The Blofeld Trilogy (Comprising: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Service, You Only Live Twice) - All SIGNED by Fleming

by Fleming, Ian

$60,809 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

London: Cape, 1961-. A set of first edition, first printings published by Cape between 1961-64. A very good/near fine set of books (some light spotting to the edge of the pages on On Her Majesty s Secret Service ). No inscriptions whatsoever. All in near fine unclipped wrappers. SIGNED without dedication to the front free endpapers by Fleming. The books were given to Una Trueblood by Fleming in 1960s. Una Trueblood was Fleming s secretary at Kemsley. She typed up the television treatment that Fleming later developed into the novel Doctor No and, like many of Fleming s acquaintances, she gives her name to a character in the novel: Mary Trueblood, secretary to the MI6 station in Jamaica. In the story, Mary Trueblood was a former Chief Officer WRNS and secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service s Caribbean station based in Jamaica. After assassinating Strangways for prying into Dr. Julius No s business, his killers proceed to the station and murder Trueblood during her scheduled contact with London. Both she and Strangways are placed in a weighted coffin and dumped in the Mona Reservoir; sinking into a fifty-fathom grave as the station and its records burn to the ground. After an official investigation is launched into their disappearance, the head of the Secret Service, M, noting her good looks, floats the idea that they might have run off together. Una Trueblood, a real-life Miss Moneypenny, worked for over ten years as Fleming s secretary at The Sund

• Publisher: Cape
• Year: 1961
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: unknown

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