The Making of a Publisher. A Life in the 20th Century Book Revolution.
New York: Reynal / Morrow, 1967. [Publishing] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.360. With a frontispiece portrait. Linen-backed brown cloth, patterned endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper priced at $6.95. Contents clean, top edge dusty/spotted, jacket rubbed, worn to spine ends. Very good. Autobiography of Victor Weybright, the American author and publisher who headed the publishing company New American Library, which published Ian Fleming's James Bond books in both hardcover and paperback. With many references to Fleming within. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with his pencilled notes and ownership signature to half title. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #64601
Gilbert, p.602.
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