The Spy Who Loved Me Fleming, Ian Lancaster, (1908-1964) James Bond 007

[Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION, State A, Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's copy, with his visiting card, Cape book label and printed slip loosely inserted. Crown octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers in a pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 15s. Contents clean and fresh. Tape residue to eps. and flaps where once secured, similar label mark to front panel of jacket, small area of browning to rear, some minor edgewear. Shows well. Very good indeed, housed in an elegant custom-made clamshell box. A significant association. Provenance: Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911-96), former Etonian diplomat, S.A.S. Commando, adventurer and travel writer encouraged by Peter Fleming; liaised with Ian Fleming during the Moscow spy trials in the 1930s, served in Soviet Central Asia, the Western Desert Campaign, and at Churchill's personal request, behind enemy lines with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. Maclean was often labelled a model for James Bond, with Ian Fleming noting that 007 was "a compound of all the secret agents and commando types that I met during the war" (Bond Bound, p.26). Maclean, Peter and Ian Fleming were reunited at literary events, each being published by Jonathan Cape. Originally sold with all Maclean's copies of the Bond novels [Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 2008], purchased by bibliographer Jon Gilbert for his Fleming Archive, where this copy has remained since. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A10a (1.1).