James Bond First Editions

Diamonds are Forever.

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION, Binding A, REVIEW COPY belonging to novelist and critic ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.257; [1]. Publisher's black cloth, titled in silver, in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Pat Marriott, with original price 12/6 present. Housed in an elegant black cloth clamshell. Contents clean, edges a little dusty, jacket rather used with long tear across front panel and sizeable loss to spine. This is personal copy of Anthony Lejeune, (1928-2018), detective novelist, critic, editor, broadcaster, and crime correspondent hired by Ian Fleming at The Sunday Times, who reviewed all the James Bond novels; read and used by him to produce a review of this title. With a printed card from 'The Tablet' [International Catholic News Weekly] with typed quote "Here you are: my temperature went up several degrees over Tiffany and Bond", followed by a literal scribble for a signature. Lejeune reviewed books for The Tablet, although he was not Catholic himself. Anthony Lejeune [pseudonym of Edward Anthony Thompson, 1928-2018] detective novelist, critic, editor, broadcaster, and crime correspondent hired by Ian Fleming at The Sunday Times. Sold by Francis Edwards ABA, together with several of his advance copies of the Bond novels (all well read, many with review slips), then forming part of the Fleming archive assembled by Jon Gilbert with a pencilled note from Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert regarding the provenance. Item #72632

Price: £1,850.00