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Ian Fleming sgd manuscript From Russia With Love

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857. Ian Fleming autograph manuscript relating to the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. (UA, 1963) Autograph manuscript notebook of seven lined pages in blue ink with numerous revisions, 6 ¼ in. x 4 in., undated, circa 1963, possibly from London, regarding the making of the movie From Russia with Love. Fleming writes a humorous report about himself pretending to do a news story. He writes [in part]: "Ian Fleming, just back from Istanbul, reports that the filming of From Russia with Love is going forward, under the generalship of producers Salzman and Broccoli & director Terence Young with even more zest than the 70 strong unit displayed on the Dr. No location in Jamaica last year…Fleming's official business was to unravel a snarl in the script, but his secret purpose was to make sure that the rats & bats in his book got into the film…He thinks From Russia with Love, due here in the autumn, will be even better than Dr. No, which has been breaking records all round the world…& which opened to capacity business in America on Monday…Meanwhile the typescript of the next James Bond is on the way to Jonathan Cape – setting Japan. Title – You Only Live Twice…"

Fleming manuscript material is rare on the market, with only a few items of any significance ever having appeared at auction. Housed in a custom half-morocco clamshell slipcase. $40000 - $60000