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'Codebreakers'
[No place], [1977] 2019. [Ian Fleming / Bondiana] Illustrated digital colour print from an original painting by Richard Delaporte Hearn after 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977, Dir. Lewis Gilbert). Copyright remains with the artist. Presented in a simple, elegant card mount, ready for framing. Approximate total dimensions 40 x...... More
'Computer Check'
[No place], [2006] 2016. [Ian Fleming / Bondiana] Illustrated digital colour print from an original painting by Richard Delaporte Hearn after 'Casino Royale' (2006, Dir. Martin Campbell). Copyright remains with the artist. Presented in a simple, elegant card mount, ready for framing. Approximate total dimensions 40 x 30cm. Fine condition..... More
'Get On The Train'
[No place], [2012] 2016. [Ian Fleming / Bondiana] Illustrated digital colour print from an original painting by Richard Delaporte Hearn after 'Skyfall' (2012, Dir. Sam Mendes). Copyright remains with the artist. Presented in a simple, elegant card mount, ready for framing. Approximate total dimensions 40 x 30cm. Fine condition, SIGNED..... More
'Licence to Travel'. A James Bond / Ian Fleming still-life.
[No place], 2016. [Ian Fleming / Bondiana] Illustrated digital colour print from an original painting of James Bond's travel reading, articles and effects, by Richard Delaporte Hearn. Copyright remains with the artist. Presented in a simple, elegant card mount, ready for framing. Approximate total dimensions 28 x 36cm. Fine condition..... More
'Universal Exports'
[No place], [1969] 2011. [Ian Fleming / Bondiana] Illustrated digital colour print from an original painting by Richard Delaporte Hearn after 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969, Dir. Peter Hunt). Copyright remains with the artist. Presented in a simple, elegant card mount, ready for framing. Approximate total dimensions 40 x...... More
Life's Not a Rehearsal. The Autobiography of Margaret Durdant-Hollamby, MBE, Founder of the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks.
Sevenoaks: Durdant-Hollamby, 1998. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 239 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and architect's drawings to endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... More
The Identity of Yeats.
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1954. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 343; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper with printed price of 23s to flap. Minor toning to textblock, ownership inscription to flyleaf, with loose postcard to owner. Some wear around jacket edges..... More
Gozo: Island of Oblivion. A Graphic Literary Itinerary.
Melfi: Edizioni Libria, 1997. [Maltese Sketches and Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 28cm), pp.133 [7]. A collection of sketches of buildings on Gozo, accompanied by various appropriate quotations, and by eclogues by John Cremona. Publisher's cream soft covers with flaps, priced at 50,000 lire. Spine and part of rear..... More
Ian Fleming's Life Story: The Man With The Golden Pen, appearing in Woman's Mirror (two issues, extracted complete text).
London: Fleetway Publications, [1966]. [Literary Biography] Loose leaves, extracted from the publication, 18pp., 22pp., stapled to top left. Some browning, minor edge wear. Signature and pencil note of bibliographer Jon Gilbert. This is a serialisation of Gant's biography of Fleming, in two magazine appearances [April 23rd 1966 & April 30th..... More
Ian Fleming: The Fantastic 007 Man.
New York: Lancer Books, 1966. [Biography] FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A paperback original. pp.174; [2], advertisements. Publishers card covers with photographic illustrations to upper and lower panel, all edges tinted purple. Discreet ink stamp. Text block gently toned as expected. Covers fresh and unworn (usually quite rubbed). An unusually..... More
Aston Martin Heritage.
London: Osprey Automotive, 1991. [Motoring] Quarto (23 x 21cm), pp.128, illustrated throughout. Publisher's glossy photographic covers. Fine. A history of the Aston Martin marque. Includes a photo of the AMV8 adapted for use in 'The Living Daylights' (1987). From the comprehensive James Bond archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled ownership..... More
Goldfinger artwork. An original full-colour proof of the front cover illustration for the 1959 novel.
