James Bond
Inscribed photograph of James Bond and Ian Fleming at Goldeye, Jamaica, on February 5 1964, signed "To John Carter | from James Bond", in Kodak envelope framed
[with:]
Typed letter from Seymour Adelman, to John Carter, about getting the photograph signed, 15 March 1965
John Carter was a book expert, bibliographer, and Sotheby's director. He was a board member at the Book Collector and assisted Fleming with the Printing & The Mind of Man exhibition in 1963.
James Bond was an American ornithologist and the leading authority on birds of the West Indies for decades. Fleming owned a copy of this book at Goldeneye, his estate in Jamaica, where he sat down to write Casino Royale in 1952. The author explained:
"I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard." (Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962)
Years later, Fleming wrote in a letter to Mrs Bond: "In return, I can only offer you or James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming for any purpose you may think fit. Perhaps one day your husband will discover a particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion by calling it Ian Fleming" (The New York Times, 17 February 1989).
James Bond
Inscribed photograph of James Bond and Ian Fleming at Goldeye, Jamaica, on February 5 1964, signed "To John Carter | from James Bond", in Kodak envelope framed
[with:]
Typed letter from Seymour Adelman, to John Carter, about getting the photograph signed, 15 March 1965
John Carter was a book expert, bibliographer, and Sotheby's director. He was a board member at the Book Collector and assisted Fleming with the Printing & The Mind of Man exhibition in 1963.
James Bond was an American ornithologist and the leading authority on birds of the West Indies for decades. Fleming owned a copy of this book at Goldeneye, his estate in Jamaica, where he sat down to write Casino Royale in 1952. The author explained:
"I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard." (Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962)
Years later, Fleming wrote in a letter to Mrs Bond: "In return, I can only offer you or James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming for any purpose you may think fit. Perhaps one day your husband will discover a particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion by calling it Ian Fleming" (The New York Times, 17 February 1989).
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