The agent is attached to the United Nations and M is sending Bond to tell her that the CIA is close to identifying her. First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 95pp. This was the first James Bond hardback edition published by Penguin Books, who held the publishing rights to the series for a decade.

Fleming originally titled "The Living Daylights" as "Trigger Finger", [17] although when it first appeared, in The Sunday Times colour supplement of 4 February 1962, [18] it was under the title of "Berlin Escape". The Chief Range Officer is pleased with the results, as Bond is consistently getting bullseyes even in the fading light. The film also used the plot device of auctioning of a Fabergé egg at Sotheby's from "The Property of a Lady"; as with the story the auction item was described as being the same "property of a lady". James Bond, unlike Sherlock Holmes, does not fit snugly into the short-story length: there is something grandiose and intercontinental about his adventures that require elbow room and such examples of the form as we have tend to be eccentric or muted. But Fleming pulls the rug out from beneath the reader and Bond himself, when the identity of Bond's sniper target is revealed.Meet James Bond, the world’s most famous spy, in these landmark 70th anniversary reissues of Ian Fleming’s classic series.

A very good copy, dust jacket spine head and tail rubbed, prelims and final few leaves a little age toned and spotted.James Bond started out as a literary character and soon turned into a movie franchise, becoming a “pop culture” icon in the process. Serve on hot buttered toast in individual copper dishes (for appearance only) with pink champagne (Taittainger) and low music.

And thanks to authors such as Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Benson himself, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd, the literary exploits of Bond continue to this day. The parcel was addressed to a Miss Maria Freudenstein, and according to the provenance, she has inherited the Sphere from her grandfather.A five shot magazine that should not produce any fade at five hundred yards has replaced the usual single bolt action. And “The Living Daylights” sends Bond to Berlin to protect a British agent before an assassin strikes. Ian Fleming passed away in 1964 and Octopussy and The Living Daylights was published posthumously in 1966 after Fleming had taken the world by storm, introducing us to his master spy James Bond. The Property of a Lady shows Bond hobnobbing with the London elite, as he does when he has to, but where he seldom feels at ease.