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London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2008. [Hollywood memoir] The UK COLLECTOR'S EDITION, One of 1000 copies in the publisher's de luxe cloth, in matching slipcase. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo, pp.336. Black cloth blocked in silver. Titled 'Limited Edition' on half title, not to be confused with the trade or American..... More
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2014. [Film Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.272. Handsomely bound in half brown oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, matching cloth sides. Autographed to the half title. With the dust-jacket bound in at the rear, featuring a relaxed Roger Moore..... More
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2008. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.336, with two suites of photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket featuring the famous Terry O'Neill portrait of a relaxed Roger Moore on location filming Live and Let Die, priced at..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1973. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.186, in pictorial card wrappers. Roger Moore's own account of filming 'Live and Let Die', with exclusive colour photographs by Luisa Moore and stills from the film. A paperback original (UK title: Roger Moore as James Bond 007); a...... More
London: Souvenir Press, 1973. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254. Publisher's cyan cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £2.20. Ownership sticker to top left of front pastedown. Very lightly sunned to jacket spine. Near fine. The sixth full-length Modesty Blaise thriller, developed..... More
London: Boxtree Limited, 1995. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Glossy photo-documentary in a large softcover format; A paperback original. (28 x 2cm), pp.128. Illustrated throughout with black and white and colour stills, with accompanying text. An absolutely fine/as new copy. More
New York, NY: William Morrow, 1973. [Fictional biography] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 317 [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth-backed boards, red endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper priced at $7.95. Contents clean, edges a little spotted, short tear to inside joint, jacket is fine. Journalist John Pearson was employed by..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1965. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION COLLECTION, comprising (1) BRITISH UNCORRECTED PROOF, (2) hardback first issue, (3) hardback second issue with publisher's printed statement inserted and revised jacket ink, and (4) hardback first US McGraw-Hill edition, also with publisher's statement. Octavos, proof copy in..... More
n.p. [1992]. Double-bill style artwork, portrait format, created for the inaugural James Bond 007 Fan Club convention at the National Film Theatre, 22nd November 1992. SIGNED by three of the guests of honour. This unusual items was laminated and produced as place settings. In elegant acid-neutral mount, glaze, and bespoke..... More
Holyoake, MA: Davis Publications, September 1969. [James Bond] Original issue magazine format (20 x 14cm), pp.162, with colour covers. Some expected toning to cheap paper but altogether a crisp, near fine copy. This issue contains the James Bond short story 'The Property of a Lady' plus mysteries by Anthony Gilbert..... More
Manchester: Published by World Distributors [by arrangement with Eon Productions / Glidrose Publications], 1968. [Film annual] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 21cm), pp.93 (the pagination, as with all copies, is awry, beginning at p.4). Publisher's glossy boards without jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout including several colour photographs..... More
Cranbury, NJ: A.S. Barnes and Co, 1972. [Bond on film] FIRST US EDITION, being published in a larger format than the UK equivalent. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.176. Illustrated throughout with great stills, mostly provided by United Artists. Publisher's grey hardcovers cloth, titles in black to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket with..... More
New York, NY: Harry N Abrahams, 2002. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 27cm), pp.320. Bound in black cloth boards stamped in gilt with the 007 device to upper, and black endpapers. With the glossy gold pictorial dust-jacket priced at $49.95. Includes a foreword by the James Bond film..... More
Royal Tunbridge Wells: Adrian Harrington Ltd., 2020. [Literary and film Reference] 'RED' edition, SIGNED by the author. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.292, printed on Munken Lynx paper. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with a colour frontispiece and 32 colour plates. Bound in full graphite buckram, blocked in two-colour metallic..... More
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2012. [James Bond Film Reference] Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.224. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, with colour limitation leaf inserted between flyeaf and half-title stating "This Limited Edition of Bond on Bond has been personally signed by Sir Roger Moore KBE". Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's black cloth..... More
USA: Time Life Books, 2012. [Film reference] FIRST EDITION. Square quarto (26 x 26cm), pp.176. Colour photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, photographic endpapers featuring 'golden girl' Shirley Eaton, photographic dust-wrapper priced at $27.95. A fine, unused copy. A fine photographic history of the cinematic Bond, published on..... More
London: Evans Mitchell Books, 2012. [James Bond Film Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.185 [7]. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photographs by Terry O'Neill. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, gold endpapers, photographic dust-jacket, priced at £29.95. A fine, as-new copy. More
London: Allen Lane, 2000. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.150. With black and white photographs. Publisher's grey cloth hardback blocked in silver to spine, blind-stamped '007' motif to front cover, photographic dust-jacket priced at £9.99 / $24.99 (Canada). A fine copy. Editor Simon Winder was the senior executive..... More
UK: Mervyn Brodie and Associates Ltd. 1964. Magazine format in pictorial photographic covers, perfect bound, pp.64. Original price 3s/6d. A commemorative photo book published to co-incide with the release of the 1964 James Bond film 'Goldfinger'. With numerous photographs from the first three Bond films (some in colour) and accompanying..... More
Privately Printed, no date [2013]. [James Bond Reference] LIMITED EDITION. A4 ring-binder (30 x 21cm), pp.198, with black and white illustrations. Number 5 of just 20 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Spiral bound with colour-printed card covers. Originally produced in the 90's, this is..... More
UK: 007 Magazine, no date (circa 2012). [James Bond Films] LOBBY CARD ARCHIVE. A4 ring-bound portfolio (30 x 22cm), unpaginated. A comprehensive collection of images of lobby cards and front of house sets ranging from Dr. No (1962) to Die Another Day (2002), including the 'non canonical' 007 films Casino..... More
Scotland: Whittinghame House Press 2000. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp.159. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt, with colour-plate illustration showing the Fleming family crest laid down to upper cover, illustrated endpapers, housed in the original slip-case. A fine copy, SIGNED by the author, and inscribed 'To Sean'. The..... More
New York, NY and Boston, MA: Grand Central Publishing, 2008. [Crime Fiction] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 439 [1], blank. Publisher's hardcover with cartographic endpapers, photographic dust-jacket priced at $24.99. Sight toning; near fine (jacket is meant to appear distressed or worn). Soviet-era detective thriller, nominated for..... More
New York, NY: Signet Books, 1965. [Reference/ Literary criticism] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Pp.127 + [1], advertisement. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 50c, all edges red. Cheap paper stock browned as usual, covers show some rubbing and wear. Very good. A former book illustrator and intelligence operative in Russia, Oswald Frederick..... More
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour film still from Martin Campbell's 2006 film, showing So as 'Fukutu' sitting next to Infante, played by Ade. SIGNED by Tom So in Silver marker. Mounted on black card ready to frame. Total dimensions 28 x 36cm. More