John Pearson

First edition, limited issue and one of only 100 copies of Ian Fleming: The Notes.

• John Pearson (British).
• Introduction by Fergus Fleming (British).
• London: Queen Anne Press, 2020.
• pp.375; [1], blank.
• Octavo.
• Bound in dark-blue Plike paper-covered boards, red endpapers, blocked in gilt to spine and front cover, semi-opaque dust jacket with printed titles.

Never before published, 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 memoirs than a book about writing a book. Compelling, insightful, irreverent and written in John’s inimitable style, they make an outstanding read.