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Win, Lose Or Die (a James Bond novel).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.220. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper with original price £11.95 to flap. A lovely fine copy. Britain's greatest spy returns in John Gardner's eighth original 007 novel. 'Win, Lose or Die' finds Bond back in active..... More
SeaFire.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994. [James Bond Continuation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (16 x 24cm), pp.247. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £14.99 for the UK market (non-priced export copies were also produced). Edges slightly toned. A fine copy. An original novel starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. BMC..... More
Never Send Flowers.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [James Bond Continuation] FIRST EDITION, EXPORT COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 212 [2]. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket with no price to front flap- copies without a printed price were intended for export. A fine copy in jacket. When an officer of..... More
Death Is Forever.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.248. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £14.99 for the UK market (non-priced export copies were also produced). A fine copy. 'Death Is Forever' plunges James Bond into the dangerous, shadowy world of post-Cold-War Europe. Loaded..... More
Doubleshot.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.274. Publisher's cloth with pictorial dust-wrapper. The signature was obtained during the book launch event held at our London bookshop. A fine copy. The fourth of author Raymond Benson's successful series of adventures..... More
The James Bond Collection. Licence Renewed; For Special Services; Icebreaker; Role of Honour; Nobody Lives For Ever.
London: Swordfish, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2011. [Spy novels] BOX SET. Quality hardback re-issues of the first Jonathan Cape editions (1981-6) featuring the same dust-jacket artwork. FIRST EDITIONS thus, with a full strike-line number sequence. Octavo, five volumes in publisher's illustrated red card slip-case, showing original printed price..... More
Vagabond. The Grail Quest.
London: Harper Collins, 2002. [Historical Fiction]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 371; [1], blank. With map, vignette illustrations and pictorial endpapers. Publisher's hardcover in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author to title-page. Signed upon release and carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. An as new/unread copy. A young..... More
Farewell but Not Goodbye. My Autobiography.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2005. [Sport] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 310. Illustrated with four suites of photographic plates. Publisher's hardcovers, pale blue endpapers, in dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Author's signature in black ballpoint to the title page. Signed upon release and carefully warehoused by ourselves since..... More
Quantum of Solace. The Complete James Bond Short Stories.
New York, NY: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2008. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Pp.279. Publisher's illustrated softcovers by Roseanne Serra and Richie Fahey, uniform with Penguin's 'Bond Re-jacketed' series; the artwork was exclusive to North America. A fine, as-new copy, having been carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A paperback original;..... More
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Three of Them [and] Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [and] The Film that was Never Shown [and] The Magic Plus Fours [and] Billy Bones [and] The Forbidden Subject [and] First Aid for Dora [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 55, 56, 64, and 66; numbers 328, 331, 332, 366, 384 and 392.
London: George Newnes, April, July, August, and December 1918, December 1922, and August 1923. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.44; 265-344; 45-52; pp.20; 76; 21-32; pp.16; 77-152; 17-34; pp.64; 361-484; 65-82; pp.84; 487-628; 85-118; pp.48; 105-212; 49-64. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's..... More
History of the County of Kent: Hundred of Blackheath; Deptford.
London: John Russell Smith [J.D. Smith], 1854 [1877] [1922]. [Kent Topography] LIMITED EDITION, a later issue. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.599 [3]. With two geological maps of the region (not coloured); numerous tables; an engraving of the Dreadnought as a seamen's hospital; an engraving of the Catholic Chapel, Mechanics' Institution..... More
The Woman of Andros. aq
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 21cm), pp.[12] 105 [7]. With a woodcut frontispiece tipped in with a tissue guard. Printed on fine handmade paper by the Westminster Press. Number 22 of just 260 copies SIGNED by the author in black..... More
The Alphabet Annotated for Youth and Adults in Doggerel Verse by an Old Etonian.
London: Ackermann & Co., no date [1853]. [Illustrated Humour] FIRST EDITION. Folio (33 x 26cm), pp.64. With fine marginal engravings to every page by Terry. Publisher's brown cloth with an engraved paper title label to upper. All edges gilt; yellow-coated endpapers. Repairs to split hinges. Black ink ownership to verso..... More
Agraffes and Bronze Animals: Ancient Chinese Ornaments. The Symbols of the bronze cultures at ancient times on the Eurasian Continent. The dialogues between China and Greece via Scythians.
Tokyo: Ribun Shuppan Co., no date [1994]. [Artefact Catalogue] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.[2] 138 [2]. With a title page and summary of contents in English, a series of essays in Japanese at rear, and references given in both languages. With very fine colour photographic images of..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
Illustrations of Tracts on the Greek-Egyptian Sun-Dial, with Seven Steps, etc.: Being the second and third series of illustrations for tracts on Christianity in its relation to Judaism and Heathenism, etc. etc.
London: Simpkin and Co., 1870. [Occult Astrology] RARE AND FINELY BOUND. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.9; pp.4. Filled with astrological diagrams and occasional illustrated plates, some folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and Masonic gilt tooling to spine. Marbled paper over boards; all..... More
The Vegetable, Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. With the original green cloth cover and spine bound in at rear. Recent green full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and a gilt autograph stamped to upper board. Marbled endpapers;..... More
High Time To Kill.
London: Coronet Books / Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, SIGNED by the author to the title page. Octavo, pp.294. Publisher's sofcovers, illustrated by David Scutt. Signature obtained during one of the author's many book launch events held at our shop. Absolutely fine throughout, being carefully dark stored by..... More
Tomorrow Never Dies.
London: Coronet Books / Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. TRUE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author to the title page. The standard softcover edition, with cover photo of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and Bruce Feirstein listed as scriptwriter. Published simultaneously with the (very limited) hardcover. The signature was obtained during..... More
'My Name's Bond' - an anthology from the Fiction of Ian Fleming.
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
Man of War.
London: Heinemann, 2003. [Naval Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.276; [2], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £16.99. Autographed in black ink to title page. Signature obtained in person upon release. An as new/unread copy..... More
Danger Society (Young James Bond series)
London: Puffin Books, 2009. FIRST HARDBACK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm) pp.278. Publisher's silver-coloured boards with all edges silver and original wraparound sash present- no jacket was issued. Carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication, this is a fine copy (with some nominal storage wear- these metallic bindings readily show scratches)..... More
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The Book Collector: Ian Fleming and Book Collecting [a special issue]. Edited by James Fergusson; Consultant Editor, Nicolas Barker.
London: The Collector Limited, 2017. [Literary Journal] Vol. 66, No.1, Spring 2017. Octavo, pp.288. A bumper number (profusely illustrated), in gold wrappers, SIGNED by contributor Jon Gilbert (p.182). A fine, unread copy. To celebrate its 65th anniversary, The Book Collector magazine devoted its Spring 2017 issue to Ian Fleming, who..... More
The Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Wood Engraving] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.136. A fine catalogue of wood engravings by Raverat, selected with an introduction by Stone. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to a green background on spine; top edge yellow. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced..... More
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The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND SET, the second edition thus. Six volumes bound as five. Octavo (20 x 14 x 20cm), pp.[6] xvi; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 522 [4]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 311 [3]. With occasional half-tone..... More