Ian Fleming – Thunderball – First UK Edition 1961 – SIGNED by Henry Blofeld
£1,850.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Thunderball’ by Ian Fleming, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1961. A very good book with some light marking to the page block. SIGNED without dedication to the front endpaper by Henry Blofeld. In a very good unclipped wrapper designed by Richard Chopping. None of the usual heavy browning to the spine – some wear to the corners and spine tips.
Henry Blofeld, the much-loved cricket commentator known as “Blowers”, has an unexpected Bond connection. His father, Thomas Blofeld, was at Eton with Ian Fleming, and the family name is widely believed to have inspired Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the SPECTRE mastermind first introduced in Fleming’s 1961 novel Thunderball. The link gives the broadcaster’s genial Old Etonian persona a delicious contrast: one Blofeld became a voice of cricket; the other, Bond’s supreme villain of icy cinematic menace.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Thunderball’ by Ian Fleming, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1961. A very good book with some light marking to the page block. SIGNED without dedication to the front endpaper by Henry Blofeld. In a very good unclipped wrapper designed by Richard Chopping. None of the usual heavy browning to the spine – some wear to the corners and spine tips.
Henry Blofeld, the much-loved cricket commentator known as “Blowers”, has an unexpected Bond connection. His father, Thomas Blofeld, was at Eton with Ian Fleming, and the family name is widely believed to have inspired Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the SPECTRE mastermind first introduced in Fleming’s 1961 novel Thunderball. The link gives the broadcaster’s genial Old Etonian persona a delicious contrast: one Blofeld became a voice of cricket; the other, Bond’s supreme villain of icy cinematic menace.
