"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht
James Bond 007
Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies.
London: Collins, 1960. [Ornithology] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256; [1], blank. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket. Contents clean; a fine copy of the book in a slightly edge-worn price-clipped wrapper. Uncommon..... More
![Solo [Waterstones Special Edition]. William BOYD, born 1952](/pictures/thumb/61769.jpg?v=1649691450)
Solo [Waterstones Special Edition].
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. [James Bond Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.326. Publisher's red screen-printed hardcovers, red endpapers, embossed and die-cut dust-jacket, featuring bullet-holes in the style of the original US printing of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun (this adventure being set in 1969, a...... More
Robert Brownjohn. Sex and Typography.
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2005. [art/design] FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.240. With colour photographs throughout. Publisher's metallic-effect photographic hardcovers priced at £25 R.R.P. A fine copy. Some inevitable light marks and scratches to the unprotected glossy covers otherwise a near fine copy. Rather scarce. A comprehensive narrative-catalogue of works from the..... More
Mr. Standfast.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1919. Advance proof copy. 8vo. Publisher's original plain brown wraps, slightly spotted with minor edgewear. Internally clean, unifom light toning to page block. A most unusual and scarce advance proof copy of Mr. Standfast, one of Buchan's scarcer Richard Hannay stories. Protected by a tailor-made brown..... More
John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.224. With a foreword by Maurice Sendak, and an introduction by Brian Alderson. Illustrated in colour throughout. Signed by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the..... More
Not Forgetting James Bond.
UK: GBU Publishing, 2003. LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER, one of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author to the limitation plate. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.192, illustrated throughout. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver in glossy colour dust-jacket. A fine, as-new copy. 'Not Forgetting James Bond' is the autobiography of Syd..... More
Signed Michael Chow Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Michael Chow (Spectre 4) in blue marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Young Bond: Heads You Die.
London: Doubleday, 2016. [Children's adventure novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank; [16], Endmatter. Publisher's blue cloth boards blocked in silver, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced £14.99 to the rear panel. Signature in black ink to the title page. A used copy showing..... More
Young Bond: Heads You Die.
London: Doubleday, 2016. [Children's adventure novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank; [16], Endmatter. Publisher's blue cloth boards blocked in silver, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced £14.99 to the rear panel. Signature in black ink to the title page. A fine, as-new copy..... More
Young Bond: Shoot To Kill.
London: Doubleday, 2014. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4]; 296; [1], Acknowledgements; [2], Map; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth boards blocked in silver, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced £12.99 to the rear panel. A fine, unread copy (as new). The first of Steve Cole's Young Bond..... More
Young Bond: Shoot To Kill.
London: Doubleday, 2014. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4]; 296; [1], Acknowledgements; [2], Map; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth boards blocked in silver, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced £12.99 to the rear panel. No inscriptions. A very good copy with a few small nicks to jacket..... More
The Lincoln Lawyer.
London: Orion, 2005. [Legal Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 404 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A fine, as-new copy. Basis for..... More
The Union Trilogy and Choice of Weapons. Being his complete James Bond novels and short stories.
New York: Pegasus Books, 2008, 2010. [James Bond] Two Omnibus volumes. FIRST EDITIONS, also FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK-FORM of the short stories 'Blast From the Past', 'Live at Five', 'Midsummer Night's Doom'. Large octavo, pp.846; 847. Softcover originals in the publisher's illustrated card covers. Unused/as new copies, housed in an..... More
Carte Blanche. 'Bentley Edition' with engraved bullet.
London: Bentley 007 / Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. [Spy thriller] LIMITED EDITION by Bentley Motors, No.328 of 500 copies of their 'Red' edition (A 'white' binding was also issued, in a similar style but with a chrome box in the shape of a Bentley GT). Text printed in two colours..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. An as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A James Bond adventure set in Afghanistan and..... More
Garden of Beasts. A Novel of Berlin 1936.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 404 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Low grade paper somewhat toned, with a little..... More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File No.3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's hardcover, printed black endpapers, dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey. A clean, fine copy. Basis for the classic film starring Michael Caine as 'Harry Palmer', produced by Harry Saltzman who made the Bond movies; mention of..... More
'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
'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
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in Richard Chopping-esque pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Near fine but for an unfortunate production fault to p.105, where the leaf has snagged in the gutter (text perfectly legible once..... More
Signed Karin Dor and Mie Hama Title Card for the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED TITLE CARD. One colour title card for Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) and Mie Hama (Kissy) in black marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Signed Karin Dor and Burt Kwouk Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour film still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) in blue marker, and by Burt Kwouk (Spectre 3) in black ink. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
Signed Karin Dor Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour film still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Karin Dor (Helga Brandt) in black marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More