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Auction archive: Lot number 92

William Plomer

Auction #75
6 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$80
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 92

William Plomer

Auction #75
6 Jun 2019
Estimate
US$80
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

William Plomer
The Fivefold Screen ( #2 of a limited signed edition)
Published: The Hogarth Press, London, 1932
Edition: First Edition
Publisher's black cloth hardcover with some rubbing on the spine edges. Internally clean. This copy is #2 of a signed and limited first edition of 450 copies. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf - the famous modernist author who started the Hogarth Press along with her husband. William Plomer, along with Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post, started the 'Voorslag' magazine in the early 1920's, which was a short-lived and controversial literary magazine for its time. Plomer, who was South African born, is also famous for being the man who discovered James Bond author Ian Fleming On the dedication page of the novel Goldfinger, Fleming writes "To my gentle reader William Plomer". Binding Condition: Very Good Overall Condition: Very Good

Auction archive: Lot number 92
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Clarke's Africana & Rare Books Paul Mills
P.O. Box 186
7848 Constantia
South Africa
support@antiquarianauctions.com
+27 (0)21-794-0600
Beschreibung:

William Plomer
The Fivefold Screen ( #2 of a limited signed edition)
Published: The Hogarth Press, London, 1932
Edition: First Edition
Publisher's black cloth hardcover with some rubbing on the spine edges. Internally clean. This copy is #2 of a signed and limited first edition of 450 copies. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf - the famous modernist author who started the Hogarth Press along with her husband. William Plomer, along with Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post, started the 'Voorslag' magazine in the early 1920's, which was a short-lived and controversial literary magazine for its time. Plomer, who was South African born, is also famous for being the man who discovered James Bond author Ian Fleming On the dedication page of the novel Goldfinger, Fleming writes "To my gentle reader William Plomer". Binding Condition: Very Good Overall Condition: Very Good

Auction archive: Lot number 92
Auction:
Datum:
6 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Clarke's Africana & Rare Books Paul Mills
P.O. Box 186
7848 Constantia
South Africa
support@antiquarianauctions.com
+27 (0)21-794-0600

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