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 issue, ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.10 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with printed title label to upper. This copy coming from the library of Fleming's close friend Denis Hamilton with a bookplate to that effect produced by bibliographer Jon Gilbert who purchased some of his collection at auction. Contents and exterior clean, minor rippling to pastedown. The book-form printing of the address given at Fleming's memorial, 15th September 1964, the hardcover of which comprises just 50 copies. The author, William Plomer, was a close friend of Fleming, his trusted Editor-in-chief, the dedicatee of the novel Goldfinger, and the very first reader of the James Bond debut 'Casino Royale'. An important association; Sir Charles Denis 'C.D.' Hamilton (1918-88), decorated veteran of the second world war was 'an outstanding natural newspaperman', a close friend of Ian Fleming and a fellow board member at the Kemsley News Group; Fleming was employed as Foreign Manager and Hamilton was the editor-in-chief of their flagship Sunday Times, and later chairman of the organisation. As a columnist, much of Fleming's journalism was published in Hamilton's Sunday Times; the 1962 inaugural issue of the ST Magazine led with the James Bond novella The Living Daylights, and Hamilton championed Fleming's Thrilling Cities travel articles, being the dedicatee of the book-form edition. Hamilton received a signed first edition of every possible Bond novel ('Golden Gun' and 'Octopussy' being posthumous); his collection was sold in London in 2012. Item #75031
Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.596. Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions, 15th May 2012.
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