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Ian Fleming | First Editions
1908 - 1964
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Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in Mayfair, London on 28th May 1908, the second of four brothers. He was schooled at Eton College and continued his education in Europe, studying languages in Kitzbuhel, Munich and Geneva. In the 1930's Fleming worked as both a merchant banker and a stockbroker, but it was at journalism (initially reporting for Reuters, then freelance) that he excelled. During World War II, with the rank of Commander, he worked as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty in London, privy to many secrets. It was his experience in this role and his earlier escapades in Russia that were to inspire many of the plots and characters that would appear within his later novels. After the war Fleming dabbled in travel journalism and began writing instructional articles for his network of 'Mercury [news] Service' agents. In the late '40s he bought a property in Jamaica, where in early 1952 he settled down to write a novel. Casino Royale, the first James Bond adventure, was produced in just two months. The same successful routine was followed every year for the rest of his life, leading to a total of fourteen Bond books.
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The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Decorative bookplate, SIGNED by..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions, priced 16s. Autographed by Amis..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions, priced 16s. Autographed..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
New York, NY: Signet Books, 1966. [Bond reference /critique] FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.127 [1], advertisement. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 60c, all edges red. A clean, fine copy. Uncommon thus. Now a rather elusive paperback, published in the same year as the UK Pan paperback. From..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Pan Books, 1966. [Bond reference / critique] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.157 + [3], advertisements. Publisher's illustrated softcovers designed by Raymond Hawkey. Cheap paper stock a little tanned as usual, covers show some trivial wear. Now a rather elusive paperback. This is Kingsley Amis' first venture..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Pan Books, 1966. [Bond reference / critique] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, EXPORT ISSUE. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.157 + [3], advertisements. Publisher's illustrated softcovers designed by Raymond Hawkey, without printed prices to rear (intended for sale overseas). Cheap paper stock a little tanned as usual, covers show some trivial wear..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Reference critique] ANNOTATED PROOF COPY, with reader's notes and corrections. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's green card lettered in black. With marginal annotations in red ink, and thirteen lines of red ink notes and directions to the front cover in the same hand..... More
The James Bond Dossier. Two variant copies.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (approx. 24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Together with a varian First..... More
For Your Eyes Only: The James Bond Dossier. Official Film Poster Magazine.
London: Phoenix Publications Ltd., 1981. [Film Poster] ORIGINAL POSTER-MAGAZINE. Folded, approx. 30 x 21cm; open 84 x 60cm. US 'one sheet' format, with articles on the film, books, author, and producers to reverse, priced at 75p. Very light wear to folds. Fine. More
For Your Eyes Only: The James Bond Dossier. Official Film Poster Magazine.
London: Phoenix Publications Ltd., 1981. [Film Poster] ORIGINAL POSTER-MAGAZINE. Folded, approx. 30 x 21cm; open 84 x 60cm. US 'one sheet' format, with articles on the film, books, author, and producers to reverse, priced at 75p. Pin-holes to corners, minor handling. Near fine. More
Ian Fleming's Felix Leiter in The Hook and The Eye.
London: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., 2025. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. A paperback original. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 318 [10]. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at £9.99. A fine, as-new copy. James Bond continuation novelist Raymond Benson's first story featuring 007's trusted ally Felix Leiter as the main protagonist..... More
Ian Fleming's Felix Leiter in The Hook and The Eye.
London: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., 2025. [Spy novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. A paperback original. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 318 [10]. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at £9.99. Autograph obtained at the book launch party by Fleming bibliograher Jon Gilbert (of this firm); signed by Raymond Benson in his..... More
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[Complete James Bond novels]: Zero Minus Ten; Tomorrow Never Dies; The Facts of Death; High Time to Kill; The World Is Not Enough; Doubleshot; Never Dream of Dying; The Man With The Red Tattoo; Die Another Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997-2002. [Spy novels] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. A complete set of Raymond Benson's James Bond novels, housed in an elegant bespoke fleece-lined cloth slipcase with ribbon pull measuring 24 x 24 x 16cm. Nine volumes, Octavo. Publisher's hardcover cloth in illustrated dust-jackets. No inscriptions or..... More
The Ian Fleming Collection of 19th-20th century Source material Concerning Western Civilization together with the Originals of the James Bond-007 Tales.
