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  COMPLETE SET OF IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND NOVELS; each volume in the RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET and housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery; including an association copy of Live and Let Die; Signed by Albert R. Broccoli who produced the film adaptation

  FLEMING, Ian [Cubby Broccoli].

  Complete Set of 14 First Edition James Bond Novels: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, From Russia with Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories including A View to a Kill and Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights.

  London: Jonathan Cape, 1953-66.

  First editions of each volume in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher's cloth-covered boards. Each volume in a first-issue dust jacket. Casino Royale is near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with chipping to the extremities including the crown of the spine and upper right corner of the front panel, light toning to the rear panel. Jacket design by Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die is near fine in a very good dust jacket (first state without printed acknowledgement to the author or the artist Kenneth Lewis) with light wear to the crown of the spine Signed on the front free endpaper, "Cubby Broccoli, Regards." Albert R. Broccoli ('Cubby') (1909-96) produced many of the James Bond films including Live and Let Die. Bookplate of Christian Heuer to the pastedown. Diamonds are Forever is near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, bookplate of Christian Heuer to the front pastedown. Moonraker is near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket devised by the author and executed by Kenneth Lewis. From Russia With Love is fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the crown of the spine. Dr. No is fine in a first state publisher's cloth binding without the “Honeychile” silhouette and fine first s...

  Price: $150,000.00     Item Number: 145438

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  "What do you intend to do with those diamonds": First Edition of Diamonds Are Forever; inscribed by Ian Fleming to friend and colleague Lionel Berry

  FLEMING, Ian .

  Diamonds Are Forever.

  London: Jonathan Cape, 1956.

  First edition of the fourth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Lionel from Ian with affection." The recipient is most likely British Conservative politician and newspaper proprietor Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley, was professionally and socially connected to Ian Fleming through their shared involvement in the British press in the immediate postwar period. They likely met at Kemsley Newspapers, the media group owned by Berry’s father, William Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, which was a major force in mid-twentieth-century British journalism. Fleming’s appointment as Foreign Manager in 1945, drawing on his wartime naval intelligence experience, placed him in senior managerial circles where he would have worked with Berry. Their professional association subsequently developed into a personal friendship. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Light toning to the first and last few leaves and text block edges. Three small, neat repairs to the verso of the jacket. Jacket design by Pat Marriott. Diamonds Are Forever was the first of the Bond novels to feature a pictorial dust jacket, and the first to be illustrated by Pat Marriott. The three previous jackets, all execut...

  Price: $60,000.00     Item Number: 150781

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