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The Property of a Lady (a James Bond story) [THE IVORY HAMMER].
New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (Printed in Great Britain by Percy Lund), 1964. US issue, from the UK sheets. First (and only) printing. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.254. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy in price-clipped wrapper, with a little laminate wear to the foot... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Pan Books, 1967. FIRST UK EDITION in paperback. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.172; [4], advertisements. Pictorial card softcovers with original price of 3/6 to rear (also priced for export to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). Trivial handling to covers. Near fine with some inevitable and expected toning to... More
Thunderball (A James Bond Novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254. Elegantly bound in half black calf over original cloth sides, blocked in blind with skeleton hand motif, spine gilt-titled in six compartments with traditional raised bands. A few minor marks within; binding is fresh. 'Thunderball' is one of the... More
Thunderball.
London: Pan Books, 1963. FIRST EDITION in paperback. Slim octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.234; [6], advertisements. Pictorial card wrappers with the classic die-cut bullet hole design by Raymond Hawkey. Some expected toning/browning to paper, minor spine roll, moderate handling and wear to covers, some soiling to rear panel. Shows well... More
You Only Live Twice
London: Jonathan Cape. 1964 [actually issued late 1963]. An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. In printed green wrappers and the pictorial dust-jacket, stamped 'Proof Only' etc. on the inside front flap, with minor variations to the blurb on the rear flap over the published version. A fine copy... More
You Only Live Twice
New York: New American Library 1964. FIRST US EDITION. Pp.240. Publisher's yellow hardback cloth binding with unfaded red topstain, red endpapers, pictorial dustjacket. Page edges a little dusty, jacket shows some handling, a few marks to spine. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Very good. The last title in what has become... More
You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Elegantly bound in green calf over matching cloth sides, with gilt titles and raised bands to spine. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. The last title in what has become known as the 'Blofeld' trilogy. This... More
You Only Live Twice.
New York: Signet Books, July 1965. The true first paperback edition. Signet Books' series P2712. Pp.160. Publisher's illustrated softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel, all edges tinted red. Pages a little tanned as expected, some acceptable creases and wear, minor scuffs. A very good copy. Published simultaneously with... More
The Man With the Golden Gun (a James Bond novel)
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965 [actually issued late 1964]. Pp.221. PROOF copy in publisher's wraps. Some minor wear, joints a little rubbed, old tape mark to head of spine, some cockling; a very good copy housed in a morocco-spined clamshell box. Ian Fleming wrote one James Bond novel each winter in... More
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The Property of a Lady (a James Bond story) [THE IVORY HAMMER]
London, Longmans and Co. 1963. Quarto. Publisher's red cloth in jacket. Contains the first appearance of the James Bond story 'The Property of a Lady', by Ian Fleming. This did then not appear in book form until it was included in the first paperback edition of Octopussy, (1967). Was not... More
Thrilling Cities.
Jonathan Cape, London, 1963. First Impression, First State. DEDICATION COPY, signed by the author. Pp.223. Publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt to the spine, black endpapers, top edge stained black. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Paul Davis. Illustrated with photographic plates, and with erratum slip tipped... More
You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel)
London: Jonathan Cape. 1964 [actually issued late 1963]. An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. In printed green wrappers and the pictorial dust-jacket, stamped 'Proof Only' etc. on inside front flap, with minor variations to the blurb on rear flap over the published version. A fine copy of the... More
'The Hildebrand Rarity' contained within 'The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader'.
London: Souvenir Press, 1966. FIRST UK EDITION. Hardcover anthology of commentary, satire, fiction and interviews originally appearing in Playboy magazine. Pp.876; [2], blank. Hardback (24 x 18cm). Oatmeal-coloured cloth with 'bunny' motif blocked to the front in brown with titles to the spine, without the plastic jacket. A James Bond... More
Contribute 'A Golfing Nightmare' and 'The Terrible Dr. No' to Encore; The Sunday Times Book, Second Year. Edited by Leonard Russell.
London: Micheal Joseph. 1963. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. Pp.406. Publisher's red cloth with original pictorial dust-jacket. Lightly worn, spine of jacket frayed at head and tail; near fine. A particularly nice copy A collection of outstanding articles contributed to the Sunday Times, this is the FIRST EDITION in book-form. Ian... More
The Complete James Bond Omnibus Series. Volume 001-006.
London: Titan Books, 2006-2014. Ian Fleming's James Bond; the original comic strips as adapted and serialised in the Daily Express by Anthony Hern, Henry Gammidge, Peter O'Donnell and Jim Lawrence, illustrated by John McLusky, Yaroslav Horak and Harry North. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes, quarto (24 x 19cm). Bound in... More
'Goldfinger' (Greatest James Bond Thriller) contained within 'Saga' magazine for men. Volume 28, Number 4, July 1964.
New York: McFadden-Bartell Corp. 1964. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 25 cents. Minor wear to foot of spine, some ink notation to margin of first advert. Near fine. Minor wear to foot of spine, some ink notation to margin of first advert. Near fine. A condensation of... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SECOND STATE, BINDING D. Pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with bronze lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. Price clipped else a beautiful fine copy; remarkably fresh. A previously unrecorded... More
'Operation Thunderball' contained within 'Now and Then' Magazine. No. 107, Spring, 1961.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1961. Pp.24. Price 9d. Magazine format, stapled. A couple of ink splashes to fore-edge else fine. 'Operation Thunderball' appears on page 7, being a pre-book-form printing of the letter which sets in motion SPECTRE's operation. This is an excerpt from the 'Fasten Your Lap-Strap' chapter of... More
Showcase presents Doctor No.
March-April 1963. DC Comics, National Periodical Publications, Inc., Sparta Illinois. 1963. Published as issue 43 of the Showcase anthology series by DC Comics, with artwork by Norman Nodel. The front inside cover shows five stills from the United Artists film adaptation, and the rear inside cover prints a biography of... More
'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961.
Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. 1961. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. Minor wear to spine and postal label to upper else fine. The novel 'Thunderball' is advertised on the front cover as an 'extra book bonus' and appears on pages 128–44, with a.... More
The Life of Ian Fleming Creator of James Bond
London: Pan Books Ltd 1967. Paperback. First edition thus. Octavo, pp.416, with illustrated softcovers and photographic plates within. Cheap paper stock toned as expected, some dustiness otherwise a lovely near fine copy of 'an essential biographical volume' (Gilbert). BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. More
Zero Minus Ten (a James Bond novel).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. FIRST EDITION. Original hardback cloth in a pictorial dust-wrapper. With publisher's bookplate SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. loosely inserted no inscripotions or price-clipping. A fine copy. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 613. More
Zero Minus Ten (a James Bond novel).
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1997. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Royal octavo, pp.x; 257; [3], blank. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. A used example with some shelfwear and a reading lean, text block toned, endpapers neatly replaced, jacket a little creased and handled. The author's first James Bond novel... More
Birds Of The West Indies.
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philaelphia: Printed at the Waverley Press, Baltimore January 1936. FIRST EDITION. Pp.456. Publisher's gilt stamped green buckram with 'small' imprint lettering blocked to spine. With sepia map of the islands, colour frontispiece, and many illustrations throughout. Internally fine; discreet name to back of map... More
"Live and Let Die" (Released through United Artists)
England 1973. ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT WITH FINE ASSOCIATION. A complete production-used script by Tom Mankiewicz and directed by Guy Hamilton, Eon Productions Ltd, October 2nd 1972. 120pp mimeographed typescript, orig embossed green covers, copy of Victor Joseph Heutschy (died 2011) film and TV publicist with his name in ballpoint at... More