James Bond First Editions

The Noel Coward Diaries.

MORLEY, Sheridan, and PAYN, Graham.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.698. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, typographic jacket priced £15.00. A clean, fine copy. Diaries of the flamboyant English playwright, edited by his partner Graham Payn and his biographer Sheridan Morley. Noel Coward was a close friend and neighbour of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, and was one of only two guests at Fleming's wedding. Coward was godfather to Fleming's son Caspar. With several mentions of Fleming within. From the Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #66142

Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.639.

Price: £38.00