"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
London: Conde Nast, 1969. [Literary Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.272, with illustrations throughout. Publisher's yellow cloth, illustrated green endpapers, typographic dust-jacket priced at 42s / 2.10. A fine copy of the book in an attractive near fine wrapper with some sunning to the spine. This is the yellow jacket with variant illustrated design; a blue typographic wrapper was also produced. Contains Ian Fleming's article on Jamaica, the island where, at his winter retreat named Goldeneye, he wrote one Bond novel a year from 1952/3-1964. Also includes contributions from Mrs Ian Fleming, Randolph Churchill, Aldous Huxley, John Carter, Robert Graves and John Betjeman. Item #74249
Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming The Bibliography C124.
Price: £68.00
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