Address Given at the Memorial Service for Ian Fleming. St Bartholomew the Great. [Together with:] -- "Ian Fleming Remembered", Encounter, Vol. 24, No. 1, London, January 1965.

FLEMING, Ian - PLOMER, William.

Published by Westerham: Privately printed at the Westerham Press, September 15th 1964

About this Item

First edition, one of 50 hardback copies, of Plomer's tribute to his late friend. This copy is accompanied by a paperback issue of the same, along with Plomer's article "Ian Fleming Remembered" in Encounter magazine. A letter from Plomer's secretary, responding to an unrelated invitation, is loosely inserted. Plomer, whose friendship with Fleming began in 1929, was a reader at Jonathan Cape and was instrumental in getting published Casino Royal (1953). He "read and advised on each successive Fleming manuscript; Plomer was, unoficially, Ian Fleming's Editor-in-Chief" (Gilbert, p. 650). Fleming dedicated Goldfinger (1959): "To my gentle reader William Plomer". Gilbert, pp. 595-6. Together, 3 items in octavo: 2 copies of Address (12 pp.), in hardback and paperback issues with paper spine label, the latter with black dust jacket, both with original glassine jackets; Encounter magazine in original wrappers. All housed in custom black folder with the bibliographer Jon Gilbert's bookplate. Fine copies.

Seller Inventory # 192545

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Address Given at the Memorial Service for Ian Fleming. St Bartholomew the Great. [Together with:] -- "Ian Fleming Remembered", Encounter, Vol. 24, No. 1, London, January 1965.
• Publisher: Westerham: Privately printed at the Westerham Press, September 15th 1964
• Edition: 1st Edition