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William Boyd | First Editions
1952
William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952) is a British novelist and screenwriter, best known for his novels A Good Man in Africa and An Ice-Cream War. Boyd's official James Bond novel, Solo, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2013.
William Boyd has a catalogue of literary awards, including the 1981 Whitbread First Novel Award for A Good Man in Africa, the 1982 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year for The Blue Afternoon, the 2006 Costa Book Award for Restless, and the 2007 British Book Awards/Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (shortlist) for Restless, among many others.
See below our stock of Douglas Adams First Editions, and signed copies.
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The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth.
London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.258. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in black to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper by Vivian Maier with orange Signed Copy label, and printed price of £14.99 to flap. A fine/as new copy. William..... More
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Solo [A James Bond Novel]
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's red screen-printed hardcovers in an embossed and die-cut dustjacket, featuring bullet-holes in the style of the original US printing of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun (this adventure being set in 1969, a little after the..... More
Solo.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. [James Bond Novel] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp326. Publisher's red screen-printed hardcovers, red endpapers, embossed and die-cut dust-jacket, featuring bullet-holes in the style of the original US printing of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun (this adventure being set in 1969..... More
Solo.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. [James Bond Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.326. Publisher's red screen-printed hardcovers, red endpapers, embossed and die-cut dust-jacket, featuring bullet-holes in the style of the original US printing of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun (this adventure being set in 1969..... More
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