Ena Limebeer | To A Proud Phantom, 1923, Ian Fleming's personal copy

Ena Limebeer

To a Proud Phantom. Leonard & Virginia Woolf; The Hogarth Press, 1923

IAN FLEMING'S PERSONAL COPY, SIGNED TO THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: "I.L. Fleming | Chelsea | 1927", one of 250 copies hand-printed by the Woolfs, 8vo, original marbled boards, paper label to upper board, leaves uncut

Ena Limebeer (1897-1984) was a schoolgirl poet of The Great War. This collection of rather dark verse likely appealed to Ian Fleming's sense of the macabre.

PROVENANCE:

Bloomsbury Auctions, 15 September 1994, lot 324

LITERATURE:

Woolmer 35