead of the customary Ian Fleming. This is the only time we have encountered a fleming signature, signed in this way. The book comes from the library of Stanley Meyer, who was a Hollywood producer, who met Fleming in 1956, and expressed an interest in buying the rights to film Live and Let Die and Moonraker. There is a neat Stanley and Dodo Meyer book plate to the centre of the front endpaper. The books boards are clean with just a small bump to the bottom corner of the front board. The inner pages are clean, and free of foxing. The dust wrapper is in near fine condition, with no loss, and is correctly priced at 13s.6d.net. A very nice association copy.

Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom

Fleming, Ian. Dr. No.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1958.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition in the first-issue dust jacket with Fleming's name printed in black on the spine of the sixth Bond thriller, first state binding (Gilbert's variant A), without the "Honeychile" silhouette; the silhouette was later added to bring it in line with other titles in the series which bore designs on the front board. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Sean Connery on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Pat Marriott. Rare and desirable. The further adventures of "literature's most famous spy" (Steinbrunner & Penzler, 151) and basis for the first Bond film in 1962, starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. Time acclaimed the title villain as "one of the least forgettable characters in modern fiction" (Black, 32). With brown-stamped dancing girl silhouette on front board ("probably intended to be Honeychile Rider" [Biondi & Pickard, 44]).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. Jonathan Cape, 1958, 1958.

Price: US$22605.75 + shipping

Description: Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in silver, "Honeychile" silhouette on front cover in brown (second state, no priority of issue). With dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco folding box. Some light foxing to edges, contents clean. A near-fine copy in fine dust jacket, faint spots to rear panel and verso, a sharp and bright example. First edition, first impression, with a bookplate inscribed by the author: "To Eileen Cond 'The Faithful' from Ian Fleming". Eileen M. Cond was a correspondent of Ian Fleming and the first secretary of the James Bond Fan Club. A prominent collector of modern first editions, Cond had an extensive selection of Fleming titles bearing similar inscriptions. Dr No, the sixth novel in the James Bond series, was the first to be turned into a film, starring Sean Connery in 1962. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert A6a(1.3); The Schøyen Collection No. 54.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom