[Live and Let Die sourcebook]—Patrick Leigh Fermor | The Traveller's Tree, 1950, Ian Fleming's personal copy, signed by Fleming

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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September 22, 01:16 PM GMT

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[Live and Let Die sourcebook]—Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Traveller's Tree. London: John Murray, 1950

IAN FLEMING'S PERSONAL COPY (signed to the flyleaf: "Ian Fleming | 16 Victoria Square | SW1"), 8vo, numerous sections of the text marked in pencil in margin, original green cloth, dust-jacket, area of restoration to front pastedown, rebacked, dust-jacket chipped at extremities with circa 4cm. tear to lower panel and minor loss at spine ends

Fleming's personal copy, showing heavy use from research. Fleming's zombie voodoo god Baron Samedi and the references to Haitian voodoo culture were directly influenced by The Traveller's Tree. Indeed, a number of paragraphs from the chapters on voodoo and black magic are marked in pencil in the margins in this copy, and the text is cited within the text (Live and Let Die, p. 29). Fermor later contributed to The Seven Deadly Sins, a literary project conceived by Fleming.

LITERATURE:

Gilbert, p. 619, B3

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