"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
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Bond and Byond. The Political Career of a Popular Hero.
London: Macmillan, 1987. [James Bond reference] FIRST EDITION, hardback issue. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.315; [1], blank. Publisher's grey cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt, photographic dust-wrapper. Bibliographer's copy, lightly used. Near fine. An unusual item of Bondiana. This is a serious critical study of the subject which was issued simultaneously..... More
Introduces Jamaica. Edited by Morris Cargill.
Jamaica: Sangster's Book Stores / Andre Deutsch, 1965. [Travel book] FIRST EDITION, Second Impression, JAMAICAN ISSUE. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.240, illustrated throughout with colour plates, map endpapers printed in colour. Publisher's russet cloth hardcover, gilt titles, top edge ochre, in photographic dust-jacket. Neat ink inscription, jacket with some edgewear..... More
Introduces Jamaica. Edited by Morris Cargill.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. [Travel book] FIRST EDITION, Second Impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.240, illustrated throughout with colour plates, map endpapers printed in colour. Publisher's russet cloth hardcover, gilt titles, top edge ochre, in photographic dust-jacket priced at 42s. Trivial wear to jacket, corner bumped; remains a fresh, bright..... More
Introduces Jamaica. Edited by Morris Cargill.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. [Travel book] REVISED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.236; [4], illustrated throughout with colour plates, map endpapers printed in colour. Publisher's russet cloth hardcover, gilt titles, top edge ochre, in photographic dust-jacketpriced at £2.25. A clean, fine copy of the book in similar jacket. An excellent..... More
Ian & I.
USA: Privately Printed, No date (1980s). [Biography / Memoirs] ENLARGED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.152; [9]. Illustrated with maps, photographs and facsimile letters. Original blue buckram-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and upper. A fine copy. Partially re-written, with a new epilogue, this edition is in a larger..... More
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Fiesta [The Sun Also Rises].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [Modern literature] FIRST UK EDITION, earliest text. Crown octavo, pp.286. Elegantly hand-bound in full red morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Contents mostly clean with a few minor spots/marks, vintage tape repairs to top corner of the first..... More
Rebecca.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1938. [Gothic Mystery] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 446. Elegantly bound in black half calf over matching black buckram sides, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, t.e.g., publisher's original lettered cloth preserved at rear. A little spotting to first and final..... More
The Second World War. The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-1954. [Military history] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete 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. Elegantly bound in green half morocco, with gilt titles and..... More
Shovelling Trouble.
London: Quartet Books Ltd., 1973. [Literary Essays] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.162; [2]. Publisher's purple cloth hardcovers, purple endpapers, photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.50. A crisp, fine copy. Mordecai Richler was a Canadian author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and essayist. Includes the long essay 'Bond', a contemporary critique..... More
Shovelling Trouble.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972. [Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers, grey endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket priced at $6.95 to front flap. One tiny tear to rear. A crisp, fine copy, almost as new. Mordecai Richler was a Canadian author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and..... More
A Room of One's Own.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.172. Cinnamon cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Decorative bookplate and ownership signature of Eve Fleming. Offset toning to endpapers, light handling; a near fine copy without the jacket. One of the most famous works of Ms. Woolf;..... More
Double O Seven. James Bond. A Report.
London: Neville Spearman, Holland Press, 1964. [Reference/ Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.160. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers in Richard Chopping-style dust-wrapper, priced at 18s. With a fine insightful SIGNED inscription to flyleaf; "To Peter Kay / a 'Double O' / bookseller / from his /..... More
Ian Fleming's Seven Deadlier Sins & 007's Moral Compass.
Canton, Michigan: David Crumm Media, 2008. [Critique] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 158. Colour-illustrated soft covers. As new. An academic study on the morality of James Bond, with an introduction entitled 'On the Centenary of Ian Lancaster Fleming'. From the comprehensive collection assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled..... More
The Spy's Bedside Book. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene. With An Introduction by Stella Rimington.
London: Folio Society, 2006. [Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION THUS, first printing. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.261; [1], blank; [1], order form; [1], blank. With illustrations by Nick Hardcastle. Publisher's decorated blue cloth, tan endpapers, in tan slipcase ('Jack' bulldog paperweight not included). Fine throughout. An intriguing mix of factual and..... More
Contributes 'Foreign news' to 'The Kemsley Manual of Journalism'.
London: Cassell, 1950. [Journalism] FIRST EDITION. Illustrated Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.i-xiv; 424; xvi-xlvi, advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in midnight blue half calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth boards. Minor marks to fore-edge. Fine. Ian Fleming's first appearance in book-form, following a privately distributed ring-bound manual for..... More
Shovelling Trouble.
London: Quartet Books Ltd., 1973. [Literary Essays] Uncorrected proof copy of FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.162, printed on rectos only. Publisher's printed softcovers. Low-grade paper toned as expected, hand-written publication date to cover, minor wear; near fine. Proofs are scarce. Mordecai Richler was a Canadian author, Academy..... More
Scarne on Card Tricks.
London: Constable. 1953. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), Pp. x; 138. Publisher's red cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 8s. 6d. to front flap. Edges toned, jacket with some edge wear, rubbed to spine. Very good. The..... More
Scarne on Cards Tricks.
New York: Crown Publishers 1959. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] Fourth printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Owner label to rear pastedown. Worn wrapper with a some chips and tears, loss to rear corner, taped to rear, spine sunned. The follow-up to Scarne on..... More
Scarne on Cards.
New York: Crown Publishers 1949. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Pp.x; 406. With frontisportrait and 75 illustrations. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. Wrapper with a few small nicks and tears, some soiling to rear flap. Very good indeed. A James Bond source book, cited by Ian..... More
Ark magazine. The Journal of the Royal College of Art. No.5 (Summer 1952).
London SW7, 1952. [Art & Design] Issue No. 5 of this occasional magazine of graphic arts. Contains Illustrated essays by Herbert Read, Jack Beddington, Carel Weight, Robert Buhler etc. Colour lithographs by Robert Buhler, Derek Greaves, Carel Weight, Edward Middleditch, etc. Oblong octavo, pp.64, stapled. Lightly handled; near fine. Raymond..... More
Traitor's Kiss
London: Bantam Press, 2003. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.428; [4], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £12.99. Some toning to edges of text block else fine in fine wrapper. Shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, an annual..... More
Child 44.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2008. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, additionally dated by the author on publication day. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 473 [1]. Maps to endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine copy. Nominated for the Man..... More
Ian Fleming.
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. [Literary biography]. FIRST EDITION, octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 144. Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, photographic dust-wrapper. A fine copy in a near fine jacket, slightly scuffed to extremities. A book-length biography of James Bond's creator, written by two history scholars from Brown University, Providence, R.I...... More
Before I Go to Sleep.
London: Doubleday, 2011. [Psychological Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.366 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and burgundy endpapers. With the dust-jacket deigned by Claire Ward, priced at £12.99. Toned to edges, with some..... More
The Spy's Bedside Book. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Spy Anthology] PRESENTATION COPY, given by the author Hugh Greene to A.H. Warren., M.B.E. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. Second printing. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, illustrated dust-wrapper. With accompanying T.L.S. and related news clipping. Previous owner's detail discreetly inked to flyleaf..... More