You Only Live Twice - SIGNED and INSCRIBED to Aubrey Forshaw

by Fleming, Ian

$27,240 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

London: Cape, 1964. A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1964. This is the first issue with First published 1964 to the copyright page. Publisher s black cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers, in original pictorial dust-wrapper by Richard Chopping. With presentation note in blue ink to flyleaf; To / Forshaw-san / from / Fleming-san [underline]. Very light handling only with one or two tiny nicks to the jacket; a fine copy. This copy was presented by Ian Fleming to Aubrey Forshaw. The inscription incorporates the traditional Japanese honorary title san , used to show respect to the person being mentioned. In the novel, Tiger Tanaka, the head of the Japanese Secret Service, refers to 007 throughout as Bondo-san . Fleming used this device only when inscribing the book to his closest friends and colleagues. Examples presented in this way include: Brilliant Chopping-san [for the jacket artist Richard Chopping], Dikko-san [Richard Hughes, journalist and model for the character Dikko Henderson in the novel], Connolly-san [author Cyril Connolly], and From Fleming-san [to Sunday Times editor Denis Hamilton, the dedicatee of Fleming s Thrilling Cities]. The present Forshaw-san is thus far unrecorded. Forshaw was Managing Director at Pan Books from 1952, following the death of its founder Alan Bott. The first Bond novel Casino Royale was published as a Pan edition in 1955 and each s

• Publisher: Cape
• Year: 1964
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: paperback

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