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Casino royale book 1st edition11/24/2023 Jackson, Who says nice things! From Ian Fleming.” After Jackson’s death in 1964 it was revealed that he had been a CIA agent, making this personal memento a compelling association of two important figures in the British/American nexus of WWII and Cold War intelligence operatives. ![]() Jackson, who had worked at Time magazine briefly before the war, went on to work at Life, and clearly kept in touch with the author. Jackson was the Deputy Chief at the Psychological Warfare Division at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at the time Fleming was working for Britain’s Naval Intelligence Division. ![]() Sold for $16,250.Ĭold War cloak-and-dagger machinations, epitomizing the Fleming/Bond oeuvre, is well-played by an inscribed copy of Thunderball, 1961, presented to friend Charles Douglas Jackson. Casino Royale, novel by British writer Ian Fleming, published in 1953, which is the first of his 12 blockbuster novels about the suave and supercompetent British spy James Bond. Lot 134: Ian Fleming, Thunderball, first edition, first issue, with dust jacket, presentation copy inscribed by Fleming, London, 1961. Published by Jonathan Cape in London in 1953, with the essential First Published 1953 to the inner page, with no later titles stated, this is not the book.
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