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FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.
8o. Original black boards, with light brown and silver design; pictorial dust jacket with a design by Pat Marriott (minor scuffing to rear panel). Provenance: Ivar Bryce (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, one of two binding variants, with a woman's shadow stamped on the upper cover (no priority has been established). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FLEMING TO HIS LIFELONG FRIEND IVAR BRYCE on the front free endpaper: "To Ivar, Once more! from Ian."
Bryce and Fleming met as schoolmates at Eton and became lifelong friends. They often traveled together, and it was on their trip to Jamaica 1945 that Fleming decided to purchases Goldeneye, which would become his novel-writing retreat. The Bryces were millionaires (Ivar's American wife Jo was the heiress to the A & P supermarket fortune). One of their homes--"Black Hole Hollow Farm"--became the fictional hideaway for von Hammerstein in Four Your Eyes Only. Bryce was intimately involved with a number of Bond books: he was a dedicatee of Diamonds are Forever; Fleming appropriated the name Ivar for a character in Live and Let Die; and he and Fleming negotiated at one point to make a film of Thunderball. Bryce's memoir of Fleming, You Only Live Once was published in 1975.
Dr. No was Fleming's breakthrough, and turned James Bond into a household name. A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
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FIRST EDITION, one of two binding variants, with a woman's shadow stamped on the upper cover (no priority has been established). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FLEMING TO HIS LIFELONG FRIEND IVAR BRYCE on the front free endpaper: "To Ivar, Once more! from Ian."
Bryce and Fleming met as schoolmates at Eton and became lifelong friends. They often traveled together, and it was on their trip to Jamaica 1945 that Fleming decided to purchases Goldeneye, which would become his novel-writing retreat. The Bryces were millionaires (Ivar's American wife Jo was the heiress to the A & P supermarket fortune). One of their homes--"Black Hole Hollow Farm"--became the fictional hideaway for von Hammerstein in Four Your Eyes Only. Bryce was intimately involved with a number of Bond books: he was a dedicatee of Diamonds are Forever; Fleming appropriated the name Ivar for a character in Live and Let Die; and he and Fleming negotiated at one point to make a film of Thunderball. Bryce's memoir of Fleming, You Only Live Once was published in 1975.
Dr. No was Fleming's breakthrough, and turned James Bond into a household name. A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.