The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1966. [Literary biography] U.S. EDITION, book club issue, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.366; [1], [5], blank, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth, pictorial jacket. Jacket clipped else fine. An informative first-hand biography of James Bond's creator, written by a close friend and colleague working alongside the author both in wartime intelligence work and as Fleming's assistant at the Foreign Desk of The Sunday Times. This book club edition has different pagination and cloth binding to the first edition. This copy is from the comprehensive collection of Jon Gilbert, who reviewed Pearson's book Ian Fleming The Notes (bookplate and pencilled signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #65796
Gilbert, page 592.
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