FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964) . Thrilling Cities. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First edition, first impression, first state, presentation copy inscribed by Fleming to Noël Coward ‘Noël / for your bluest pencil / Love / Ian .’ First serialized in The Sunday Times , the thirteen chapters of Fleming’s travels to locations such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Las Vegas, New York, Geneva and Monte Carlo were intended to excite a reader’s desire for modern adventure. In his introduction, Fleming writes: ‘The essays entertained, and sometimes scandalized, the readers of the Sunday Times , and the editorial blue pencil scored through many a passage which has now been impurgated (if that is the opposite of expurgated) in the present text’ (p.7). Gilbert A16a (1.1). Octavo (222 x 156mm). Erratum slip tipped in at p.223. Original cloth-backed boards, spine gilt, original dust-jacket with the laminate covering the entire width of the rear flap (minor nicks to head of spine panel). Provenance : Noël Coward (1899-1973; author’s presentation inscription, bookplate).
FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964) . Thrilling Cities. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First edition, first impression, first state, presentation copy inscribed by Fleming to Noël Coward ‘Noël / for your bluest pencil / Love / Ian .’ First serialized in The Sunday Times , the thirteen chapters of Fleming’s travels to locations such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Las Vegas, New York, Geneva and Monte Carlo were intended to excite a reader’s desire for modern adventure. In his introduction, Fleming writes: ‘The essays entertained, and sometimes scandalized, the readers of the Sunday Times , and the editorial blue pencil scored through many a passage which has now been impurgated (if that is the opposite of expurgated) in the present text’ (p.7). Gilbert A16a (1.1). Octavo (222 x 156mm). Erratum slip tipped in at p.223. Original cloth-backed boards, spine gilt, original dust-jacket with the laminate covering the entire width of the rear flap (minor nicks to head of spine panel). Provenance : Noël Coward (1899-1973; author’s presentation inscription, bookplate).
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