IAN FLEMING

MOONRAKER. LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1955

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ("To | Eric | who kill🦂s me | with his kindness! | from | Ian") on front free endpaper, original black cloth, lettered in silver, DUST-JACKET, collector's black cloth folding case and brown morocco slipcase

AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY inscribed by the author to the lexicographer Eric Partridge (1894-1979) who used to draw extensively on the crime and detective fiction of the likes of Fleming and Chandler for his linguistic studies of slang and criminal dialects. Both Partridge and Fleming both later contributed to The Concise Encylopedia of Crime and Criminals (Andre Deutsch, 1961).

LITERATURE:

Gilbert A3a (1.2 - 1.3)

PROVENANCE:

From the Library of Eric Partridge