phyllis fleming editor (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No dustjacket as issued. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. First Edition. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.318. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced 18s. A clean ex-library copy with one stamp to endpaper, shelf number written to copyright page, otherwise rather lightly used, jacket with a couple of neat tears at crown. Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963), novelist and story writer, educator and mentor to Ian Fleming, who attended her private school in school in Kitzbühel, learning French, German and Russian. Her husband Ernan Forbes Dennis, was a retired MI-6 agent. Fleming's adventures in the Austrian Alps are the genesis of James Bond, and it was here that he wrote his first thriller story. Gilbert, p.635.

Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. First Edition. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.318. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced 18s. Minor spots to edges, jacket lightly rubbed. Near fine. A collection of thrilling short stories. Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963), novelist and story writer, educator and mentor to Ian Fleming, who attended her private school in school in Kitzbühel, learning French, German and Russian. Her husband Ernan Forbes Dennis, was a retired MI-6 agent. Fleming's adventures in the Austrian Alps are the genesis of James Bond, and it was here that he wrote his first thriller story. This copy is from the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, p.635.