"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

London: Penguin Books, 2002. [James Bond] Hardcover collection. Complete in 14 volumes. Small octavo (41 x 18 x cm). Cloth-bound hardcovers in photographic dustwrappers by Toby MacFarlan Pond. A lightly handled set with some toning to edges. In near fine condition. All books collected here are free from the large Penguin price reduction ink stamp, which was often applied to the flyleaf. This was the first James Bond hardback published by Penguin Books, who held the publishing rights to the series for a decade. This edition was released simultaneously as a mass-market paperback, but these hardcovers were produced in very limited numbers (1000 copies only). Complete sets are particularly uncommon. Item #61285
Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography (2012).
Price: £1,250.00