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Thomson Newspapers Limited, 1962. Large magazine format. Illustrations throughout. A near-fine copy. Contains the first appearance in print (pre-book form) of this James Bond novella; with the signature of pop-artist Peter Blake on the contents page, who would later design the cover of a commemorative edition of From Russia, With Love. This periodical appearance, part of a newspaper insert, is a scarce and fragile item, many of which simply did not survive. In the 1960s the Sunday Times Magazine invented the concept of a colour supplement and catalogued the cultural trends and realignment of the nation's image. Their colour supplement defined the genre for a generation, and this, the very first issue, featured some key names now forever linked with that decade, namely Ian Fleming (with a new Bond story), photographer David Bailey, designer Mary Quant, model Jean Shrimpton, and Peter Blake. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), whose…

A posthumous collection of short stories, featuring the character James Bond.