Books That Had Started Something. Ian Fleming's Book Collection
SILVER, Joel
Published by London: Queen Anne Press, 2017
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[Bibliography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, being the first separate edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[vi]; 26; [8], Endmatter. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies signed by James Fleming (publisher of The Book Collector) and his brother Fergus (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press). Finely printed on 150gsm Bockingford paper and bound in black flock-paper covers with letterpress title label. As new. Taken from the Spring 2017 special issue of The Book Collector (Ian Fleming and Book Collecting), in a handsome edition letterpress-printed in Monotype Fournier by Stan Lane of Gloucester Typesetting. Author Joel Silver is Director of The Lilly Library, Indiana University, where Ian Fleming's famous book collection, the James Bond manuscripts and his papers are deposited. Seller Inventory # 66354
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Title: Books That Had Started Something. Ian ...
Publisher: London: Queen Anne Press, 2017
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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Books That Had Started Something: Ian Fleming's book collection
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Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Black card wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies signed by the publishers, Ian Fleming's nephews Fergus Fleming (Queen Anne Press) and James Fleming (The Book Collector). Article reprinted from the Spring 2017 special issue of The Book Collector ("Ian Fleming & Book Collecting"), in a handsome edition letterpress-printed in Monotype Fournier by Stan Lane of Gloucester Typesetting; loosely inserted in this copy is an offprint of the original article (red card wrappers, [150 copies printed]), with 13 pages of illustrations - of the first golf manual, the Communist Party Manifesto, Lumière's Le Cinématographe, Baden Powell's Scouting for Boys, Einstein's Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätsheorie, Fleming's bookshelves at Sevenhampton Place, the typescript of Live and Let Die etc. Ian Fleming ran the Queen Anne Press, first publishers of The Book Collector, from 1951 to 1955, and owned the journal from 1955 until his death. Starting in the 1930s, with the help of his friend the bookseller Percy Muir, he assembled a remarkable collection of "Books That Had Started Something", later a principal source for the 1963 "Printing and the Mind of Man" exhibition. During Fleming's lifetime, David Randall of the Lilly Library at Indiana University courted him in the hope of securing the collection, but it wasn't until six years after Fleming's death in 1964 that Muir completed the sale. Joel Silver, the present Director of the Lilly Library, drawing on Randall's correspondence with Fleming and Muir, tells the extraordinary history of Fleming's collection and its final arrival in Indiana. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 20M300207
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