To James Bond With Love

To James Bond With Love
by Mary Wickham Bond
Adopted by
Amy L. Snyder
on November 16, 2016
Side View of plain blue cover of To James Bond with Love with the title in gold lettering on the spine

To James Bond with love

By Mary Wickham Bond. Lititz, PA: Sutter House, 1980.

The lives of James and Mary Bond, a Philadelphia ornithologist and author, respectively, were altered the day that author Ian Fleming, a bird lover who was familiar with Bond’s book “The Birds of the West Indies,” appropriated James Bond’s name for his fictional spy character.  In this biography of her husband, Mary Wickham Bond describes in delightful stories her life with him, both ornithological and literary.  It includes such anecdotes as the time the ‘real’ James Bond met Ian Fleming (there’s a photo of this event in the book, which took place in Goldeneye, Jamaica) and managing episodes of misunderstandings, correspondence, publicity, etc. that came with having such a famous name. Often associated with his famous, Martini-focused catchphrase "Shaken, not stirred," the fictional James Bond remains one of pop-cultures most celebrated figures to this day. 

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