The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1966. [Literary biography] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.339; [1], blank, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in black and yellow (the BCE binding is brown), pictorial jacket priced at $6.95. A fine copy in a particularly fresh jacket. 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. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler, purchased by ourselves at Swann Auctions in 2010, with a pencil note to that effect signed by his friend and colleague Jon Gilbert. Penzler's Mysterious Press, New York, published books by the James Bond continuation novelists John Gardner and Jeffery Deaver. Item #65798
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