James Bond First Editions

Contract Bridge Made Easy. With an Introduction by Ely Culbertson.

[Ian Fleming / Bondiana] CULBERTSON, Josephine (1898-1956), CULBERTSON, Ely (1891-1955).

London: Faber & Faber, 1955. [Card game reference] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.563; [1], blank. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers lettered in red, typographic dust-jacket priced at 8/6. Publisher's revies slip inserted, together with a handwritten letter form the Editorial Office. Contents clean, some discolour to cloth at spine, jacket is fine. This 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. Jo Culbertson was American bridge player, teacher, theorist and writer. Her husband Ely Culbertson, a great showman, was widely regarded as "the man who made contract bridge", of which author Ian Fleming was a keen student and player. His novel Moonraker (1955), features the now-famous Bridge game where Drax and Meyer play Bond and M at Blades, where Bond deploys 'The Culbertson Hand'. Item #69850

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

Price: £48.00