Ian & I.
USA: Privately Printed, No date (1980s). [Biography / Memoirs] ENLARGED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.152; [9]. Illustrated with maps, photographs and facsimile letters. Original blue buckram-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and upper. A fine copy. Partially re-written, with a new epilogue, this edition is in a larger format that the first printing. Equally scarce, this is the only copy we have encountered. A first-hand account of Ian Fleming's war service, written by his opposite number and close friend Commander Alan N. Schneider, U.S.N.R., the personal assistant to the U.S. Head of Intelligence in London, Commodore Tully Shelley [Cdr. Fleming was the assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral John Godfrey]. The volume contains some previously unpublished photographs of Fleming, accompanied by Schneider, mostly taken in Northern France while overseeing commando operations of 30 Assault Unit. Both men were keen bibliophiles, and following the war, Schneider was President of the American Library Association, while Fleming managed The Book Collector Ltd. and ran his own publishing house. This copy comes from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #66190
Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.597.
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