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Author:	Mary Wickham Bond
Title:	How 007 Got His Name
Publisher:	Collins
Country:	UK
Date:	1966
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Biography
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 1 Wants
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Written by the wife of American ornithologist James Bond.

62 pages, with two photographic illustrations comprising a frontispiece portrait of the subject and Ian Fleming's only meeting with James Bond.

© Mary F. W. Bond, 1966.
Printed in Great Britain. Collins Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow.

Book dimensions: Octavo (20 cm x 15cm). Clothbound in a pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by Barbosa, after Richard Chopping's designs for the jackets of the original 007 novels.

The back of the dust-jacket bears a black and white photo of Ian Fleming's inscription to James Bond on the front free end paper of a British First Edition of Fleming's latest novel You Only Live Twice that he gave to Bond when they met in February 1964. In December 2008 the book was put up for auction, eventually fetching $84,000 (£56,000) - see here.

The photographic illustrations are used with acknowledgement to the author and publisher, and are included here for educational purposes.

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Number: 1933800 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Front of dust-jacket.	Number: 1933803 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Front of dust-jacket with spine.	Number: 1933805 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Left flap of dust-jacket.	Number: 1933806 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Front board.
Number: 1933807 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Frontispiece portrait of James Bond. Photo © Mary F. W. Bond, 1966.	Number: 1933808 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Title page.	Number: 1933809 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Colophon.	Number: 1933810 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Dedication.
Number: 1933813 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Photo of James Bond and Ian Fleming, 5 February 1964. The only occasion they met. Photo © Mary F. W. Bond, 1966.	Number: 1933814 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Right flap of dust-jacket.	Number: 1933815 Uploaded By: JPGR&B SUBS Description: Back of dust-jacket.

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JPGR&B SUBS 22nd Nov 2021		No. 1 in the Top 50 books viewed yesterday, probably as a result of featuring the entry on a James Bond books Facebook group.



JPGR&B SUBS 25th Apr 2019		When ornithologist James Bond called in on Ian Fleming at Goldeneye on 5 February 1964, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) were in the middle of interviewing the author. When he broke off to greet Mr and Mrs Bond, the cameras followed them outside. I have not been able to track down footage of this, but what follows in this clip is the CBC interviewer asking Fleming how he came about selecting a name for the hero of his books.

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