Kingsley Amis — The James Bond Dossier

London, Jonathan Cape, 1965 . First edition. Cloth. The very smart first edition of Kingsley Amis's celebrated literary study of James Bond, complete with its the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding.  First edition.  Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.  The first formal literary study of Ian Fleming's celebrated secret agent, James Bond, published in 1965, just a year after Fleming's death.  This work analyses the majority of the Bond canon, only omitting only 'Octopussy and the Living Daylights', which was published a year later.  Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) was a celebrated British novelist, poet and literary critic, best remembered for his debut novel, Lucky Jim (1954). A devoted admirer of Fleming's work, he was subsequently commissioned to write the first James Bond continuation novel, Colonel Sun (1968), under the pseudonym Robert Markham. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Ownership inscription to font free endpaper. Dust wrapper, lovely. Slight sunning to spine and extremities with one or two very minor marks. Minor edge wear to extremities, more so to spine ends. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.