Their friendship flourished, and in 1975, Fleming encouraged Bryce to write his memoirs. In 1945, Bryce helped Fleming find a house just outside Oracabessa, which he called 'Goldeneye' after his wartime project in Spain, Operation Goldeneye. For part of the war, Bryce was based in Jamaica, and after visiting in 1941, Fleming decided that he would like to live in Jamaica after the war. Everything works here and the story itself is fascinating.

During the Second World War, Bryce and Fleming worked for the head of the British Security Coordination, based in New York City (along with other noted members Roald Dahl and David Ogilvy). Moonraker is one of Fleming’s very best novels almost equal to From Russia With Love and the three books comprising his masterful Blofeld Trilogy ( Thunderball, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice ). Bryce met Ian Fleming in 1917 on a beach in Cornwall, and they attended Eton College where their friendship flourished. It quickly seems to have changed the whole attitude of Fleming to his hero and his work and to have made him decide that his next book, instead of finishing off Bond for good, would go to the opposite extreme' (Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming, London, 1966, p.313).Ī finer association copy is scarcely imaginable. When he received Chandler's approval about his previous book 'the real importance of the friendship went beyond the mere restoration of Fleming's confidence in James Bond. With Moonraker, the most self-consciously autobiographical of the Bond novels yet, Fleming began to experience a few doubts as to the seriousness of his writing. Ian.' Fleming dedicated his next work, Diamonds Are Forever, to (among others) his friend Ivar (see lot 212).

A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FLEMING TO IVAR BRYCE, a model for the character of James Bond on the front free endpaper: 'To Ivar Vol III of the Collected Works. Provenance: John Felix Charles Bryce (“Ivar”) (presentation inscription from the author).įIRST EDITION of Fleming's third Bond novel. Original black boards, lettered in silver pictorial dust jacket after a design by Ian Fleming and Kenneth Lewis (spine panel slightly faded, a few short nicks).

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