Ian Fleming.
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. [Literary biography]. FIRST EDITION, octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 144. Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, photographic dust-wrapper. A fine copy in a near fine jacket, slightly scuffed to extremities. A book-length biography of James Bond's creator, written by two history scholars from Brown University, Providence, R.I. From the collection of Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler and later part of the comprehensive archive of James Bond material assembled by Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his pencil notes to that effect on the endpaper. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #64853
Gilbert p.596.
Price: £85.00




