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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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![Solo [A James Bond Novel]. William BOYD, born 1952](/pictures/thumb/45559.jpg?v=1584799443)
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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Solo [Waterstones Special Edition].
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
Complete set of the official James Bond 007 novels in hardback. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories), Colonel Sun, James Bond and the Spy Who Loved Me, James Bond and Moonraker, Licence Renewed, For Special Services, Icebreaker, Role for Honour, Nobody Lives Forever, No Deals Mr Bond, Scorpius, Win, lose or Die, Licence to Kill, Brokenclaw, The Man from Barbarossa, Death is Forever, Never Send Flowers, Seafire, Goldeneye, Cold, Zero Minus Ten, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Facts of Death, The World is Not Enough, High Time To Kill, Doubleshot, Never Dream of Dying, The Man with the Red Tattoo, Die Another Day, The Union Trilogy, Choice of Weapons, Devil May Care, Carte Blanche, Solo, Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day.
London: Jonathan Cape, Hodder and Stoughton, Armchair Detective Library, Viking, Pegasus, Penguin and Orion Books, 1968-2022. [James Bond] THE COMPLETE JAMES BOND. Forty-nine volumes, octavos. All being UK hardcover editions in jackets, bar the two Raymond Benson collections which are softcover originals (no hardbacks issued). The Fleming titles published by..... More
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