FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: IAN FLEMING + JAMES BOND.

UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean black background with white,grey+red letters to upper panel, b/w portrait (Fleming & Sean Connery) photographic illustrated rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original red+black photographic (rear panel of dw/dj photograph repeated across cloth boards) cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked red ink letters to spine/backstrip,a red+black headband,and red+black facsimile reproductions of title pages of author drafts of Bond titles,illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-224pp [paginated] includes author's note,8 chapters/sections,profuse b/w+colour subject related photographs,a bibliography of Bond titles/books,selected further reading,picture credits,an index,acknowledgements to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with Ian Fleming Centenary vignette,double-page red+b/w illustrated title page,a contents list/table,and 4pp b/w photographs before author's note.
This book,published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London,is a homage to Ian Fleming on the centenary of the author's birth,and a celebration of James Bond,his greatest cration.It is not a biography of Ian Fleming - others,notably John Pearson (see rja366) and Andrew Lycett,have already performed that task admirably - nor is it a 'biography' of James Bond, for that,too,has been written.
One morning in February in 1952,sitting at his desk at Goldeneye,his holiday hideaway on the north coast of Jamaica,journalist Ian Fleming said to himself "I'm going to write the spy story to end all spy stories." A month later, 'Casino Royale' was completed,and James Bond was born. An investigation into the intersection of the two lives - one factual,one fictional.
A harsh boarding school with no father figure,a lifetime's cast of extraordinary characters,a playboy lifestyle and enjoyment of the finer things in life,an obsession with plots and gadgets,working in Naval Intelligence and crucially,an immersion into the politics of the Cold War,the background to all of the Bond novels.
Sometimes we observe more subtle parallels in women, food and drink,pastimes,military prowess,villains,plots, gadgets,guns and other gizmos.
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