FLEMING, Ian (intro.)

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Collection of books and magazines with an introduction by Ian Fleming. A representative collection of works for which Fleming supplied a preface, reflecting the breadth of his interests. It opens with the first appearance in print of "Poker Player" in the Spring 1959 issue of Now & Then Magazine, accompanied by the first UK book-form printing of the piece in Herbert O. Yardley's The Education of a Poker Player, a work Fleming praised for its exemplary gambling stories. It continues with Donald E. W. Fish's Airline Detective (1962), here in its first edition together with the contemporary US and paperback issues; although uncredited, the book was co-written by John Pearson, later Fleming's authorized biographer, and Fleming commends its sharp, unsentimental account of police work.The collection also includes The Seven Deadly Sins (1962), conceived by Fleming and here in the first printing with the uncensored copyright page, alongside the earlier edition published without his introduction. This anthology - featuring contributions from Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connolly, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Sykes, and W. H. Auden - grew out of Fleming's musings on the moral undercurrents of his Sunday Times editorial board. H. Montgomery Hyde's Room 3603 follows in its first US appearance, together with the earlier British edition (The Quiet Canadian) and the subsequent UK issue incorporating Fleming's introduction. Hyde's book, inscribed to broadcaster Roy P

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