GREAT GIFTS 96 “How’s Your Coefficient Of Toughness, James?” 126FLEMING, 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.” The book is notable for its jacket, “the only British dust jacket with any depiction of Bond: the eye in the peephole is his. Fleming made [artist Richard] Chopping paint it many times, until he was satisfied with the shape and, particularly, the color” (Biondi & Pickard, 46). Book fine, only most minor toning to dust jacket spine. A beautiful copy. “To Begin With He Was Ashamed Of Himself—A Rare State Of Mind” 127 FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London, 1961. Octavo, original brown paper boards, dust jacket. $2800 First edition of Fleming’s ninth Bond novel, featuring the first appearance of the superspy’s memorable nemesis Ernst Blofeld. “Thunderball represented a new departure [for the Bond series], with the introduction of SPECTRE and of Ernst Blofeld, a commanding villain who was to reappear. This gave a measure of continuity to the later Bond novels” (Black, 49, 55). Book fresh; light edgewear, soiling with small bit of tape reinforcement to verso of bright dust jacket. “I Would Remember Him Forever As My Image Of A Man” 128 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.” 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). Aboutfine. “You See, We’ve Got All The Time In The World” 129FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London, 1963. Octavo, original brown paper boards, dust jacket. $2400 First trade edition of the eleventh Bond novel, in which 007 takes a bride, only to have his happiness cut short by the schemes of his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld. Published simultaneously with the signed limited edition of 250 copies, the 11th James Bond novel—the first published after the debut of the Bond film series—became “an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic” (Biondi & Pickard, 53). Near-fine.
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