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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.
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Restless.
London: Bloomsbury, 2006. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 325 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Murray, | all good wishes | William Boyd.' Publisher's black cloth with red titles to spine and red endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... 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
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