Jonathan Cape, 1959]. Artwork measuring 406 x 508 mm. Matted within mountboard measuring 571 x 660 mm. In fine condition. Richard Chopping's personal, signed copy of the final proof sheet artwork, being the glorious full-sized image taken from the original painting, before the spine lettering and publisher's imprint were added..... More
Ian Fleming: The Man With The Golden Pen. A Life by Richard Gant [3 copies].
UK: Mayflower-Dell, April 1966. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, together with the second and third printings. A paperback original. Publishers card covers with photographic illustrations to upper and lower panel. Usual toning to textblocks, softcovers very lightly handled. All three are virtually fine. An elusive early biography of James Bond..... More
Ian Fleming: The Man With The Golden Pen. A Life by Richard Gant.
UK: Mayflower-Dell, April 1966. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A paperback original. Publishers card covers with photographic illustrations to upper and lower panel. Usual toning to textblock, softcovers lightly handled. Very good. An elusive early biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, published some six months before John Pearson's 'Life..... More
Ian Fleming: The Man With The Golden Pen. A Life by Richard Gant.
UK: Mayflower-Dell, April 1966. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A paperback original (18 x 11cm), pp.172 [4]. Publishers card covers with photographic illustrations to upper and lower panel. Usual toning to textblock otherwise a clean, fine copy. An elusive early biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, published some six..... More
Independence Day.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. [Modern Literature] SIGNED ADVANCE REVIEW COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 451 [5]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's soft covers illustrated by Carol Devine Carson. Some light marks and bumping to edges. Near fine. A sequel to..... More
Brewster's Millions
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[x]; 325; [3], blank; [1], imprint; [3], blank. Elegantly bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco with gilt ruling and raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Discreet initials stamped to third blank..... More
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xlviii; 872 [2]. With a chronology, genealogical tables, six coloured maps, and dates printed to margins. Contemporary navy half morocco with gilt titles to spine, blue cloth over boards, and the gilt crest of King..... More
An Incident of African History [and] M.I. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volumes XIII and XIV.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1900 to November 1901. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. In two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.vi; 754; pp.vi; 714. With frequent photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and dark brown titles and decoration to spines and upper boards. Blue ink ownership inscription to..... More
The Hard Sell.
London: Cassell, 1965. [International airline mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.188. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, with illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. Some spotting, owner's surname to f.e.p., jacket is near fine. The rear panel carries reviews for the author's previous thriller, likened to James Bond; "the..... More
The Telemann Touch.
London: Cassell, 1958. [International intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.206; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt, with photographic dust-jacket priced at 13/6. Slightly dusty, in similar wrapper showing a little edge wear. Near fine. The rear panel carries reviews for the author's previous thriller, likened to..... More
Seven Years in Tibet.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. [Central Asian Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH (without 'The Book Society' to imprint). Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 288. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a double-page sketch-map, and a colour photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red..... More
Geyserland. Empiricisms In Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded by the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington, DC: printed for R. Hatfield, 1908. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.451 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with titles in gilt and decoration in green to spine and upper. Top edge gilt. Lacks front free endpaper. Edges toned, with a little spotting to frontispiece and..... More
Q. Horatius Flaccus Ex Recensione et cum Notis atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii.
Amsterdam: Rod. and Jacob. Wetstenios and Guil. Smith, 1728. [Classics] FINE PRIZE BINDING, THIRD EDITION THUS. Quarto (25 x 22cm), pp.[28] 717; [1] 239 [3]. All text in Latin. With a copper engraved frontispiece, and followed by 'Index in Q. Horatium Flaccum, olim quidem collectus a Thoma Tretero, deinde omnibus..... More
A High Wind In Jamaica, within Life And Letters, Vol 3, No.15.
London: Printed by Curwen and Sons, August 1929. Historical Fiction. First appearance in print of this novel by Richard Hughes; a slightly abridged version in this monthly journal edited by Desmond McCarthy. Magazine format in original printed softcovers. Minor spine roll, discreet owner name; a very good copy indeed. The..... More