FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me, London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed: "To Viv with an x from Ian," original cloth with dagger stamped on upper cover, dust-jacket (short tear to head of backstrip).

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FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me, London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed: "To Viv with an x from Ian," original cloth with dagger stamped on upper cover, dust-jacket (short tear to head of backstrip).

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IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. The vendor, "Viv", first met Ian Fleming in Jamaica in the mid-1950s, and a friendship began which lasted until Fleming's death in 1964. Initially, Fleming proposed merely to name the heroine of "The Spy Who Loved Me" after her, but, in the end (and rather to her surprise), he chose instead to pretend the book was actually a collaboration between them. The title page reads "Ian Fleming with Vivienne Michel" and the novel is written in her persona.