You Only Live Once. Memories of Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. [Biography] REVISED EDITION, scarce. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.142. With a suite of 8 black and white illustrations. Publisher's pale blue cloth binding with original dust-wrapper priced £8.95. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A particularly crisp, fine copy in similar jacket with deep red lettering to spine. This is the revised version -the 1975 original was withdrawn. Even this UK reissue is now scarce (the U.S equivalent is common by comparison). A biography of Ian Fleming from his oldest and closest friend. This copy is from the comprehensive Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #67392
Gilbert, p.596.
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