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London: Cape, 1963. A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1963. A very good/near fine book in like wrapper which is not clipped and has the usual fading to the spine and wear to the spine tips. Edges browned. Now housed in custom-made solander box mirroring the boards of the book itself. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Fleming: "To Una/Who did so much of/the real work!/from/Ian Fleming" The inscription is a warm one and Una is mentioned within the text of the book ("Take down a letter Miss Trueblood" - p. 28). Una Trueblood was Fleming's secretary at Kemsley. She typed up the television treatment that Fleming later developed into the novel Doctor No and, like many of Fleming's acquaintances, she gives her name to a character in the novel: Mary Trueblood, secretary to the MI6 station in Jamaica. In the story, Mary Trueblood was a former Chief Officer WRNS and secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service's Caribbean station…

A travelogue by Ian Fleming detailing his adventures in various cities around the world, originally written as a series of articles for the London Sunday Times.