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The Original First James Bond is Sean Connery
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The origin of the name "James Bond"

In 1952 a London Times columnist and former Royal Navy intelligence officer named Ian Fleming was writing Casino Royale, which he vowed would be "the spy story to end all spy stories" at Goldeneye, his vacation home on the north shore of Jamaica. He didn't yet have a name for his character and wanted "the dullest name I could find". His eyes fell upon a favourite book on his coffee table entitled "Birds of the West Indies" by an American ornithologist named-you guessed it-James Bond. He appropriated the name and the rest, as they say, is history.

Ian Fleming had a copy of a book called, "Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies" on his book shelf at Goldeneye in Jamaica. It was written by James Bond. It was the 1947 printing by The Macmillan Company of New York and was the first commercial printing of this book. The true first edition was published in 1936 by Waverly Press, Inc of Baltimore, Maryland, for The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. As Fleming did not discover Jamaica as a potential location for a retreat until after the second world war and due to the limited distribution of James Bond's first printing of his book by Waverly Press and the fact that, "Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies" was only published once commercial before 1953 when Fleming first published, "Casino Royale", I think that it is safe to say that the exact edition of James Bond's, "Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies" was the 1947 Macmillan edition.

David A. Reinhardt
The Ian Fleming Foundation

The Complete List of James Bond Feature Films:

1
DR NO 11 MOONRAKER
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 12 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
3
GOLDFINGER 13 OCTOPUSSY
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THUNDERBALL 14 A VIEW TO KILL
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YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE 15 LIVING DAYLIGHTS
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ON HER MAJESTY SECRET SERVICE 16 LICENSE TO KILL
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DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER 17 GOLDENEYE
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LIVE AND LET DIE 18 CASINO ROYALE (1954)
9
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN` 19 CASINO ROYALE (1967)
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THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 20 NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN

And Here's the Different James Bond of All Times.........

GEORGE LAZENBY

ROGER MOORE

TIMOTHY DALTON

The three different portrayers of James Bond

PIERCE BROSNAN

SEAN CONNERY played James Bond for the most times ever. Voted the best Bond of all times.

And when we talk about James Bond, there's one aspect that's a must. It's about those glamorous

BOND'S GIRLS!!

AKIKO WAKABAYASHI

BRITT EKLAND

HONEY RYDER (The first Bond girl in DR. NO)

KISSY SUZUKI

MAUD ADAMS

NATALYA SIMINOVA

PUSSY GALORE

JANE SEYMOUR

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