Fleming, Ian DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER final typescript prepared by Fleming's secretary Ulrica Knowles, checked by the publisher's reader and by the author, with autograph revisions to almost every page, mostly in blue ballpoint but some in pencil, these mostly having the effect of tightening the text through deletions or changes to single words, with more extensive changes of one or more full sentences to at least eight pages (pp. 23, 79, 111, 119, 120, 194, 221, 263 verso), with the hoodlum 'Dolly' Kidd here called 'Boofy' Gore throughout (this name being changed following the objection of Fleming's former schoolfriend from whom the name was taken), notes on title page "to be returned to author for final revision" (crossed through), "?Libel" (crossed through), notes to the printer (crossed through), and a list of other books in series, 277 pages (265 numbered pages, 11 "a" numbers, and two preliminaries), 4to (254 x 204mm), 1955 or 1956, in an inscrew ringbinder in a collector's folding box, lacking the penultimate leaf (p.264), frayed at punch holes, last leaf frayed with loss
Fleming, Ian DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER final typescript prepared by Fleming's secretary Ulrica Knowles, checked by the publisher's reader and by the author, with autograph revisions to almost every page, mostly in blue ballpoint but some in pencil, these mostly having the effect of tightening the text through deletions or changes to single words, with more extensive changes of one or more full sentences to at least eight pages (pp. 23, 79, 111, 119, 120, 194, 221, 263 verso), with the hoodlum 'Dolly' Kidd here called 'Boofy' Gore throughout (this name being changed following the objection of Fleming's former schoolfriend from whom the name was taken), notes on title page "to be returned to author for final revision" (crossed through), "?Libel" (crossed through), notes to the printer (crossed through), and a list of other books in series, 277 pages (265 numbered pages, 11 "a" numbers, and two preliminaries), 4to (254 x 204mm), 1955 or 1956, in an inscrew ringbinder in a collector's folding box, lacking the penultimate leaf (p.264), frayed at punch holes, last leaf frayed with loss
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