Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies. SIGNED BY THE REAL JAMES BOND.
London: Collins, 1974. [Ornithology] SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Fourth printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's mid-blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers. With author's inscription to the title page; To Dick Sargent / James Bond. With occasional pencil and ink annotations by Sargent, together with a note confirming the signed book was presented to him by Bond's colleague Lisa Salmon. A near fine copy without wrapper. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond, whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. A rare signature in full as here, the author usually signing as 'Jim Bond'. The recipient, Dick Sargent, was president and CEO of the Chubb Institute, A dedicated conservationist, he served as a trustee on the board of The Land Conservancy of New Jersey. Lisa Salmon founded the Rocklands Bird Sanctuary near Montego Bay in 1958. Laid in is a tri-fold checklist compiled by Salmon identifying birds to be observed at Rockland Feeding Station. Later part of the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Item #70010
Gilbert, page 616.
Price: £4,750.00
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