A Collection of Biographical Material
[FLEMING, Peter, and JOHNSON, Celia]
A Collection of Biographical Material
Various
A collection of two books, a quire from ‘The Second Cuckoo’, clippings, a letter, a notecard and several publicity photographs:
HART-DAVIS, Duff. Peter Fleming. A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1974
8vo., burgundy boards, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; clipped photographic dustwrapper designed by M. Mohan, blue endpapers; upper edge stained black; pp. [xii], 13-419, [i]; with numerous photographs and four maps; bumped at corners and spine; a couple of small spots to the outer edge; near fine in very good wrapper a little crushed at extremities with some light brown spots.
First edition, with disbound pages from Graham Watson’s contribution to ‘Book Society’ (A. Deutsch, 1980), loosely inserted, along with a photocopied DNB article on Woodruff. Also inserted is a headed notecard showing publisher Duff Hart-Davis’s address, with the following penned note: “Very many thanks for the P.F. issue. I enjoyed it enormously, and couldn’t find a single error! How you must have ferreted! Best wishes, Duff.” The volume is dedicated to Celia, Fleming’s wife, ‘and the children’.
FLEMING, Kate. Celia Johnson. A Biography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991
8vo., burgundy boards, spine lettered in silver; photographic dustwrapper; pp. [v], vi-xi, [ii], 2-244, with 16 pages of illustrations; fine in near-fine jacket, one tiny nick to spine; yellow ‘serialised on Woman’s Hour’ sticker to rear flap.
First edition, with newspaper clipping on the subject of Celia Johnson loosely inserted.
An A4 letter from Duff Hart-Davis on his headed notepaper dated 8. VII. 98 ‘Dear John [Collins]…”
Disbound quire of ‘The Second Cuckoo’, featuring a printed letter from Mrs Peter Fleming.
Newspaper clipping ‘Wrong Mrs Fleming identified in story’
Black and white photograph of Celia Johnson in Noel Coward’s ‘This Happy Breed’, with printed article from Two Cities Films Ltd, compliments of Margaret Marshall Denham
The same article with a portrait photograph of Celia Johnson
A clipped photograph by Andre Deutsch.
[FLEMING, Peter, and JOHNSON, Celia]
A Collection of Biographical Material
Various
A collection of two books, a quire from ‘The Second Cuckoo’, clippings, a letter, a notecard and several publicity photographs:
HART-DAVIS, Duff. Peter Fleming. A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1974
8vo., burgundy boards, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; clipped photographic dustwrapper designed by M. Mohan, blue endpapers; upper edge stained black; pp. [xii], 13-419, [i]; with numerous photographs and four maps; bumped at corners and spine; a couple of small spots to the outer edge; near fine in very good wrapper a little crushed at extremities with some light brown spots.
First edition, with disbound pages from Graham Watson’s contribution to ‘Book Society’ (A. Deutsch, 1980), loosely inserted, along with a photocopied DNB article on Woodruff. Also inserted is a headed notecard showing publisher Duff Hart-Davis’s address, with the following penned note: “Very many thanks for the P.F. issue. I enjoyed it enormously, and couldn’t find a single error! How you must have ferreted! Best wishes, Duff.” The volume is dedicated to Celia, Fleming’s wife, ‘and the children’.
FLEMING, Kate. Celia Johnson. A Biography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991
8vo., burgundy boards, spine lettered in silver; photographic dustwrapper; pp. [v], vi-xi, [ii], 2-244, with 16 pages of illustrations; fine in near-fine jacket, one tiny nick to spine; yellow ‘serialised on Woman’s Hour’ sticker to rear flap.
First edition, with newspaper clipping on the subject of Celia Johnson loosely inserted.
An A4 letter from Duff Hart-Davis on his headed notepaper dated 8. VII. 98 ‘Dear John [Collins]…”
Disbound quire of ‘The Second Cuckoo’, featuring a printed letter from Mrs Peter Fleming.
Newspaper clipping ‘Wrong Mrs Fleming identified in story’
Black and white photograph of Celia Johnson in Noel Coward’s ‘This Happy Breed’, with printed article from Two Cities Films Ltd, compliments of Margaret Marshall Denham
The same article with a portrait photograph of Celia Johnson
A clipped photograph by Andre Deutsch.
[FLEMING, Peter, and JOHNSON, Celia]
A Collection of Biographical Material
Various
A collection of two books, a quire from ‘The Second Cuckoo’, clippings, a letter, a notecard and several publicity photographs:
HART-DAVIS, Duff. Peter Fleming. A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1974
8vo., burgundy boards, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine with publisher’s device to foot; clipped photographic dustwrapper designed by M. Mohan, blue endpapers; upper edge stained black; pp. [xii], 13-419, [i]; with numerous photographs and four maps; bumped at corners and spine; a couple of small spots to the outer edge; near fine in very good wrapper a little crushed at extremities with some light brown spots.
First edition, with disbound pages from Graham Watson’s contribution to ‘Book Society’ (A. Deutsch, 1980), loosely inserted, along with a photocopied DNB article on Woodruff. Also inserted is a headed notecard showing publisher Duff Hart-Davis’s address, with the following penned note: “Very many thanks for the P.F. issue. I enjoyed it enormously, and couldn’t find a single error! How you must have ferreted! Best wishes, Duff.” The volume is dedicated to Celia, Fleming’s wife, ‘and the children’.
FLEMING, Kate. Celia Johnson. A Biography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991
8vo., burgundy boards, spine lettered in silver; photographic dustwrapper; pp. [v], vi-xi, [ii], 2-244, with 16 pages of illustrations; fine in near-fine jacket, one tiny nick to spine; yellow ‘serialised on Woman’s Hour’ sticker to rear flap.
First edition, with newspaper clipping on the subject of Celia Johnson loosely inserted.
An A4 letter from Duff Hart-Davis on his headed notepaper dated 8. VII. 98 ‘Dear John [Collins]…”
Disbound quire of ‘The Second Cuckoo’, featuring a printed letter from Mrs Peter Fleming.
Newspaper clipping ‘Wrong Mrs Fleming identified in story’
Black and white photograph of Celia Johnson in Noel Coward’s ‘This Happy Breed’, with printed article from Two Cities Films Ltd, compliments of Margaret Marshall Denham
The same article with a portrait photograph of Celia Johnson
A clipped photograph by Andre Deutsch.