"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme

London: Penguin Classics, 2009. [James Bond saga] FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.597. With an Introduction by Nicholas Lezard, literary critic for The Guardian. This copy is custom-bound by hand in half black calf, lettered in gilt, raised bands to spine, matching cloth over boards, with original..... More
London: A.H. Bullen, 1909. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 162 [2]. With a black and white photographic portrait of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges untrimmed. Toning to textblock edges and spotting to endpapers, else internally..... More
London: Macmillan and Co, 1892. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean, some light bumping to boards corners and spine. Near fine. Poems from a Poet Laureate. More
London: John Murray, 1866. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16] 827 [3]. Finely bound by HAYDAY in full black morocco, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt panelled decoration to boards, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn ins over plain endpapers. With an engraved frontispiece..... More
London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1878. [Classic Literature] ILLUSTRATED VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[24] 488. Five illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles and band decoration to spine, black ruling and pictorial title to front board, blind ruling and device to back board..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1847. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[30] 619 [3]. With a steel engraved portrait frontispiece and vignette title page. Small print over two columns. Full tan calf, with gilt titles to dark green label, gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, panelled..... More
London: Ellis and Green, 1872. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, the Sixth Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[12] 282 [4]. Full dark green crushed morocco, gilt titles and floral decorations to spine, with gilt ruling and floral decorations to boards and raised bands. Gilt dentelle to turn ins, Double Comb marbled endpapers..... More
London: William Tegg and Co, 1849. [Poetical works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[72] 676 [2]. Nine illustrations including portrait frontispiece. Dark green full calf, gilt titles on red label to spine, with gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, and wide decorative border in gilt and blind..... More
Queen Anne Press, 2008. 18 volumes, octavo. Original quarter vellum by Shepherds, Sangorski & Sutcliffe, replicating the original limited edition of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, spines lettered in gilt, black cloth sides, red endpapers embossed with Fleming's initials, edges gilt. Housed in the original black cloth slipcases with black..... More
The Viking Press, 2002. 14 volumes, octavo. Original black boards, lettering to spines in silver, excepting gilt lettering on Goldfinger and The Man With the Golden Gun. With dust jackets. Housed in custom black cloth fleece-lined slipcase. A near-fine set, with slight sunning to edges, in like dust jackets. First..... More
Reprint Society; Book Club, 1956-66. 11 volumes, octavo. Original boards. With dust jackets. Housed in custom black slipcase. Very good copies, minor rubbing and bumping to spine ends and boards, edges foxed, offsetting and foxing to first and final few leaves, in like dust jackets, rubbing and nicks to spine..... More
The Macmillan Company, 1961. Octavo. Orignal blue cloth-backed black boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Together with two typed letters signed from Fleming to James Bond, 2 leaves (253 x 202 mm), headed notepaper ("4, Old Mitre Court, Fleet Street, E.C.4") and one envelope. Housed..... More