FLEMING, Ian. Four Your Eyes Only: Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. 8 o. Original black boards stamped in white; pictorial dust jacket after a design by Richard Chopping (very minor darkening to spine). Provenance : Violet and Guy Benson (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION of Fleming's only collection of Bond short stories. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FLEMING on front free endpaper: "To Vi & Guy In exchange for a fine day! Ian." Violet Benson, the sister of Lady Diana Cooper (Mrs. Stitch in Evelyn Waugh's novels) was Ann Fleming's aunt by marriage, twice over. First, Ann's father's brother, Lord Elcho, married Lady Violet in 1911; second, Ann's mother's sister, Kathleen ("Kakoo"), married Lady Violet's brother John, the ninth Duke of Rutland. Lord Elcho died in 1916, and five years later Lady Violet married Guy Benson. Ann, was quite fond of her "Aunt Letty."
FLEMING, Ian. Four Your Eyes Only: Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. 8 o. Original black boards stamped in white; pictorial dust jacket after a design by Richard Chopping (very minor darkening to spine). Provenance : Violet and Guy Benson (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION of Fleming's only collection of Bond short stories. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FLEMING on front free endpaper: "To Vi & Guy In exchange for a fine day! Ian." Violet Benson, the sister of Lady Diana Cooper (Mrs. Stitch in Evelyn Waugh's novels) was Ann Fleming's aunt by marriage, twice over. First, Ann's father's brother, Lord Elcho, married Lady Violet in 1911; second, Ann's mother's sister, Kathleen ("Kakoo"), married Lady Violet's brother John, the ninth Duke of Rutland. Lord Elcho died in 1916, and five years later Lady Violet married Guy Benson. Ann, was quite fond of her "Aunt Letty."
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