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— Abraham Lincoln

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.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12] 370 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Webb. Extensive black ink gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise a crisp, clean copy with some spotting to top edge. Price-clipped jacket..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. [James Bond Novel] 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, a...... More
London: Penguin / Hodder / Vintage 2009, 2012, 2014. [Spy Fiction] Three volumes, octavo (20 x 13cm). FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITIONS, with a strikeline 10 through to 1. A group of three recent James Bond paperbacks. Publisher's photographic card covers, two with embossed titles. Gently read, minor toning to paper..... More
Jonathan Cape, 2013. Octavo. Original black goatskin with debossed bullet holes, marbled endpapers, edges red, silk bookmarker. Housed in original matching screen-printed black cloth slipcase. In original paper wrapping with limitation label applied. A fine copy. First edition, signed limited issue, number 70 of 100 copies signed by the author..... More
Jonathan Cape, 2013. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in black, front cover blocked in white, black and yellow, red edges, red endpapers. With dust jacket. Waterstones bookmarker loosely inserted. A fine copy. First edition, first impression, special issue for Waterstones, distinguished from the regular first edition by its red..... More