[Ian Fleming and Richard Chopping] | My Word, My Bond, 1961, publisher's promotional brochure for Thunderball

Ian Fleming and Richard Chopping

My Word, My Bond. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961

4to (253 x 192mm.), 16 pages, printed in colour, paper wrappers, housed in gilt-titled buckram case, slightly toned at extremities

A fully-illustrated advertising brochure for the forthcoming James Bond novel, Thunderball, produced by Jonathan Cape's publicity department and issued to large trade buyers, department stores, book clubs, etc.

Printed in a magazine format, the cover features elements of Richard Chopping's famous skeletal hand design which was commissioned for the dust-jacket illustration.

No other copy is recorded at auction and Gilbert is aware of only three copies; Chopping's own example (inscribed by the artist), the publisher's retained copy located at the Jonathan Cape Archive, and the present copy from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive.