The Spy Who Loved Me

Ian Fleming

Edité par Jonathan Cape, 1965

VERY GOOD DUST JACKET: Chipping to top and bottom of spine and all outside corners, except bottom back panel. Small stain to upper margin, front panel. Minor soiling to both panels, primarily flap folds. BOARDS: Stressing to cloth cover, center back. BOOK: Several foxing spots to textblock page ends, primarily foredge. Please inspect photos and read description closely for condition details. More pics available on request. ************************************* Here on offer is a very nice copy of Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me, the ninth novel in the James Bond series and the title of the 1977 film of the same name starring Roger Moore. It is a 1st UK edition, 1st printing published by Jonathan Cape in 1962. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ******************************************************* "Set apart from the other books in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, The Spy Who Loved Me is told from the perspective of a femme fatale in the making--a victim of circumstance with a wounded heart. Vivienne Michel, a precocious French Canadian raised in the United Kingdom, seems a foreigner in every land. With only a supercharged Vespa and a handful of American dollars, she travels down winding roads into the pine forests of the Adirondacks. After stopping at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court and being coerced into caretaking at the vacant motel for the night, Viv opens the door to two armed mobsters and realizes being a woman alone is no easy task. But when a third stranger show--a confident Englishman with a keen sense for sizing things up--the tables are turned. Still reeling in the wake of Operation Thunderball, Bond had planned for his jaunt through the Adirondacks to be a period of rest before his return to Europe. But that all changes when his tire goes flat in front of a certain motel." ////////////////////////////////////////////// Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing. ///// While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, Fleming was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units: 30 Assault Unit and T-Force. He drew from his wartime service and his career as a journalist for much of the background, detail, and depth of his James Bond novels. ///// Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, at age 44. It was a success, and three print runs were commissioned to meet the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two collections of short stories followed between 1953 and 1966. The novels centre around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond is also known by his code number, 007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and two works of non-fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". . . . ********** The above text was taken from, respectively, New American Library publishers (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1748292404275

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Spy Who Loved Me
Éditeur : Jonathan Cape
Date d'édition : 1965
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Very Good
Edition : 1st Edition