Literary Gent.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Literary autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.334. Publisher's russet red cloth hardcovers with gilt-lettered title label, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £7.95. Contents clean, no ink names. Some handling, minor signs of use. Memoirs of the literary agent David Higham who began his career at Curtis Brown and founded Pearn, Pollinger & Higham, renamed David Higham Associates in 1958. Among the talents he acted for were Muriel Spark, Arthur C. Clarke, Keith Waterhouse and the most commercially successful, James Bond creator Ian Fleming, whom Higham fondly referred to as the 'Playboy of the Western Morning News'. This copy from the collection of Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). Item #74462
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