James Bond First Editions

The Lifeline.

[Ian Fleming / Bondiana] BOTTOME, Phyllis (1874-1965).

Boston: Little Brown, 1946. [Adventure novel] INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 352; [2], blank. Reprint (same month as the first printing). Publisher's tan cloth blocked in burgundy. With signed, dated presentation note to free endpaper, including a Shakespeare quote 'What a piece of work is Man!'. Contents clean, some gentle spotting to edges, spine sunned. Very good. Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963), novelist and story writer, educator and mentor to Ian Fleming. The Lifeline, her only spy novel, features a protagonist Mark Chalmers whom Fleming biographer Oliver Buckton suggests is based on Fleming himself. Item #68705

Gilbert, p.635.

Price: £275.00