Thunderball

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964)

Verlag: London: Jonathan Cape, 1961

[Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's copy, with SIGNED notepaper and printed label loosely inserted. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], bank. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced at 15s., housed in a custom-made clamshell box. Some moderate wear and handling; jacket with a few chips and tears. Very good. 'House of Commons' headed paper is in near fine condition (Maclean served as a minister in the War Office around this time). A significant association. Provenance: Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911-96), former Etonian diplomat, S.A.S. Commando, adventurer and travel writer encouraged by Peter Fleming; liaised with Ian Fleming during the Moscow spy trials in the 1930s, served in Soviet Central Asia, the Western Desert Campaign, and at Churchill's personal request, behind enemy lines with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. Maclean was often labelled a model for James Bond, with Ian Fleming noting that 007 was "a compound of all the secret agents and commando types that I met during the war" (Bond Bound, p.26), and like Fleming and Bond, Maclean had a Scottish heritage. Fitzroy Maclean, Peter and Ian Fleming were reunited at literary events, each being published by Jonathan Cape. Originally sold with all Maclean's copies of the Bond novels [Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 2008], purchased by bibliographer Jon Gilbert for his Fleming Archive, where this copy has remained since. Gilbert A9a (1.1). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 67183

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Thunderball
Verlag: London: Jonathan Cape, 1961
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: 1. Auflage