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[Biography / Journalism] FIRST EDITION, publisher's complimentary/presentation copy. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.397; [3], blank. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. Publisher's cloth in typographic dust-wrapper priced at 36s. Collins' slip tucked in, signed on behalf of the publisher. Contents clean, jacket bright and fresh but for one unfortunate loss to rear panel. Very good indeed. Engaging biography of Baron Thomson of Fleet, the Canadian-born British television and newspaper proprietor, one of the original 'media moguls'. Thomson owned Kemsley Newspapers, for whom Ian Fleming was employed as Foreign Manager and sat on the board. This copy is from the comprehensive archive of Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within), whose encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Ian Fleming The Bibliography (2017 edition), p.644.
