FLEMING, Ian

  • Diamonds are Forever, published by Jonathan Cape in 1956. 
 
Description
  • First UK edition, 1956, Hardback.
  • Original hard cover, original dust jacket.
  • Unclipped dust jacket.
  • A near-fine first UK edition of Fleming’s fourth novel. It is already a scarce copy and fewer still remain in this condition. The dust jacket is bright and colour good. Jacket remains unclipped. Some rubbing/wear to the corners and head. Pages sharp and crisp. Binding tight. Boards really nice and clean as is shown in the images. There may be tenuous association by way of the naval stamp on the inside front cover, to the set of the 1971 film adaptation.
  • Diamonds Are Forever opens with a passage in which a scorpion hunts and eats its prey, and is subsequently killed by one of the diamond couriers. Eco sees this "cleverly presented" beginning as similar to the opening of a film, remarking that "Fleming abounds in such passages of high technical skill". When the writer William Plomer was proof-reading the manuscript he saw literary merit, and wrote to Fleming that the passages relating to the racing stables at Saratoga were "the work of a serious writer".

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