Lot 188 , Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. First edition, first impression, 1966. Third-issue dust jacket. Signed by Roger Moore and Maryam d’Abo.

° Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. First edition, first impression, 1966. Third-issue dust jacket. Signed by Roger Moore and Maryam d’Abo. Fleming, Ian (1908–1964). Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition, first impression. 8vo, pp. 95. Publisher’s original Type C dark grey-brown cloth, upper board blocked in silver Nuvap; in the third-issue dust jacket, issued circa 1970–72, with Cape’s later price sticker covering the original printed price and showing both 16s. and the decimal price of 80p.

Signed in ink by Roger Moore and Maryam d’Abo to the half-title, respectively James Bond in the 1983 film adaptation of Octopussy and Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights (1987).

Fleming’s final James Bond book, published posthumously and comprising the stories “Octopussy” and “The Living Daylights”. First-impression textual point on p. 46, lines 17–18: “And so the lazy, sunshiny days passed by and stretched out into years,” rather than the later revised reading “…passed by for fifteen happy years.”

Reference: Gilbert A14a(1.4), third-issue dust jacket; first-impression textual point as A14a(1.1).
£400-600

Condition:
Very slight spotting to fore-edge. Signed in ink by Roger Moore and Maryam d’Abo to the half-title. In the third-issue dust jacket, with Cape’s later price sticker showing 16s. / 80p. Dust jacket corners clipped. The volume is in a custom-made leather clam-shell box.