Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies. Guide to all the species of birds known from the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and Bahama Islandsq

New York: Macmillan, 1947. Good=. 20 cm; 257 pages. Color frontispiece and 211 figures in text. Cloth in price-clipped green illustrated dust jacket. Illustration of Ivory Billed Woodpecker on lower flap. Field notes in pencil on half-title dated 1950. Small abrasion on front pastedown. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper.

Ian Fleming, a keen birdwatcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with Bond's book, and chose the name of its author for the hero of Casino Royale (1953), apparently because he wanted a name that sounded 'as ordinary as possible'. It was not until 1964 that he met with the real Bond and his wife in Jamaica, where Fleming presented him with a signed pre-publication copy of You Only Live Twice. (Inventory #: 6589)