Monsieur Pamplemousse on Vacation

BOND, Michael

FROM MICHAEL BOND TO HIS LITERARY AGENT

BOND, Michael Monsieur Pamplemousse on Vacation

Hodder and Stoughton, 2002.

First edition. Black cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. Inscribed at the time of publication to Bond's agent, Harvey Unna, "For Harvey, With love and good wishes Michael, 16 March 2002". A fine book in a fine dustwrapper.

Harvey Unna, Bond's literary agent, was instrumental in finding a publisher for "A Bear Called Paddington" and is also the inspiration for one of the characters in the Paddington books. "I based Mr Gruber on my literary agent Harvey Unna who fled Germany before the war," Bond says. "He used to tell me that people never recognise themselves in books and he was right; he never realised he was Mr Gruber."
This story is the first in the series of Bond's comic detective stories, featuring M. Pamplemousse, a restaurant critic for France's most prestigious culinary guide book. The relationship between author and agent was a long standing and close one. A charming association copy.

From the collection of Harvey Unna.

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