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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. This is number three hundred and three of one thousand large paper copies. Octavo. 66pp. Portrait frontispiece. Top page corners lightly dampstained, boards moderately soiled, corners worn, a good only copy. Publisher's presentation copy, Inscribed of Dana Estes on front board.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This is number three hundred and seventy-nine of one thousand large paper copies. Octavo. 66pp. Portrait frontis. Boards lightly soiled, corners worn, else very good. Publisher's presentation copy, with inscription of Dana Estes on front board.

First Edition. [History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Large octavo (22 x 15 x 9cm). Handsomely bound in deep red half morocco, gilt, with gilt initials 'C.V.C.' to front cover. Formerly the property of Cecile Victoria, Lady Cunliffe CBE (née Sackville-West), later ownership of Hilary Bray (dated 1956). With author's signed inscription to second blank; With the best wishes of the author / J. W. Fortescue [underlined] / 1900. Some foxing, bindings a little rubbed. An attractive, very good pair. Hilary Bray (died ca.1990), was a school friend, golfing partner and lifelong companion of writer Ian Fleming. His name, elevated to Sir Hilary Bray, Baronet, was used as an alias of James Bond in the novel On Her Majesty's secret Service (1963), which was also dedicated to him. The Honourable Lady Cunliffe (1865-1955), President of the Girls' Friendly Society, was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1920. Her niece, author Vita Sackville-West, was a Fleming family friend who contributed a poem to Ian Fleming's schoolboy publication 'The Wyvern' magazine (1925). Signed.