The Letters of Kingsley Amis.

AMIS, [Sir] Kingsley (1922-1995). Edited by Zachary Leader.

London: Harper Collins, 2000. [Literary correspondence] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.lvi; 1208. Illustrated with four suites of eight photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, photographic jacket, showing the famous portrait of Amis adopting the pistol pose. A very good copy in like, price-clipped jacket. The letters of literary heavyweight Kingsley Amis, who had more than a passing interest in James Bond; he acted as advisor for Fleming's You Only Live Twice (1964) and was editor for The Man With The Golden Gun (1965). He wrote a popular critique of the series (The James Bond Dossier, 1965) and penned the first post- Ian Fleming James Bond novel, written under a pseudonym (Colonel Sun by Robert Markham, 1968). With several mentions of Fleming and Bond within. From the Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #65907

Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.634.

Price: £75.00