"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
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Bond, The Beatles and My Year With Marilyn. 50 Years as a Movie Marketing Man.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2018. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 223; [1], blank. A paperback original. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine/As new. Autographs obtained in person at the book launch party held at the Bond In Motion exhibition, London Film... More
Windsor Castle. With a Description of the Park, Town, and Neighbourhood. Jubilee Edition.
London: Seeley and Co., 1887. [English Topography] FINELY BOUND, the second edition. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[4]; xii; 297; [3]. With 66 wood engraved illustrations, and a photogravure frontispiece of a statue of Queen Victoria, who celebrated her Golden Jubilee in 1887. A fine contemporary tree calf binding, recently re-cased... More
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, The Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East.
London: John Murray, 1875. [Asian travel] SECOND AND BEST EDITION. Two volumes. octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xl]; 444; pp.[xxi]; 606. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine, with Marco Polo's coat of arms in gilt to upper boards, dark blue coated endpapers. Pictorial frontispieces, decorative title pages by... More
The Only Victor.
London: Heinemann, 1990. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 340; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Geoffrey Huband. Browning and spotting to edges. Very good. More
Heavy Weather.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1933. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 314; [2]. Publisher's black cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. Front dust-jacket inner flap laid onto front pastedown, lacking front free endpaper. Reading lean, some spotting to edges and preliminaries... More
![The Centenary Edition of Ian Fleming's James Bond Novels. [Set of works / novels comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesties Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, and Octopussy with The Living Daylights (short stories)]. Ian Lancaster FLEMING.](/pictures/thumb/52589.JPG?v=1539861617)
The Centenary Edition of Ian Fleming's James Bond Novels. [Set of works / novels comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesties Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, and Octopussy with The Living Daylights (short stories)].
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novels] All FIRST IMPRESSIONS. Fourteen volumes, octavo (23 x 15 x 42cm). Bound in original silver-stamped black cloth in striking dust-jackets with 'retro' style artwork by Michael Gillette. All volumes as new, housed in a custom-made cloth slipcase with fleece lining and ribbon pulls. A.... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [History] HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. In six volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Recent tan half morocco with marbled paper over boards. Raised bands and... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-54. [History] HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. In six volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv; 640; pp.xvii; 684; pp.x; 818; pp.xviii; 917; pp.xviii; 673; pp.xviii; 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Recent maroon half morocco with marbled paper over boards. Raised bands and... More
Sam in the Suburbs.
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1925. [Classic Humour] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2]; 346. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, as well as illustration in black to upper board. Booksellers ticket to flyleaf. Very light toning to edges. Some toning... More
The Far Pavilions.
London: Allen Lane, 1978. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.960. Publisher's green cloth with green gilt titles to spine, tan endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Peter Goodfellow and the author with printed price of £5.95 net. Heavy textblock a little shakem. Spotting to edges. Cloth rubbed, marked... More
British Bats.
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. [Chiropterology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.218. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Robert Gillmor, showing the printed price of £35. Illustrated with eight colour plates and over 120 black and white photographic reproductions and line drawings. Fine. Number... More
Cassell's Illustrated History of India.
London: Cassell and Company, 1890. [Colonial History] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.x; 576; [2]; pp.xii; 588; [2]. Printed in two columns, and densely illustrated with engravings. Contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels on spine, and further gilt... 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, priced at 18s. A lightly used copy in a fresh-looking jacket with minimal edgewear. Near fine. Basis for the classic film starring Michael Caine as 'Harry... More
![[Mr Charlie Parker] To Bird with Love. Chan PARKER, , Francis PAUDRAS.](/pictures/thumb/52507.jpg?v=1539617010)
[Mr Charlie Parker] To Bird with Love.
Poitiers: Editions Wizlov, 1981. [Jazz biography/photography] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (40 x 28cm), pp.409;[1]. Illustrated throughout with photographs. The accompanying text is written by Chan Berg [Parker], Bird's final partner and mother of his son. Text in French and English. Bound in burgundy vinyl-covered boards with inset printed address... More
The History of Don Quixote.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, no date [1867]. [Classic Literature] DORE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp. xxviii, 737. With 118 full-page engraved illustrations by Gustave Dore, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Handsomely bound in burgundy half oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, all... More
![[FLEMING, Ian] PORTRAIT OF IAN FLEMING BY AMHERST VILLIERS. Ian / Bondiana FLEMING.](/pictures/thumb/52568.jpg?v=1539608054)
[FLEMING, Ian] PORTRAIT OF IAN FLEMING BY AMHERST VILLIERS.
no place, no date [printed 2012]. A limited edition giclée print of the only formal portrait of Ian Fleming, painted in 1962 by Charles Amherst Villiers. The painting was then used as a frontispiece to the signed limited edition On Her Majesty's Secret Service, published by Jonathan Cape in 1963... More
The Care of Time.
New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 277 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'With best wishes from | an ever-grateful patient | Eric Ambler | London 14 May 82'. Publisher's purple quarter cloth... More
Our Man in Havana.
London: William Heinemann, 1958. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.273; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Donald Green. Internally clean, with minor toning to margins, neat ink gift inscription to front flyleaf. Binding is tight, with slight reading lean... More
When Eight Bells Toll.
London: Collins, 1966. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255 ;[1]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Heseltine, priced at 21s. Slight reading lean, some toning and marks to edges. Jacket spine sunned, with some small chips and tears to... More
Flashman.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1969. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, with titles in silver to spine. Map endpapers showing the region of Kabul and the Khyber Pass, pictorial dust-jacket, designed by A. E. Barbosa. Internally fine. Small bump to the fore edge of the... More
Eragon. Inheritance, Book One.
London: Doubleday, 2004. [Fantasy novel] FIRST UK EDITION, SIGNED by the author to the title page. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[14]; 509; [5]. Publishers blue cloth hardback with pictorial dust-wrapper. Some toning to the paperstock, otherwise both book and wrapper are fine and unread. With the original 'Eragon' loose bookmark... More
The Great Gatsby.
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 218. The first state of the text shows "chatter" on page 60, line 16, "northern" page 119:22, "sick in tired" page 205:9-10, and "Union Street station" page 211:7-8. Full dark green morocco, gilt, with... More
The Letters of T.E. Lawrence.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. [History] FIRST EDITION, SECOND CORRECTED STATE. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.896. Illustrated with sixteen plates, and four maps, two folding. Publisher's brown buckram in original dust-wrapper. Illustrated with photos and drawings, complete with folding maps. Owner name to flyleaf, jacket a little dusty and sunned to... More
Uncle Fred In The Springtime.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1939. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.311; [1], blank; [3], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fenwick, priced at 7/6. Page edges lightly toned, jacket a shade toned to spine, trivial edgewear and rubbing, one neat... More
Maigret Afraid.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth, titles in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by P. Youngman-Carter, with the printed price of 12s.6d. net. Edges a little dusty, jacket edgeworn and rubbed to extremities, discreet initials 'R.H.' to flap... More