Interestingly, Fleming had originally imagined Bond as a relatively boring but handsome man rather than the clever, mysterious agent we are well acquainted with today.
Bond’s character was based off a number of men Fleming had met during his time in the British Naval Intelligence Division and the 30 Assault Unit.
However, Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy were published posthumously. Overall, Fleming wrote two short stories and twelve novels featuring the memorable spy. Imagined by Ian Fleming in 1953, James Bond is a fictional British spy who works for MI6. The book was made into the 1975 film of the same title starring Roger Moore as Bond, with an all-star cast including Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, and Hervé Villachaize. The first edition of The Man with the Golden Gun, published in 1965 by Jonathan Cape, London, had a print run of 82,000 copies. Published in 1965, the year after the author’s death, the book tracks 007 as he travels to Fleming’s beloved Jamaica to neutralise a dangerous assassin, nicknamed after his beloved gold-plated pistol.īecause Fleming wrote this Bond adventure while ill-the author "was only able to work on it for one and a half hours a day"-the publisher hired novelist Kingsley Amis to complete and revise it (Black, 75). This is the first edition of Fleming’s final Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun. Octavo, in original dust jacket with custom gilt embossed slipcase. Jackson, Who says nice things! From Ian Fleming.” After Jackson’s death in 1964 it was revealed that he had been a CIA agent, making this personal memento a compelling association of two important figures in the British/American nexus of WWII and Cold War intelligence operatives.About Fleming, Ian. Jackson, who had worked at Time magazine briefly before the war, went on to work at Life, and clearly kept in touch with the author. Jackson was the Deputy Chief at the Psychological Warfare Division at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at the time Fleming was working for Britain’s Naval Intelligence Division.
Sold for $16,250.Ĭold War cloak-and-dagger machinations, epitomizing the Fleming/Bond oeuvre, is well-played by an inscribed copy of Thunderball, 1961, presented to friend Charles Douglas Jackson. Lot 134: Ian Fleming, Thunderball, first edition, first issue, with dust jacket, presentation copy inscribed by Fleming, London, 1961.
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