[IAN FLEMING]--CHRISTOPHER MARSDEN PALMYRA OF THE NORTH. THE FIRST DAYS OF ST. PETERSBURG. WITH A PREFACE BY SACHEVERELL SITWELL. LONDON: FABER AND FABER, 1942 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY FLEMING TO HIS MISTRESS CLARE BLANSHARD (“C. | Read every word. | F.”) on front free endpaper, ALSO SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, AND ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED (“by Clare Blanshard’s flattered colleague | Christopher Marsden April 1947”) on half-title, original purple cloth, lettered in silver, top edge orange, collector’s red cloth folding box In 1944 Fleming flew to the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon to visit friend Alan Hillgarth, Chief British Naval Intelligence Eastern Theatre. His trusted Wren assistant was Clare Blanshard. On meeting Fleming, Clare wrote to her brother “a beauteous being has swum into my ken… and I like him very much indeed”. The two began an affair and travelled to Australia soon after. After the war she moved to New York where she, like Fleming, worked for the Kemsley Group. Blanshard was one of Fleming’s early readers of Casino Royale in manuscript and the two would remain friends. It appears that Blanshard followed Fleming’s instructions in his inscription for her close reading of the text resulted in her attempt to construct a family tree of the Imperial Russian family on the rear fixed endpaper.Condition ReportOccasional spotting, bookseller's stamp (dated January 1945), spine slightly skewed and dull, corners rubbed, hinges cracking. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
[IAN FLEMING]--CHRISTOPHER MARSDEN PALMYRA OF THE NORTH. THE FIRST DAYS OF ST. PETERSBURG. WITH A PREFACE BY SACHEVERELL SITWELL. LONDON: FABER AND FABER, 1942 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY FLEMING TO HIS MISTRESS CLARE BLANSHARD (“C. | Read every word. | F.”) on front free endpaper, ALSO SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, AND ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED (“by Clare Blanshard’s flattered colleague | Christopher Marsden April 1947”) on half-title, original purple cloth, lettered in silver, top edge orange, collector’s red cloth folding box In 1944 Fleming flew to the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon to visit friend Alan Hillgarth, Chief British Naval Intelligence Eastern Theatre. His trusted Wren assistant was Clare Blanshard. On meeting Fleming, Clare wrote to her brother “a beauteous being has swum into my ken… and I like him very much indeed”. The two began an affair and travelled to Australia soon after. After the war she moved to New York where she, like Fleming, worked for the Kemsley Group. Blanshard was one of Fleming’s early readers of Casino Royale in manuscript and the two would remain friends. It appears that Blanshard followed Fleming’s instructions in his inscription for her close reading of the text resulted in her attempt to construct a family tree of the Imperial Russian family on the rear fixed endpaper.Condition ReportOccasional spotting, bookseller's stamp (dated January 1945), spine slightly skewed and dull, corners rubbed, hinges cracking. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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