Wolf MANKOWITZ / The Mendelman Fire Signed 1st Edition
Description: [Short fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, with a fine association. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.
Red hardback cloth binding lettered in gilt to the spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 12/6. A few brown spots to fore-edge else fine in a lightly used jacket with some small chips to spine ends. Two groups of short stories, one being London centric and the others being set in the home village of the author's Russian-Jewish heritage. With Mankowitz's presentation note to the title page.The recipient is close friend Jacqueline [Jackie] Saltzman, a displaced Romanian who married film producer Harry Saltzman. Wolf Mankowitz introduced Cubby Broccoli to Harry Saltzman, who formed Eon, the company responsible for producing the James Bond films. Mankowitz was a screenwriter for their first picture Dr.
No (1962), and also contributed to writing the non-Eon Bond movie Casino Royale (1967). From the James Bond collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled note and ownership signature. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971. As part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells. Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields.Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera. All books and dust-jackets are supplied in suitable archival quality protectors and orders are professionally packed in bubble wrap and high quality cardboard book packs to ensure that they arrive safely.
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