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Property from the Estate of Al Hart

Fleming, Ian | Diamonds are Forever, a fine copy with a warm presentation inscription

Lot Closed

June 28, 06:02 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Fleming, Ian

Diamonds Are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956


8vo. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in silver (Binding A); bumped at head and foot of spine. Pictorial dust jacket; light toning, partic༒ularly to edges and spi🐼ne, two short marginal tears to upper edge of rear cover, head and foot of spine creased.


First edition, presentation copy inscribed: "To Al | with Covent Garden | & all | & with affection | from | Ian."


The idea for a book about diamond smuggling arose from an article published in The Sunday Times. Diamonds Are Forever features the first dust jacket design by Pat Marriot, showing Tiffany Case wearing a large diamond which was based upon a real stone known as "Afghanistan", owned by Ivar Bryce's wife. This was because Fleming first envisioned the plot of the novel at Ivar and Jo Bryce's Black Hole Hollow Farm in Vermont. The farm was near Saratoga Springs, and when Fleming and Bryce along with Ernie Cuneo visited the town in August 1954, Fleming accumulated a great deal of material for the book, including the mud bath scene and the "Studillac", driven by the wealthy American socialite, William Woodward Jr. The book was dedicated to Bryce, Cuneo and Woodward as a 🍌result.


This is one of a very few presentation copies of the fourth Bond novel, other notable recipients ♋being Noël Coward and John Hayward.


A fine example.


REFERENCE:

Gilbert A4a (1.1)


PROVENANCE:

Al Hart (presentation inscription)