FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). The Spy Who Loved Me . London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, the rare ‘quad’ variant of the first impression. Presentation copy to Fleming’s solicitor Hugh Fisher. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of his most sexually explicit Bond novel: ‘To Hugh, this rather forward child of his trusteeship! from Ian’. The Spy Who Loved Me ‘was Fleming’s attempt to "examine Bond from the other end of the gun barrel" […] The story is told in the first person by a fictional young woman named Vivienne Michel (whom Fleming mischievously credited as his co-writer)’. ‘No priority between the two variants has been established […] What is certain, however, is that the ‘quad’ issues are rather more scarce’. Gilbert A10a. Octavo (190 x 125mm). (Quad mark on title slightly scratched.) Original black cloth, upper cover with a dagger motif stamped in blind and silver, spine lettered in silver, red endpapers, original pictorial dust-jacket after Richard Chopping (jacket with the usual clipped corners, very light wear at extremities, 6mm tear at foot of spine).
FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964). The Spy Who Loved Me . London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, the rare ‘quad’ variant of the first impression. Presentation copy to Fleming’s solicitor Hugh Fisher. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of his most sexually explicit Bond novel: ‘To Hugh, this rather forward child of his trusteeship! from Ian’. The Spy Who Loved Me ‘was Fleming’s attempt to "examine Bond from the other end of the gun barrel" […] The story is told in the first person by a fictional young woman named Vivienne Michel (whom Fleming mischievously credited as his co-writer)’. ‘No priority between the two variants has been established […] What is certain, however, is that the ‘quad’ issues are rather more scarce’. Gilbert A10a. Octavo (190 x 125mm). (Quad mark on title slightly scratched.) Original black cloth, upper cover with a dagger motif stamped in blind and silver, spine lettered in silver, red endpapers, original pictorial dust-jacket after Richard Chopping (jacket with the usual clipped corners, very light wear at extremities, 6mm tear at foot of spine).
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