The Cool Crazy Committed World of the Sixties. Twenty One Television Encounters (Mrs. Ian Fleming's copy). By Pierre Berton

[Ian Fleming / Bondiana] BERTON, Pierre

Published by Toronto and Montreal: MacLelland and Stewart Limited, 1966

About this Item

[Sixties culture] FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED by the author to Ann Fleming, wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.217; [1], blank. Publisher's cloth in a striking pictorial wrapper. Presentation note to flyleaf: For Mrs. Fleming / with my best wishes / Pierre Breton. / Sept. '66. A clean, fine copy in a near fine, lightly rubbed jacket. Flexidisc recording of the interviews held in a pocket at rear. Pierre Francis De Marigny Berton, (1920-2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction and was a well-known television personality and journalist. An accomplished storyteller, Berton was one of Canada's most prolific and popular authors, writing mainly about popular culture and Canadian history. This book contains the transcripts of the pick of interviews from Berton's nightly television programme, which ran throughout this exceptional decade. Guests/contributors include Michael Caine, Malcolm X, Phil Spector and Lenny Bruce. Mrs. Ian Fleming's article 'Widow to a Legend' can be found on p.147. Previously owned by Iwan Hedman-Morelius, a crime connoisseur, mystery magazine publisher and a respected figure in Bond-collecting circles (with his characteristic and discreet ink notation to top corner), subsequently part of the Jon Gilbert collection.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cool Crazy Committed World of the Sixties. Twenty One Television Encounters (Mrs. Ian Fleming's copy). By Pierre Berton
• Publisher: Toronto and Montreal: MacLelland and Stewart Limited, 1966
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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