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Tomorrow Never Dies.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. [Spy thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.213. The standard hardcover edition, with cover photo of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and only Bruce Fierstein listed as scriptwriter (a rare variant exists with four writers credited). Published simultaneously with the mass-market softcover. A lovely... More
!['Berlin Escape' [The Living Daylights] (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 354, Number 6, June 1962. Ian Lancaster FLEMING.](/pictures/thumb/39631.JPG?v=1493310872)
'Berlin Escape' [The Living Daylights] (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 354, Number 6, June 1962.
Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. 1962. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. Minor wear to spine and postal label to upper else fine. The novella is advertised on the front cover and appears on pages 22-4, 95-100, with a full-colour frontispiece illustration by Lou... More
Dr No.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriott. The first issue without the 'Dancing Lady' design on the upper board (present on the later issue). Book is clean and bright with some minor... More
For Your Eyes Only (James Bond short stories).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. [James Bond short stories] FIRST EDITION. First Impression, Binding A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, pictorial dust-wrapper, priced-clipped. Page edges dusty/thumbed. Jacket with some edgewear, toned to spine, light soiling. Very good. The first selection of James Bond short stories... More
For Your Eyes Only.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1960. FIRST US EDITION. Octavo, pp.218. Publisher's yellow and green cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Dampmark to rear joint and top edge else book is fine. Jacket is lightly rubbed with a few small chips to spine... More
From Russia, With Love (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253. Half black oasis morocco over original foil-stamped black cloth boards, gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Internally clean; a fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. This entry in the legendary James Bond series is... More
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.318. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with 'skull' design stamped to upper, in original pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 15s. No inscriptions, jacket with minor toning to extremities, joints a little rubbed... More
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, FIRST STATE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.318. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with 'skull' design stamped to upper; the earliest binding with the extra detail to the skull. With pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 15s. Some... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. FIRST ISSUE, SECOND STATE, BINDING B. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [1] blank. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, usual state with plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, price-clipped. Slight reading... More
Moonraker.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST PRINTING, BINDING A (Fabroleen material). This version with 'shoot' correctly printed to page 10. Octavo, pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, titled in silver. Former library copy with three stamps removed from title, contents and fly-title leaves. Some evidence of removal/paper repair... More
Octopussy and the Living Daylights.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. In printed green wrappers and the pictorial dust-jacket which differs considerably to the published version. The text features some significant differences within the preliminaries leaves, plus literals and minor variations throughout. A near fine copy of the book... More
For Your Eyes Only (James Bond short stories).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. First Impression, Binding A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Contents clean, light marks to rear board, a few minor scuffs to front panel of the jacket, lightly edgeworn, strong red lettering to... More
Thrilling Cities.
Jonathan Cape, London, 1963. First Impression, First State. DEDICATION COPY, signed by the author. Pp.223. Publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt to the spine, black endpapers, top edge stained black. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Paul Davis. Illustrated with photographic plates, and with erratum slip tipped... More
The Spy's Bedside Book.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Anthology]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Occasional illustrations. Half blue morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, cloth sides. Light spotting to first and final leaves else internally clean, externally unmarked. A near fine copy in a handsome recent leather binding. An... More
Icebreaker. A James Bond novel.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton 1983. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth. Gilt titles to spine. Fine in fine dust wrapper. SIGNED on flap by the dustwrapper artist Bill Botten, who produced the jacket art for both of Christopher Wood's James Bond novels and the early Gardner Bonds... More
James Bond: Licence to Kill. From the motion picture written by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum.
The Armchair Detective Library, 1989. 'Collector' issue, in the publisher's de luxe binding of blue cloth with silver trim and pictorial illustration. 'Licence to Kill' is bibliographically complex; the UK-printed trade edition was published in April 1989 (with cancelled title). A 'Collector' edition (blue cloth) and 'Signed Limited' edition (burgundy... More
Trigger Mortis.
London: Orion, 2015. [Spy novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, Waterstones version. The latest James Bond novel, incorporating an original story/idea 'Murder On Wheels' by Ian Fleming. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.329; [1], advertisement. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers with large skull motif blocked to upper in silver, with black and orange-coloured dust-jacket... More
Colonel Sun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Illustrated map endpapers. The rarer variant with a dropped quad mark to the date on the copyright page (rather in the same manner as 'The Spy Who Loved Me' variant- see Gilbert). Publisher's hardcovers in... More
Ian Fleming: The Book Collector.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. Ten monographs, SIGNED LETTERPRESS EDITIONS, being the FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. 10 vols., slim octavo (26 x 18cm), limited variously to 60 or 120 copies, each hand-numbered and signed by James and Fergus Fleming. Finely printed on 150gsm Bockingford paper and bound in black flock-paper covers... More
GoldenEye
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1996. FIRST HODDER EDITION. Royal octavo, pp.218. Publisher's hardcover in original photographic dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. This copy in the standard black binding with gilt lettering; this title was also issued for libraries in plain red cloth. Some trivial wear and faint toning to paperstock. A.... More
Ian Fleming: The Bibliography.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. SIGNED by the author. Royal quarto (33 x 22cm), with black and white illustrations throughout plus four suites of eight colour plates. Set in Albertina type and printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in full green cloth with black endpapers, gilt lettering and ornament. A.... More
Jonathan Cape, Publisher.
London: Jonathan Cape 1971. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TOM MASCHLER. Octavo, pp.351 + [1]. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. One of an unspecified number of publisher's in-house presentation copies, with a printed commemorative label affixed to the flyleaf and additional director's slip attached to pastedown bearing the hand-written... More
A Secret Service. Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist.
London, Ward, Lock and Bowden. 1896. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 320pp. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled and decorated in black and red to upper, gilt titles to spine. Lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise crisp, clean and highly presentable. A collection of tales of bomb-throwing anti-tsarist revolutionaries, anarchists and political corruption, set... More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Large octavo (24 x 16cm). pp.346, with pp16 photographic plates. Publisher's patterned green softcovers. Prelims spotted, spine wrinkled, some toning to edges and extremities, joints rubbed. Very good, in a custom-made quarter green morocco clamshell box. Scarce in this format. The proof features... More
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