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VARIOUS AUTHORS. The Seven Deadly Sins. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962.
First edition, first impression, first issue, presentation copy inscribed by Fleming to Noël Coward: ‘To Noël, / Who embodies the / whole Grand Slam / of them – redoubled. / from / his persevering disciple / Ian.’ Fleming conceived the idea for a series of essays on the seven deadly sins while on the editorial board of The Sunday Times. The essays, which were provided by Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connolly, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Sykes and W. H. Auden, are preceded by a foreword by Fleming himself. Gilbert B3 (1.1).
Octavo (215 x 137mm). Illustrations to title and before each chapter opening reproducing 15th-century woodcut depictions of the seven deadly sins. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original dust-jacket (dust-jacket slightly darkened, two minor tears at top edge of front panel). Provenance: Noël Coward (1899-1973; presentation inscription from Fleming, bookplate).
First edition, first impression, first issue, presentation copy inscribed by Fleming to Noël Coward: ‘To Noël, / Who embodies the / whole Grand Slam / of them – redoubled. / from / his persevering disciple / Ian.’ Fleming conceived the idea for a series of essays on the seven deadly sins while on the editorial board of The Sunday Times. The essays, which were provided by Angus Wilson, Edith Sitwell, Cyril Connolly, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Sykes and W. H. Auden, are preceded by a foreword by Fleming himself. Gilbert B3 (1.1).
Octavo (215 x 137mm). Illustrations to title and before each chapter opening reproducing 15th-century woodcut depictions of the seven deadly sins. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original dust-jacket (dust-jacket slightly darkened, two minor tears at top edge of front panel). Provenance: Noël Coward (1899-1973; presentation inscription from Fleming, bookplate).
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