Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me. New York: Viking, 1962

8vo. Publisher's orange-brown cloth, stamped in brown; lightly bumped at head and foot of spine.🗹 Pictorial dust jacket; light wear to edges, spine scuffed with some loss,🌱 scattered spotting to rear cover.

First American edition, inscribed "To Al. 'Sentement le nom. Monsieur Proust. Sentement le nom. Surtout pas de pensées', From Ian."

The last Fleming novel to be published by the Viking Press, featuring a slightly amended version of Chopping's design for the UK jac♏ket, with an inscription referencing Marcel Proust's theory of "le nom." Fleming was a reader of Proust.

REFERENCE:

Gilbert A10b (1)

PROVENANCE:

Al Hart (presentation inscription)