Vintage leather-bound 6.75 x 5.5 autograph album signed inside in black ink, "Ian L. Fleming, Eton," who draws a brilliant original full-length sketch of a pistol-shooting cowboy with a ten-gallon hat and a rope running from his hip to the bit of his horse, and adding above, "'Tom Mix arrives.'" In fine condition. In 1921, a 13-year-old Fleming enrolled at Eton College, an illustrious boarding school where he excelled at sports and edited the school magazine, The Wyvern. His tenure at Eton was cut a term early, however, when his house master E. V. Slater persuaded Fleming’s mother to prepare him for entry to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1927. Given how this sketch was achieved during his formative schooling years, Fleming's portrayal of Mix, Hollywood's first Western superstar, alludes to the author's fascination with the dashing clean-cut hero and a very likely inspiration for his famous James Bond character. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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