FLEMING, IAN. [THE WORKS], CENTENARY EDITION, QUEEN ANNE PRESS, SHEPARDS, SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BINDING, 18 VOLUMES

18 volumes, 8vo, CENTENARY EDITION, (marking the author's birth), limited to 406 sets of 18 titles, OF WHICH THIS IS COPY 'A' OF 26 SETS SPECIALLY BOUND BY SHEPHERDS, SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, the first volume Casino Royale signed by the publisher (the author's nephew) Fergus Fleming, designed and typeset by the Libanus Press, each volume bound in full onlaid blue morocco hand-bound to an original pattern by Webb & Webb design, including diamonds, crystals and pieces of eight set within the covers, gold and silver leaf tooling, feathered morocco onlays, watermarked endpapers, all edges gilt, original leather-trimmed, fleece-lined slipcases lettered in gilt

Gilbert F10

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"The most comprehensive collection of the writings of Ian Fleming to be published" - Gilbert During his lifetime Fleming was the author of seventeen published books: twelve James Bond novels, two volumes of Bond short stories; a book of travel journalism, Thrilling Cities; a nonfictional account of the diamond trade, The Diamond Smugglers, and the children's book, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. This collected edition--in fact the first of its kind ever published--adds Talk of the Devil, a collection of rarely seen material (some unpublished), as well as explanatory comments written by Fleming in the flyleaves of his personal copies.