(Typography, Printing, Illustration, Early Ian Fleming in Pr...

Hammer

£260

(Typography, Printing, Illustration, Early Ian Fleming in Print.), 'Alphabet & Image', Shenval Press, 1946-1948, Issues One to Eight (all published, complete set), content/illustrations including Edward Bawden, Type Designs of Eric Gill, Stanley Morison, Barnett Freedman, Lynton Lamb, Reynolds Stone, Claude Lovat Fraser, Golden Cockerel Press, Robert Gibbings, John Farleigh, Ruari McLean, Mervyn Peake, Rex Whistler, Hugh Casson, Edward Wadsworth etc, original wraps (first four issues plastic spiral bound as issued). Three loose inserts (Ian Fleming interest, Stop Press notices, one each in Numbers Five, Seven and Eight); coloured order form, unused, in Number One; used order form - torn-off half - in Number Six. Ian Fleming proposed the terms of the first competition to be run by this journal, to design the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet. Terms were detailed in Stop Press No.1, a four-page insert to Magazine No 5. "All submissions to be received by 15th November 1947, with Mr. Fleming to be the sole judge. The prize is a book token of five guineas". A very early literary endeavour by the future James Bond novelist. (8)