Biographies and Reference
'Ian Fleming Remembered' appearing in 'Encounter' magazine, January 1965.
London: 25 Haymarket, 1965. [Literary journal] Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.96. Original issue magazine format, perfect bound with pictorial covers, priced at 4 shillings / 75 cents. Spine sunned else a particularly clean, fresh copy. Includes a tribute to Ian Fleming, written by his friend and literary advisor William Plomer..... More
Ian Fleming 28th May 1908 - 12th August 1964. An Address Given at the Memorial Service.
Westerham Press, Privately Printed, 1964. [Tribute] FIRST EDITION, the limited hardcover copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.10 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with printed title label to upper. With the original glassine jacket. A fine copy of the book, with a very good example of the fragile wrapper (some nicks and..... More
The Autobiography of William Plomer.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[ii]; 455; [1], blank. Illustrated with photographic plates. Publisher's grey cloth, tan endpapers, top edge red, typographic dust-jacket priced £7.50. Sunned to top edge, some minor handling; very good indeed. William Plomer CBE, was a close friend of..... More
William Plomer At Home. Memoirs.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. [Literary autobiography] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.253; [3], blank. Publisher's grey cloth blocked in purple, typographic dust-jacket priced 16s. Contents clean, vintage bookplate with wood cut illustration to pastedown, jacket sunned to spine else near fine. William Plomer CBE, was a close..... More
William Plomer A Biography.
Oxford: OUP, 1989. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.397; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth, illustrated dust-jacket priced £25. A clean, fine copy. William Plomer CBE, was a close friend of Ian Fleming, his trusted Editor-in-chief, the dedicatee of the novel Goldfinger, and the very first..... More