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"You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face": First Edition of You Only Live Twice; Inscribed by Ian Fleming

First edition, first state with "First published 1964" on the copyright page of the last James Bond novel published in Fleming's lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For James You have my best wishes from Ian Fleming." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Fleming passed away in the year of publication.

Price: $24,000.00 Item Number: 19060

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"You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face": First Edition of Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice; Signed by British Author Roald Dahl

FLEMING, Ian .

You Only Live Twice.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964.

First edition of the final James Bond novel published during Fleming's lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper. Roald Dahl was a British writer whose darkly comic imagination reshaped twentieth-century children’s literature through classics such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. In 1967, he wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice when regular Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum was unavailable, drawing on his experience with intelligence work and as a fighter pilot. Producers turned to Dahl partly because he was a close friend of Ian Fleming despite having little prior screenwriting experience. Dahl's script significantly deviated from the original novel, inventing much of the film’s plot and several key characters (including Aki and Helga Brandt) while retaining only a handful of elements from the book, a process that helped define the movie’s distinctive blend of Cold War spectacle and serial-style adventure. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Rare and desirable signed.

Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 149807

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"You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face": First Edition of You Only Live Twice; Signed by Sean Connery

FLEMING, Ian [Sean Connery].

You Only Live Twice.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

First edition of the final James Bond novel published during Fleming's lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original black cloth lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Boldly signed by Sean Connery on the front free endpaper, who played 007 in the film bearing the same name. During the filming in Japan, it was announced that Sean Connery would retire from the role of Bond, but after one film's absence, he returned in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever and later 1983's non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. You Only Live Twice was a great success, receiving positive reviews and grossing over $111 million in worldwide box office. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Founded over a century ago in 1900, the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand.

Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 125469

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