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The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson
- Bookseller: Spirit Tomes and Treasures
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 000077
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Poor
- Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place: New York & Evanston, Illinois USA
- Date published: 1966
Description
New York & Evanston, Illinois USA: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966 A psychological portrait of the creator of James Bond. What Bond could do Fleming could or actually did, better. Shows which of Fleming's own adventures were incorporated into his book tales. Through his research John Pearson identifies the real and surprising counterpart to "M", the icy and all knowing fictitious head of British Secret Service. Photo of Fleming on dust jacket. Edges of pages show yellowing. Yellow cloth cover in excelllent condition. Dust jacket relatively intact though tattered on top edges, slight wrinkling of back flap. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
book club edition : A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the overall quality of the book's materials is lower than the same book as printed by a traditional publishing house.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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