Correspondence relating to the publication of Spy who loved me by Ian Fleming

Book published as: Spy who loved me / by Ian Fleming, London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Contents: correspondence between Jonathan Cape Ltd. and Peter Janson-Smith, Ltd., literary agents of London (12 items), relating to contract and foreign rights; 39 items of correspondence with Ian Fleming, relating to revisions; dust jacket design; blurb; correction of proofs; publicity appearances; allegedly defamatory remarks made on BBC's 'Today' programme; includes Today magazine of 21/04/62; also some reference to illustrations for 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'; 11 items of correspondence with Richard (Dicky) Chopping, jacket illustrator for 'Spy who loved me'; 23 items of correspondence with Viking Press, Inc., publishers of New York, relating to production and design of dust jacket; sending of proofs to U.S.; advance announcement; serialization; changes in publication date; also 9 items relating to book club edition with W. & G. Foyle, Ltd., booksellers of London; 6 items of correspondence with Rubinstein, Nash & Co., solicitors of London, relating to reading of text for obscenity; includes notes on censorship in Canada; also letters relating to embargos on the book in South Africa and Australia; 6 items of correspondence with William Heinemann, Ltd., publishers of London, in relation to their proposed Canadian edition; also some letters of complaint from the general public.
Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.
From the Cape book files - 1962 D - Gr.

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