James Bond First Editions

Best Stories of Phyllis Bottome. Chosen with a Preface by Daphne DuMaurier.

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

London: Faber & Faber, 1963. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.318. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced 18s. A clean ex-library copy with one stamp to endpaper, shelf number written to copyright page, otherwise rather lightly used, jacket with a couple of neat tears at crown. Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963), novelist and story writer, educator and mentor to Ian Fleming, who attended her private school in school in Kitzbühel, learning French, German and Russian. Her husband Ernan Forbes Dennis, was a retired MI-6 agent. Fleming's adventures in the Austrian Alps are the genesis of James Bond, and it was here that he wrote his first thriller story. Item #74440

Gilbert, p.635.

Price: £28.00