James Bond First Editions

Contract Bridge Blue Book.

[James Bond source book] CULBERTSON, Ely (1891-1955).

New York: The Bridge World, 1931. [Card game] FIRST EDITION, early printing (first was published five months earlier). Octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.348. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers blocked in gilt. Contents clean, owner signature and book store stamp to free endpaper, covers clean and bright. Near fine. A source book consulted by Ian Fleming while writing Moonraker (1955), which features the now-famous Bridge game where Drax and Meyer play Bond and M at Blades, where Bond deploys 'The Culbertson Hand'. This particular example is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #69846

Gilbert, Section L. Moonraker (2), p.619.

Price: £48.00