Peter FLEMING / Variety Essays Sketches and Stories Signed 1st Edition

Essays Sketches and Stories Publication: London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. Description: [Journalism/Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION.

Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp. Publisher's hardback cloth binding.

With Fleming's pencilled autograph and signature latin'scripsit' ['He wrote it'] to flyleaf. Contents clean, some light age-related spotting to edges, binding gently handled. Decorative bookseller ticket to rear [French bookstore, Peiping, China].

A very good copy of the author's scarce third book. Articles and short stories, some published in The Spectator and The Bystander. Robert Peter Fleming OBE was a British adventurer and travel writer, brother of novelist Ian Fleming, and unofficial editor of his James Bond books. He has often been cited as a model for the debonair secret service agent created by his brother. The present copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012, published by Peter Fleming's daughter Kate Grimond) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. See Campbell; Ian Fleming: A Catalogue of a Collection [22].

Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971. As part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells. Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.

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