![]() ![]() ![]() It is possible that Fleming used the book as background (as he had for Patrick Leigh Fermor’s, ‘Traveller’s Tree’ for ‘Live and Let Die’) for the health clinic scenes in the book of ‘Thunderball’, either introduced to the text by a member of the publishing house, or introduced to it by one of the man Harley Street specialists he used to visit. This is borne out in his book, ‘My Two Hands Talk’, published by Christopher Johnson in the same year as ‘From Russia With Love’ Singleton-Ward operated in Harley Street as a specialist physiotherapist in the 1950s and 1960s. ![]() ![]() Singleton-Ward was born in Droitwich at the turn of the century and studied as a masseur and physiotherapist in the area and was certainly still operating in the area in the 1940s. Singleton-Ward/ In (I hope)/Gratitude/ Ian Fleming/ 1957’/ The book is inscribed with the Author’s signed presentation inscription to the front endpaper, ‘To R. Some shallow v-shape loss to the spine ends. The dust wrapper is unclipped and original to the book. A little spotting to the contents, with a little creasing to the rear board and little cracking to the rear pastedown. The book has a little spotting within and some wear to the boards and edges. Red rose and metallic gun to the front board. Bound in the original black boards with silver titles on spine. A first edition, first printing published by Jonathan Cape in 1957. ![]()
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