Ian Fleming: 'The Diamond Smugglers', London, Jonathan Cape,...

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£50

Ian Fleming: 'The Diamond Smugglers', London, Jonathan Cape, 1957, 1st edition, original black cloth with titles to the spine in bronze, dust wrapper (by Denis Piper, 12s 6d price intact.) One of only two non-fiction books published by Fleming, The Diamond Smugglers was written in collaboration with John Collard (under the pseudonym "John Blaize"), the MI5 agent who co-ordinated the elimination of a diamond smuggling racket in West Africa during the mid-1950s, and Sir Percy Sillitoe, the former head of MI5 and founder of IDSO.