Ian Fleming | For Your Eyes Only, 1960, first edition, Fleming's literary advisor's copy

Ian Fleming

For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, 1960

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, binding A, DUST-JACKET, presentation inscription by William Plomer ("A. Franklyn from W. Plomer April 5 1960"), with an obituary of William Plomer loosely inserted, collector's black cloth clamshell box, minor spotting to preliminary leaves, some spotting to jacket and minor wear at extremities

A PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY.

William Plomer was a writer, editor and poet, and a trusted companion of Ian Fleming since 1929, when they met at a literary party at Cheyne Walk. A wartime colleague in NI, Plomer was later a publisher's reader at Jonathan Cape. He was instrumental in getting Casino Royale published and took an active part reading and commenting on each successive Bond typescript. Plomer was, unofficially, Fleming's editor-in-chief. The novel Goldfinger is dedicated 'To my gentle reader William Plomer'. Ann Fleming noted that Plomer was one of the few people around whom Ian could relax.