Ian Fleming

A signed first edition, first printing of the James Bond novel Thunderball by Ian Fleming, with a fine proof pull of the jacket.

• Ian Fleming (English).
• London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.
• Octavo.
• Signed by Ian Fleming on the front flyleaf.
• Jacket signed by artist Richard Chopping.
• Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, skeletal hand motif to upper board in blind, with two states of the dust jacket; proof jacket with variant text on front flap and back flap blank, housed in a black morocco backed folding box.

Of the preliminary dust jacket, Gilbert notes “a very few copies of the published book came in a trial dust-jacket … likely a tiny number were produced.”