Indiana; Lilly Library Publication Number XII, [1970]. A Catalogue of the Ian Fleming Collection as purchased by the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. FIRST (and only) EDITION. Slim octavo, pp.50, stapled. With illustrations. Publisher's printed covers with the Fleming coat-of-arms to front. A clean, fine copy. An uncommon..... More
The Ian Fleming Collection of 19th-20th century Source material Concerning Western Civilization together with the Originals of the James Bond-007 Tales.
Indiana: Lilly Library Publication Number XII, [1970]. A Catalogue of the Ian Fleming Collection as purchased by the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana. FIRST (and only) EDITION. Slim octavo, pp.50, stapled. With illustrations. Publisher's printed covers with the Fleming coat-of-arms to front. A crisp, fine copy, with tucked-in..... More
The 18th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography. With a Foreword by Fabrizio Govi.
Published with the support of The Book Collector, 2022. [Literary magazine] Double-signed copy. Octavo, pp.32. Illustrated with photographs. In typographic wrappers, stapled. Unused. A one-off printing on the occasion of The 18th ILAB Breslauer, awarded at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, on 14th September 2022. The Book Collector, the..... More
Programme for the 2014 International Antiquarian Book Fair, Grand Palais, Paris.
ILAB-LILA, 11-13 April 2014. [Handbook] Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.98, illustrated throughout with photographs. Text in French. A guide to the Paris Book Fair and associated events including the presentation of the 16th Breslauer Prize for Bibliography, awarded to Jon Gilbert for Ian Fleming: The Bibliography. SIGNED by the subject..... More
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The Book Collector, 1952 [Four Issues].
London: The Queen Anne Press, 1952. [Literary Journal] Three issues covering from first year of this magazine published under the stewardship of Ian Fleming and whose name appears on the title page. Vol.1, No.1 (Spring 1952), No.3 (Autumn 1952), No.4 (Winter 1952), together with publisher's insert. Publisher's Yapp edges a...... More
Poems.
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. [Verse] FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 94 of 200 copies, signed by the author. Slim small folio, pp.18; [2]. Printed on hand-press paper. Publisher's cloth-backed red paper boards, edges untrimmed. Decorative bookplate and ownership signature of Eve Fleming. Contents clean, boards shelf-worn. very good. Campbell was..... More
James Bond, The Man and His World, The Official Companion to Ian Fleming's Creation.
London: John Murray, 2005. [Literary Reference] FIRST EDITION, with strike-like '1' present. Illustrated quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.250. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. Contents clean, top edge dusty/toned, minor soiling to reverse of jacket. Near fine. Cited by Gilbert as a primary reference book on Ian..... More
All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.221; [3], blank, illustrated by Eric Fraser. Publisher's mid-green bookcloth, blocked in blue. Contents clean, page edges toned, jacket flap tucked in as bookmark, spine darkened/toned. Very good. The tale of a corrupt eighteenth-century rake, mixed with..... More
All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's. Introduced by Ian Fleming.
New York: Macmillan [Printed and bound in Great Britain], 1963. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION THUS (published simultaneously with the British edition). Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 7-197; [1], blank. Publisher's smooth cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to the spine, top edge tinted orange, in pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions..... More
All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's. Introduced by Ian Fleming.
New York: Macmillan [Printed and bound in Great Britain], 1963. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION THUS (published simultaneously with the British edition). Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 7-197; [1], blank. Publisher's smooth cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to the spine, top edge tinted orange, in pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions..... More
All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's. Introduced by Ian Fleming.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 7-197; [1], blank. Publisher's smooth cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt titles to the spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 16s. No inscriptions, contents and page edges clean. Jacket is clean and bright; excellent but for..... More
Airline Detective. The Fight Against International Air Crime. Introduced by Ian Fleming.
London: Collins, 1962. [True crime] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Second impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 7-197; [1], blank. Publisher's smooth cloth-effect paper over boards, with red titles to the spine, top edge tinted orange, in pictorial dust-wrapper. With presentation note to title; Yours very sincerely / Donald..... More