Long before becoming celebrated (and reviled) as the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming had been a serious bibliophile, building an impressive collection of books from the 1930s onwards. Both Bond and bibliophilia played significant roles in the life of Ian’s nephew, James Fleming, who has died aged 80.
Both aspects of Ian Fleming’s work mattered greatly to him. Initially wary of his uncle’s literary legacy, James Fleming eventually became both proprietor and editor of the Book Collector, the specialist journal that Ian launched in 1952.
