James Bond 007
The Visitors' Book. In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller.
London: Constable, 2017. [Biography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.392. With a suite of colour plate illustrations. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. As new. An account of Richard Chopping and his circle. 'Dickie' Chopping was the artist responsible for the memorable series of jacket designs which adorned Ian Fleming's James..... More
Signed Michael Chow Still from the film 'You Only Live Twice' (1967).
[James Bond Films] SIGNED STILL. One colour still from Lewis Gilbert's 1967 film, SIGNED by Michael Chow (Spectre 4) in blue marker. Mounted on white card ready to frame. Total dimensions 26 x 31cm. More
The Manipulator.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1967. [Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper, illustrated by Sean Connery, with his credit to the front flap. The book also has a printed dedication to Connery. A fine copy, with clipped signature in red ink..... More
Young Bond: Shoot To Kill.
London: Doubleday, 2014. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4]; 296; [1], Acknowledgements; [2], Map; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth boards blocked in silver, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced £12.99 to the rear panel. No inscriptions. A very good copy with a few small nicks to jacket..... More
Young Bond: Shoot To Kill.
London: Doubleday, 2014. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4]; 296; [1], Acknowledgements; [2], Map; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth boards blocked in silver, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced £12.99 to the rear panel. A gently read copy showing a little handling to the jacket. Very good..... More
Ian Fleming and James Bond: the Cultural Politics of 007.
Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. [Critique] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 281 [5]. With occasional black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. A lovely fine copy. An academic study of Ian Fleming and James Bond, with a foreword from Fleming's official biographer Andrew Lycett..... More
Sean Connery. The Measure of a Man.
London: Faber & Faber, 2010. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.340; [2], blank. With a suite of eight black & white photographic plates. Publisher's hardcovers, in illustrated dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Fine. Biography of the Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery (1930-2020), who portrayed Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond in seven..... More
Sean Connery. A Biography.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.291; [1], blank. With two suites of eight black & white photographic plates. Publisher's hardcovers, grey endpapers, in illustrated dust-jacket priced at £18.99. Fine. Biography of the Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery (1930-2020), who portrayed Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond..... More
Great Scot. The Life of Sean Connery.
London: Bloomsbury, 1993. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. ADVANCE COPY with publisher's press release. Octavo, pp.191; [1], blank. With a suites of twelve black & white photographic plates. Hardcovers in dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A fine copy. Scarce advance/review copy. Biography of the Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery (1930-2020), who portrayed Ian..... More
Sean Connery.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.160. With two suites of eight black & white photographic plates. Publisher's hardcovers in illustrated dust-jacket. A fine copy. Biography of the Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery (1930-2020), who portrayed Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond in seven films between 1962-1983..... More
Sean Connery.
London: Chapmans Publishers, 1992. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.192. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Publisher's hardcovers in photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99 to front flap. A near fine copy. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (ownership within). More
Sean Connery.
London: Chapmans Publishers, 1993. [Biography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.192. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Publisher's photographic softcovers. A near fine copy. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (ownership within). More
'Ian Fleming' contained within 'The Evening Colonnade'.
London: David Bruce and Watson, 1973. [Literary anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.519; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth binding in dust-jacket designed by Cecil Beaton priced £4.50. A clean, near fine copy. Cyril Connolly was a good friend of Ian Fleming and wrote one of the earliest James..... More
'Ian Fleming' contained within 'The Evening Colonnade'.
London: David Bruce and Watson, 1973. [Literary anthology] FIRST EDITION, Uncorrected proof copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.519; [1], blank. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. A production-used copy, with loose notes inserted, heavily copy-edited throughout. With associated wear, spine rolled. Scarce. Cyril Connolly was a good friend of Ian Fleming and..... More
The Missing Diplomats.
London: The Queen Anne Press, 1952. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.50; [1], blank; [1], imprint. Bound in stiff white card covers with title label to upper, yellow dust-wrapper printed in red and black. Jacket a little toned to spine, panels spotted. Very good. Contemporary account of the..... More
James Bond Encyclopaedia.
London: Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 2015. [Film Reference] Illustrated quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.320. Revised edition. Includes a foreword by the James Bond film producers Michael G.Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. With photographs throughout. Hand-bound in half blue oasis morocco with raised bands to spine, gilt titles, matching cloth sides, publisher's original..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Adventures. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2011; 2012; 2013. [Children's Adventure Sequels] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED by the author in first book. Three volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 216 [2]; pp.[6] 234; pp.[6] 293 [5]. Frequent in-text illustrations by Joe Berger. SIGNED by the author with a doodle in black marker..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2012. [Childrens adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 234. Illustrated by Joe Berger. Publisher's purple cloth hardcover blocked in gilt to the spine, endpapers illustrated in colour, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £10.99. A fine/as new, unread copy. A new adventure featuring Ian Fleming's..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time. Illustrated by Joe Berger.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2012. [Childrens adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author with his usual car doodle motif, additionally SIGNED by the illustrator Joe Berber, with an ORIGINAL DRAWING of Count Zborowski. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 234. Publisher's purple cloth hardcover blocked in gilt to the spine..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2011. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 216; [2], blank. Illustrated by Joe Berger. Publisher's red cloth hardcover blocked in silver to the spine, endpapers illustrated in colour, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £10.99. A fine, as new copy. Commissioned by Ian Fleming..... More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again.
Somerville, Ma: Candlewick Press, 2011. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 216; [2], blank. Illustrated by Joe Berger. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers, red endpapers, dust-wrapper priced at $15.99. A fine, as new copy. Commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications, this is the first in a series of..... More
The Letters of Noel Coward.
London: Methuen, 2007. [Literary correspondence] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.786. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, photographic jacket priced £25. Carefully used; a near fine copy. Letters of the flamboyant English playwright. Noel Coward was a close friend and neighbour of James Bond creator Ian..... More
Bond Girls are Forever.
London: Boxtree. 2003. [Film Referencel] FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 26cm). Pp.192. A glossy photo book in black cloth with photographic dust-wrapper. A clean, crisp, fine copy (these heavy photographic books often show wear). Author Maryam d'Abo, was the female lead in the 1987 film 'The Living Daylights'. From the..... More
Roald Dahl. A Biography.
London: Faber & Faber, 1994. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, with strike-line ending '1'. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 307; [1], blank. Illustrated with two suites of eight photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, photographic jacket priced £17.50. Minor toning to text block else fine. Biography of the award-winning children's author and..... More
Carte Blanche. 'Bentley Edition' with engraved bullet.
London: Bentley 007 / Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. [Spy novel] LIMITED EDITION by Bentley Motors, number 24 of 500 numbered copies of their 'White' edition, issued with a chrome box in the shape of a Bentley GT as featured in the novel (a 'Red' edition was also issued, without the..... More