Item #69370 The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Ian / Bibliography FLEMING.
The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, no date [1951]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's plain soft covers, titled to upper. A little toned, with light spotting to covers, some light handling. Very good. A complete list of all the books in the Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books, including two items loaned by future 'James Bond' novelist Ian Fleming. Other private lenders included Viscount Kemsley (Sunday Times), J.B. Priestley, Ralph Richardson, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter de la Mare, E.M. Forster, Bernard Darwin and Dame Sybil Thorndike. This catalogue is from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #69370

Price: £75.00

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