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James Bond 007
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
The Lincoln Lawyer.
London: Orion, 2005. [Legal Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 404 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A fine, as-new copy. Basis for..... 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
'Ian Fleming' contained within 'The Evening Colonnade'.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. [Literary anthology] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.569; [5], blank. Publisher's blue cloth binding in dust-jacket priced $15.00. Minor edge wear to jacket; near fine. Cyril Connolly was a good friend of Ian Fleming and wrote one of the earliest James Bond..... More
Cyril Connolly. The Life and Times of England's Most Controversial Literary Critic.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. [Literary biography] FIRST US EDITION, with strike-line '1'. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 466. Illustrated with photographic plates. Publisher's cloth, photographic jacket priced $27.95. A fine copy. A biography of the respected writer, critic and man-of-letters Cyril Connolly CBE (1903-1974). A friend of fellow..... 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
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
Storyteller. The Life of Roald Dahl.
London: Harper Collins / Harper Press, 2010. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, with strike-line '1'. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.655; [1], blank. Illustrated with three suites of eight photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, photographic jacket priced £25. A clean, fine copy. Biography of the award-winning children's author and screenwriter Roald Dahl..... 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
Ice Cold. Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War.
New York: Hachette / Grand Central Publishing, 2014. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, MULTI-SIGNED. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; [2]; 384; [4], blank. Publisher's blue and cream hardcover in illustrated dust-jacket priced at $25.00 to front flap. A fine copy. A first printing signed by both editors (who also provide a...... More
Carte Blanche. 'Bentley Edition' with engraved bullet and paper warpper.
London: Bentley 007 / Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. [Spy thriller] LIMITED EDITION by Bentley Motors, No.228 of 500 copies of their 'Red' edition (A 'white' binding was also issued, in a similar style but with a chrome box in the shape of a Bentley GT). Text printed in two colours..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. An as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A James Bond adventure set in Afghanistan and..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. A fine copy. A James Bond adventure set in Afghanistan and Dubai, written by..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. [James Bond Continuation] 'INDIES' SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Number 1025 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page, and hand-numbered. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil to spine and upper, and grey metallic..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. [Spy novel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. This copy has the publisher's original packing label and 'title embargo' notice..... More
Garden of Beasts. A Novel of Berlin 1936.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 404 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Low grade paper somewhat toned, with a little..... More
Garden of Beasts. A Novel of Berlin 1936.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 404 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Low grade paper somewhat toned, with a little..... More
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.304. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, red endpapers, top edge red, dust-wrapper displays a Paul Nash painting, priced at £4.95. With many photographic plates. Near fine. Deighton's acclaimed account of Germany's first major..... More
Action Cook Book. Len Deighton's Guide to Eating.
London: Penguin, Harper Perennial 1967 and 2009. [Gastronomy] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION, and HARDBACK REISSUE. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 24cm, and 14 x 21cm). Both volumes illustrated throughout. 1967 edition in publisher's photographic covers designed by Raymond Hawkey, reissue in with same artwork, adding a four-line quote from Michael Caine..... More
Basic French Cooking. Revised and Enlarged From Ou Est Le Garlic?
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. [Cookery] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (18 x 25cm), pp.222; [2], blank. Illustrated, with fifty cook-strips. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers blocked in gilt, photographic dust-jacket by Peter Williams priced at £4.95. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy. A thoroughly revised hardcover version of Deighton's 1965 cook..... More
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Battle of Britain [two copies].
London: Jonathan Cape / Coward McGann & Geoghegan, 1980. [Second World War] FIRST EDITIONS, UK & US issues. Small quartos (26 x 20cm), pp.224. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jackets; UK by Frank Wootton US by..... More
The Billion Dollar Brain.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Cold War thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and white braille design to upper. With the metallic-effect dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey priced at 21s. Book shows light handling only. Lightweight fragile jacket shows..... More