Biblio Bond

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James Bond never reads much more than Scarne on Cards and the occasional thriller. However, his creator, Ian Fleming, was a serious bibliophile, who in a little known parallel existence founded the leading trade magazine The Book Collector, ran the upmarket Queen Anne Press, which published his friends Evelyn Waugh and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and put together an extraordinary collection of books which “made things happen”. He provided the largest number of privately owned books to the prestigious Printing and the Mind of Man exhibition mounted at the British Museum and Earls Court in 1963, the year before his premature death.