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The Man With the Golden Gun.
New York, NY: The New American Library, 1966. [Spy novel] Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 183 [1]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and blue leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge blue; fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket in grey, titled in dark blue..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Thriller] FIRST ISSUE, Second state, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. A very good copy with a little..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Queen Anne Press, in association with Adrian Harrington, [2022]. [Spy novel] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.200. Publisher's saddle brown hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with the author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers. New book. Strictly limited to one copy per customer. One of..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, scarce second issue with WHITE ENDPAPERS instead of the usual green. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with bronze lettering to spine, plain covers, white endpapers, original illustrated jacket by Richard Chopping priced at 18s. Faint mark to..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Thriller] FIRST ISSUE, Second state, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 18s. No inscriptions. Some tape..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. FIRST ISSUE, Second state, Binding 'D'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark grey/brown cloth-effect paper (Fabroleen) over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced at 18s. Owner name to flyleaf..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Thriller] FIRST ISSUE, Second state, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering to the spine (twice as scarce as bronze lettering), plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced..... More
The Man With The Golden Gun.
London: Foyles [The Book Club], no date [1966]. [Spy thriller] FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.152. Publisher's mid-blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by C H Richard. Price-clipped else fine. 70,000 copies were printed, a lower number than the Jonathan Cape..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 [actually issued late 1964]. [Spy thriller] An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. Softcovers, octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.221; [3], blank. Publisher's green wraps, with titles printed in black. In the Proof-Only dust-jacket. The jacket features some misprints and typographical or textual differences, most prominently..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Thriller] Third Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced at 18s. Owner name to pastedown, a few titles checked..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Thriller] FIRST ISSUE, Second state, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering to the spine (twice as scarce as bronze lettering), plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced..... More
Moonraker.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION, BINDING A (Fabroleen material). This version with 'shoot' correctly printed to page 10 (state B). Octavo, pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, titled in silver, in 'flame' design dust-wrapper by Kenneth Lewis priced at 10/6 to both front and rear flaps..... More
Moonraker.
London: Queen Anne Press, in association with Adrian Harrington, [2022]. [Spy thriller] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.296. Publisher's blood red hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers. New book. Strictly limited to one copy per customer. One of a...... More
Octopussy (James Bond short stories).
New York, NY: New American Library, 1966. [short adventures] American book club edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.121. Publisher's cloth in pictorial wrapper, white endpapers, twelve black and white illustrations plus vignette illustration to title page, pictorial dust-wrapper. Edges dusty, spine sunned. Near fine. The final original James Bond book..... More
Octopussy (James Bond short stories).
London: Queen Anne Press, in association with Adrian Harrington, [2022]. [Espionage adventures] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.232. Publisher's Oxford blue hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with the author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers. New book. Strictly limited to one copy per customer. One of..... More
Octopussy and the Living Daylights.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, BINDING A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.95. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards, blocked in silver, patterned grey endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping. Priced at £4.95 via publisher's label to flap. A clean, fine copy in a...... More
Octopussy and the Living Daylights.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Short stories] An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.95. Publisher's green wraps, with titles printed in black. Publication date 'June 1966' noted by hand to front cover, one minor proof correction in pencil. A clean, fresh copy, housed in a...... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 16s. Inscribed by the author to his close friend John Hayward; "To John..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. SIGNED BY IAN FLEMING and additionally INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE 'Sable Basilisk' (Robin de la Lanne Mirrlees). Second Impression. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. Very good indeed, with a little edge-spotting, neat reference number '1M' to flyleaf..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping. No inscriptions. A moderately used copy with some spotting to endpapers, boards mottled, jacket with some..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Queen Anne Press, in association with Adrian Harrington, [2022]. [Spy novel] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's Alpine white hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with the author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers. New book. Strictly limited to one copy per customer. One of..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Contents clean, brown mark to fore-edge, jacket a little dusty and soiled with a few small..... More
'The Perplexing Date Line' contained within 'Holiday' magazine. Vol 28, No.5, November 1960
Philadelphia, PA: Curtis Publishing Co. 1960. pp.226 Price 60 cents. Magazine format, colour illustrated covers. Some creasing/edgewear. Very good. Contains the first appearance of this Ian Fleming article, being the original full-length essay; it was cut and re-named 'Honolulu' when published as the fourth chapter of 'Thrilling Cities' (November 1963)..... More
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The Property of a Lady (a James Bond story) [THE IVORY HAMMER].
London, Longmans and Co. 1963. [James Bond] First printing. 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..... More
Showcase presents Doctor No.
Sparta, IL: DC Comics, National Periodical Publications, Inc., March-April 1963. [Comic book] 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..... More