Description

“ONE MORE EGG FOR EASTER!?” FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, INSCRIBED BY IAN FLEMING

FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, (1960). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of Fleming’s eighth Bond title, the only collection of Bond short stories published in Fleming’s lifetime. Warmly inscribed, “To Peter, One more egg for Easter! From Ian.”

This collection has “the only British dust jacket with any depiction of Bond: the eye in the peephole is his. Fleming made [artist Richard] Chopping paint it many times, until he was satisfied with the shape and, particularly, the color” (Biondi & Pickard, 46). This copy was inscribed by Fleming to 13-year-old American Peter Werner, later to become a film director. Book fine; very light edge-wear and toning to spine of extremely good dust jacket. Copies of this title inscribed by Fleming are scarce.