Ian Fleming | Diamonds Are Forever, 1956, association copy with bookplate of Sefton Delmer [with:] signed letter and associated typescript

Ian Fleming

Diamonds Are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956

8vo, FIRST EDITION, Sefton Delmer's copy with his bookplate, collector's black cloth clamshell box

[with:]

Ian Fleming

Typed letter signed, to Peggy, Mrs Sefton Selmer, referring to their son Felix and Fleming's son Caspar, "Caspar goes to school in September. He is a monster but a very attractive one"

[and:]

A typed extract regarding Fleming's liking for the name Felix, recommending it for Delmer's son, and following his own advice in the creation of Felix Leiter, with manuscript drawing of Fleming at his typewriter, on headed paper with Sefton Delmer's address

Denis Sefton Delmer was a close friend of Ian Fleming, a colleague in Naval Intelligence and at the newspaper. The pair together on secret operations during the war. As an S.O.E. agent, Delmer conducted 'Black Propaganda' broadcasts to Nazi Germany. Delmer appears in Diamonds Are Forever as the boyfriend of James Bond's secretary Lil.