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Chicago: HMH Publishing Co., Inc., Playboy Building, 232 East Ohio Street, 1965. [Spy novel serialisation] FIRST APPEARANCE. Four issues. Magazine format, stapled, illustrated. Overall size 30 x 23cm. Original Price 75 cents per issue. Some light expected handling, small chip to cover of April issue, June issue has centrefold pullout..... More
Chicago: HMH Publishing Co., Inc., Playboy Building, 232 East Ohio Street, 1964. [Spy novel serialisation] FIRST APPEARANCE. Three issues. Magazine format, stapled, illustrated. Centrefolds are present. Original Price 75 cents per issue, two are also priced for UK (8s. 6d.), Sweden (6.25 Krone) and Australia (9s. 6d). Lightly handled with..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A', SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], bank. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 15s, autographed in blue ink..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Second Impression, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.218; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, decorated with heart motif to upper, lettered in red to spine, lower edge untrimmed, housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. A working copy showing much..... More
London: Cassell, 1965. [International airline mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.188. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, with illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. Some spotting, owner's surname to f.e.p., jacket is near fine. The rear panel carries reviews for the author's previous thriller, likened to James Bond; "the..... 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
Penguin Books / Doubleday, in association with Bentley Motors, 2008. [James Bond thriller] FIRST EDITION. LIMITED EDITION, Large Paper copies. With a note to this edition, a foreword by the chief designer of Bentley Motors, and a brief biography of Ian Fleming. Superbly bound in full dark brown leather, with..... More
New York, NY: The Armchair Detective Library, 1990. [Film novelisation] Three differing versions of the John Gardner book; FIRST EDITION in hardcover [with] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITIONS (UK and US). Octavos, hardback in glossy dust-wrapper or photographic card covers. Fine condition throughout. From the comprehensive Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by..... More
[Jonathan Cape, London] First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut, [1953-66] 1980s-90s. [Thrillers] 14 volumes, small octavos (20 x 14 x 41cm). Replica hardcover volumes of foil-stamped bookcloth, illustrated dust-wrappers. The complete set in the original pictorial card slip-cases. Some trivial handling. All books in fine, unread condition, showing minimal handling to..... More
London: Puffin Books, 2008. [Children's Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS, signed by the illustrator. Quarto (26 x 221cm), pp.[8]; 113; [7]. Publisher's red cloth in metallic glossy pictorial dust-wrapper. With the publisher's 'signed' badge affixed to the upper panel. A fine copy, never used. The shiny jacket showing just a...... More
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1958. [True crime] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.160. Illustrated with photos and drawings. With errors corresponding to Gilbert. Publisher's light blue cloth with titles in white to the spine, with four white circles representing diamonds stamped to upper. Black..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2012. [Spy Fiction] 3 volumes, octavo (20 x 13 x 7cm). Bibliographer's copies. Publisher's softcovers in printed card slipcase with cut-out thumbholes. As new, being unopened in the original shrinkwrap. Jon Gilbert's set, with a post-it note applied to box. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of..... More
London, 20th June 1961. Typed letter SIGNED by Saltzman to screenwriter Mankowitz. A detailed letter discussing various matters, including a note on the status of the fledgling Bond picture Dr No; "James Bond is jumping and Cubby and I have just to decide which distributor to make a deal with."..... More
London & New York: Sidgwick and Jackson, Morrow, 1973. [Fictional biography] FIRST EDITIONS thus, being the first UK edition and the first US edition. 2 vols. Bibliographer's copies. Publisher's hardcovers in dust-wrappers. Near fine examples (some spotting and sunning to the British edition). From from the comprehensive archive of James..... More
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2005. [art/design] FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.240. With colour photographs throughout. Publisher's metallic-effect photographic hardcovers priced at £25 R.R.P. Some inevitable light marks and scratches to the unprotected glossy covers otherwise a near fine copy. Rather scarce. A comprehensive narrative-catalogue of works from the influential pop artist..... More
London: Corgi Books, 1977. [James Bond film association] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo, pp.270; [2], advertisements. Publisher's softcovers. Some rubbing, spine rolled. Very good. An unrelated science fiction novel sharing the same title as the 2012 film. This copy is from the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert. His encyclopaedic..... More
London: Titan Books, 2020. [James Bond film reference] Oblong quarto (28 x 30cm), pp.192. Glossy photo-documentary in a large hardback format with gilt-stamped covers, patterned endpapers, and photographic dust-wrapper, priced at £39.99. Illustrated throughout with black & white and colour stills. As new, sealed in shrinkwrap (assumed first printing as..... 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
Eon Productions Limited, Pinewood Studios, UK, 18th August, 1997. [James Bond screenplay] LIMITED EDITION PACK. Comprising Final shooting script, together with a VHS of the film Tomorrow Never Dies, a documentary video film The World of James Bond, a set of seven behind-the-scenes postcards and numbered certificate. Housed within a...... More
Eon Productions Limited, Pinewood Studios, UK, 18th August, 1997. [James Bond screenplay] Final Shooting Script for the UA film 'Tomorrow Never Dies' produced by Barbara Broccoli, and Michael G.Wilson. Complete script, bound in paperback form, gloss black card cover with titles printed in silver with a facsimile signature of James..... More
Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST US EDITION. REVIEW COPY, with extensive notes and ephemera including an AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's two-tone hardcovers cloth blocked in gilt to spine, black endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at $24.95. Near fine (read for..... More
London: Hamlyn, 1989. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Glossy photo-documentary in a large softcover format; a paperback original (30 x 22cm), pp.128. Illustrated throughout with black and white and colour stills, with accompanying text. A near fine copy. A behind-the scenes look at the eighteenth James Bond film. Author Sally..... More
No place. 3rd April 1986. Original storyboard sheets titled Pre-titles Sequence (Land Rover chase). 6 sheets, A3 paper, loose, with printed titles, noted 'Revised 23.5.86'. 108 numbered scenes, illustrated and captioned, covering the dramatic pre-credit sequence where the double-O agents' exercise in Gibraltar is sabotaged and Bond pursues the murderer..... More
Eon Productions and Glidrose Publications. Published by World Distributors, Manchester. 1979. [Film merchandise] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large octavo. Annual format, pp.62, in publisher's laminated pictorial boards, without jacket as issued. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Price is not clipped from flyleaf. A near fine copy. Movie Annual to accompany..... More
New York: US Games Systems, [1973]. An authentic 78-card full colour Tarot fortune-telling deck with fully illustrated instruction book and illustrated spreadsheet for performing ancient 10-card readings. Inspired by the gifted mind-reader 'Solitaire' and sequences in the 1973 film 'Live and Let Die'. Housed in a pictorial card box. A...... More