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New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Henry Holt, 2014. [Detective mystery] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 290; [4]. Limited to 100 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's quarter black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. [Mystery collection] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18.5 x 13cm), pp.316; [4], advertisement. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth with blue endpapers in pictorial dust jacket priced at 7s 6d. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy of the book in a bright, near fine wrapper with..... More
London: Smith Elder and Co., 1903. [Espionage novel] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 336 [8]. Illustrated with maps and charts, including a folding frontispiece. Bound in black full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt ruling to boards. Top edge gilt..... More
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Harper Collins, 2012. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 98 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 279; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. Suspense novel..... More
London: The Zodiac Press, 1955. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, the third impression thus. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.x; 308. Title page printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in blue half crushed morocco, by Frost & Co. of Bath, with raised bands and gilt to spine, light blue buckram-covered boards, marbled..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1833. [English Literature] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION of the novels, also the first single volume edition of each title. Small octavo (16 x 11 x 15cm), two illustrations per volume being an engraved frontispiece and vignette title. With printed series title to each volume, bound without..... More
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1963. [American Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 56. Publisher's green patterned paper-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt, deckled fore-edge untrimmed, illuastrated dust-jacket priced 15s. Owner's small and unobtrusive name to f.e.p., else clena and fine, in a bright, near fine..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1961, [Fantasy Classic] FIRST EDITION, the eleventh, eighth, and eighth impressions respectively. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (23 x 15 x 10cm), pp.423 [1]; pp.352; pp.416. With a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines and..... More
London: Dorling Kinderley, 2015. [James Bond film reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.208. Glossy photo-documentary in a large hardback format with photographic covers, patterned endpapers, priced at £25. Illustrated throughout with black and white and colour stills, with accompanying text. Curated by Rankin, with an introduction by Sam Mendes. Fine /as..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.766 [2]. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards with matching dust-jacket illustrated by Jason Cockroft, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy, dark-stored by ourselves since publication. The fifth Harry Potter adventure which was shortlisted for Prometheus Award [Libertarian Science..... More
London: Peter Owen, 2001. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.432. Illustrated with a suite photographic plates. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt, photographic jacket, priced at £22.50. A clean, fine copy. Retailer's security tag to flap. The biography of literary heavyweight Kingsley Amis, who had more than..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. [Wartime memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter Barrett, priced 35/-. Contents clean, cloth covers rather mottled and discoloured, jacket near fine. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy (pencilled ownership within). A...... More
New York, NY: Newsstand Publications, July 1963. [Men's Magazine] PERIODICAL APPEARANCE. Magazine format (28 x 21cm), pp.82. The story appears on pp.34-5, 39-44, 46, being an illustrated printing of 'For Your Eyes Only', published under this new title and advertised as a 'Ian Fleming's Lustiest Book'. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers..... More
New York, NY: Atlas Magazines, 1964. [Men's Magazine] FIRST U.S. PERIODICAL APPEARANCE. Magazine format (28 x 21cm), pp.130. The story appears on pp.12-15, 118-129, being an abridged illustrated printing of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', published under this new title and advertised as a 'Suspense novel'. Publisher's Colour-illustrated paper covers..... More
New York: Time-Life International [1964].New York: Time-Life International. [Current Affairs] Pp.60. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps, with photographs throughout. Atlantic edition, priced 2/6 for UK. A fine copy. Includes a long obituary of Ian Fleming (pp.18-19), who had died on 12th August. Accompanied by a Loomis Dean portrait of..... More
London: Collins, 1962. [Maritime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Heseltine priced at 16s. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine book, in a very good jacket with a few small rubs and some..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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