Literary 007 / 1953–1966 - Ian Fleming / 1954 - Live And Let Die
Sale of Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die causes stir
007 novel found at Oxfam charity shop sells for almost 3,500 pounds
Written by Devin Zydel on 12 Nov, 2009
A James Bond first edition by Ian Fleming has raised more than £3,000 at Edinburgh charity shop Oxfam.
Ian Fleming
The Edinburgh News reports that a donated copy of Live and Let Die, Fleming’s second 007 novel, was sold for almost £3,500.
The Bond title originally estimated to be worth around £800 but sold for more than four times that amount at Bonhams Auction House in Oxford, at the end of September.
The book turned up by surprise in a charity bin bag in September.
Oxfam Morningside bookshop manager Andy Crosby said: ‘Everyone at the shop was eager to see how much the book would be auctioned for. I didn’t think that it would raise so much money and I am thrilled that it did.’
‘It is not every day you manage to raise such an amount from the sale of one book, and the money will help to make a real difference to Oxfam’s programmes.’
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