Ian Fleming: The Notes

(London: Queen Anne Press 2020). 8vo. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION IN SLIPCASE (not issued with a dustwrapper). COPY "R" OF 26 COPIES (LETTERED A-Z), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE AND ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY FERGUS FLEMING AT THE END OF HIS INTRODUCTION. Publisher's half-red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, design to upper cover in gilt, original black embossed slip-case. A very fine copy in like slip-case. As new. These are the notes that John Pearson made in 1965 while researching The Life of Ian Fleming, which chart not only Fleming's life with details that never made it into the finished biography but John's own journey while investigating his subject. As such they form less a series of aides memoires than a book about writing a book. Compelling, insightful, irreverent and written in John's inimitable style, they make an outstanding read. As a young man, John Pearson worked as Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times, where together they produced the Atticus column. In 1966, two years after Fleming's death, he published his celebrated work The Life of Ian Fleming. Laid in is a compliments slip from the Queen Anne Press. NB: This Deluxe Edition sold out immediately upon publication. Further photographs available upon request.…