Octopussy & The Living Daylights: Discover two of the most beloved James Bond stories (James Bond 007, 14)

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in New York” takes Bond to the titular city to warn an ex-agent of her boyfriend’s secret KGB affiliation. The third edition of the collection appeared in 2002, expanded with a fourth short story, "007 in New York". First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles and decorative endpapers; 95pp. James Bond started out as a literary character and soon turned into a movie franchise, becoming a “pop culture” icon in the process.

A fine copy in like wrapper with some soiling to reverse side of the front panel which is barely noticeable to artwork side. Bond chooses not to take Smythe into custody immediately, but leaves him to contemplate his options – suicide or a court martial. It could easily have become a boring story but, instead, Fleming manages to ratchet up the tension, giving us a taste of what his character must have felt in his vigils in a blacked-out apartment. In the Second World War, he commanded the 2nd regiment of the Mechanised Brigade of the Arab Legion and later joined the British Council for Palestine-Transjordan. As for "007 in New York", some aficionados feel that, though unfilmed, the story's spirit is in the New York City segment of the 1973 film Live and Let Die.original gilt black boards with spine lettered in silver and original dustjacket by Richard Chopping.

This particular novel was adapted into a film starring Roger Moore as Bond and Maud Adams as Octopussy.

A likely more direct reference, however, is the closing sequence of Quantum of Solace which depicts Bond on a mission to warn a Canadian agent that her boyfriend is an enemy, paralleling Bond's mission in "007 in New York"; in addition, the character name Solange from the short story was given to a character in the 2006 Casino Royale film. We see him through the eyes of ex-Secret Service agent Major Dexter Smythe, a 54-year-old widower living in Jamaica, who is killing himself slowly via too much smoke and too much drink. So this is an odds and sods collection of leftover James Bond stories published after Ian Fleming died, and a few years into the movie series. There are like a gazillion other books written by other authors, and undoubtedly I will be reading them along this process as well.

The Living Daylights" had first appeared in The Sunday Times on 4 February 1962; "The Property of a Lady" was commissioned by Sotheby's for the 1963 edition of their journal, The Ivory Hammer; while "007 in New York" first appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in October 1963. The Secret Service operative James Bond, code name 007, is assigned to apprehend a hero of the Second World War implicated in a murder involving a cache of Nazi gold.

Presented is the first edition, first impression of the fourteenth title in Ian Fleming s James Bond series, Octopussy and The Living Daylights. While not perhaps on such an epic scale as other 007 tales all three episodes are written with Fleming's superb journalistic style. But I can't stay I'm too impressed by these short stories,or Bond's preoccupation with smoking and drinking. Bond attends the auction in hopes of spotting this man; after doing so the man is expelled from London as persona non grata. 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.