Fleming Ian Lancaster 1908 1964 Bartlett Michael Editor (1 results)

First Edition. [Golfing omnibus] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 21cm), pp.282. Publisher's green hardcovers in photographic dust-wrapper. Fine in a near fine jacket with a few short tears. An Anthology of Golf Writing. Includes 'All to Play For/The Cup and The Lip' being the famous showdown on the golf course between 007 and Auric Goldfinger, from Ian Fleming's 1958 thriller. Also contains golf writing from P.G. Wodehouse, John Updike, Arnold Palmer, Bernard Darwin and others. This copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (bookplate within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert A7b, p.263.…