Live and Let Die
Cape, 1954.
First edition, first state. Original black boards with gilt titles and vignette, in printed dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to author and fellow Jamaican resident, Esther Chapman, "To Esther As grist for her ball point. from Ian. p.s. with love" A near fine copy with a little foxing to the preliminary pages in a very good dustwrapper indeed which shows a little wear to the spine ends and is a touch dusty to the rear panel.
A fine association copy of the the second James Bond novel. Esther Chapman was an expatriate author and journalist living in Jamaica. She wrote a couple of novels set on the island as well as the highly regarded Pleasure Island, a guide book to Jamaica published in 1951, which Fleming reviewed for the Sunday Times as, "[edited] with intelligence and common sense... Esther Chapman has done a great service to the Jamaica."
Both were part of the expatriate community on the island in the mid-20th century and shared connections through the creative and social circles of that era. While there isn't much documentation of their interactions, it is likely they were well acquainted given the small, tight-knit nature of the literary and expatriate community in Jamaica during that period.
Fleming presentations with literary associations, particularly those connected to his second home of Jamaica are rare.
Stock ID: 46129
£55,000.00
