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'Live & Let Die' announcement within 'Now and Then' Magazine. No. 90, Autumn 1953.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. [1953]. [Journal] Pp.24. Price 6d. Magazine format, illustrated. Fine. This issue contains an advance notice of Ian Fleming's second novel Live & Let Die, "which will be published next year, James Bond of the British Secret Service is again the hero" Gilbert A2a 'Advertising', p.63... More
'Casino Royale' advert within 'Now and Then' Magazine. No. 88, Spring 1953.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. [1953]. [Journal] Pp.24. Price 6d. Magazine format, illustrated. Staples rusted, two small ink 'x' marks to final page of ads. Near fine. This issue contains a portrait sketch of Ian Fleming (p.8) as used on the jacket of Casino Royale, also features an advert for the..... More
'Diamonds Are Forever' reviews contained within 'Now and Then' magazine, Number 97, Summer 1956.
London: Jonathan Cape. [1956]. [Journal] Pp.16. Price sixpence. Magazine format, illustrated. A fine copy. Publisher Jonathan Cape's literary magazine for the publishing industry, booksellers and the public alike. Contains two quotes from reviews of the latest James Bond novel 'Diamonds are Forever' (p.13), from the Birmingham Post and the Sunday..... More
'Operation Thunderball' contained within 'Now and Then' magazine, Number 107 Spring, 1961.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1961. [Journal] Pp.24. Price ninepence. Magazine format, illustrated. Publisher Jonathan Cape's literary magazine for the publishing industry, booksellers and the public alike. Contains the first separate appearance of S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s ransom letter sent to the Prime Minister, extracted from the novel 'Thunderball' (Chapter 1 'Fasten your lap-strap'..... More
'From Russia With Love' announcement contained within 'Now & Then' magazine, Winter 1956-7.
London: Jonathan Cape. [1956]. [Journal] (25 x 17 cm) pp.24. Price sixpence. Magazine format, illustrated. With folio colour advertisement for 'Books and Bookmen' tucked in. Near fine. Publisher Jonathan Cape's literary magazine for the publishing industry, booksellers and the public alike. Contains a paragraph in the 'News' section (p.21) which..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's copy, with a printed label loosely inserted. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some trivial wear..... More
Diamonds Are Forever.
[Taipei] Central Publishing Co., 1960s. [Thriller] Taiwanese Pirated edition, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.248. Bound in brown cloth hardcovers, titled in silver to the spine, with illustrated jacket design. The text in this copy reproduces the 1964 Pan paperback. The flame dust jacket artwork is adapted from the..... More
Thunderball.
[Taipei] Central Publishing Co., 1960s. [Thriller] Taiwanese Pirated edition, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.248. Bound in blue cloth hardcovers, titled in silver to the spine, with illustrated jacket design. Both the text and the dust jacket are reproduced from the first US edition published by Viking. Contents clean..... More
'The Hildebrand Rarity' contained within 'The Playboy Book of Crime and Suspense'.
London: Souvenir Press, 1967. [Mystery/Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION. An anthology of crime stories originally appearing in Playboy magazine. Hardback (24 x 18cm), pp.x; 405; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth clocked in red and silver to spine, red endpapers, top edge red, dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Bozzo. A near fine copy..... More
How to Play Your Best Golf All The Time.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. [Sport] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12]; 145; [3]. Illustrated by Lealand Gustavson. Printed in red and black throughout. Publisher's green cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 12/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions, later presentation label to flyleaf, old tape strip..... More
The Hired Killers.
London: W.H. Allen, 1964. [True Crime] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.185; [1], blank. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher's black cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. With the photographic dust-jacket with bold quote by Ian Fleming printed on the front panel. Contents clean, jacket lightly edge worn..... More
For Your Eyes Only.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. [James Bond short stories] FIRST EDITION. First Impression, Binding A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, lettered in gilt, pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping. No inscriptions or bookplates. Contents clean. A fine copy of the book, in a very good..... More
The Arms of Time, The Power of Chance, and Halfway To Heaven. A Memoir.
London: Hamish Hamilton, Sinclair-Stevenson, Sutton Publishing, 1979, 1991, 1998. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITIONS, three volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 6cm) pp.xii; 157 [1], pp.xii; 196, pp.xii; 163 [1]. Publisher's hardcovers in photographic dust-jackets, variously priced (first vol. p/c). No ink inscriptions, contents clean, crisp jackets (spine sunned to first title)..... More
The Property of a Lady [within] A Treasury of Modern Mysteries.
New York: Doubleday, 1973. [Thriller collection] FIRST EDITION thus. A Book Club-only publication. Two volumes, containing Ian Fleming's 1963 James Bond novella. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.463; 536. Bound in publisher's red and yellow cloth hardcovers, illustrated dust-jackets. Near fine in wrappers which are gently toned to the spine. Also..... More
A View To A Death.
London: Cassell, 1958. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.185; [3]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12s 6d. Contents clean. Library label and marking to endpapers, no stamps to text pages, edges speckled green, jacket is close to fine but for..... More
The Rolls-Royce Twenty.
Abingdon, Oxon: Burges & Son, for John M. Fasal., 1988. [Motoring] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.560; [2], blank, illustrated throughout. Second Edition. Publisher's blue cloth in glossy photographic dust-wrapper. A fine copy. A comprehensive history of the Rolls-Royce marque. From the comprehensive James Bond archive assembled..... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1962. [Espionage novel] FIRST US EDITION, second printing (stated), bibliographer's copy. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.211; [5], blank. Publisher's salmon-coloured cloth blocked in brown to spine, brown endpapers, tinted top edge, pictorial jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced at $3.95. A clean, fine copy..... More
Casino Royale.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. [Bond] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.176. Bound in original dark green cloth boards in the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leo Manso. Priced to the front flap ($2.75) but with both corners clipped, as was the publisher's method. This is either the..... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1962. [Espionage novel] Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.211; [13], blank. Publisher's vinyl-covered hardback with cream spine and red boards, white endpapers, top edge red, pictorial jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, bordered in green. A clean, fine copy, in a crisp jacket with a few..... More
Octopussy (James Bond short stories).
New York, NY: New American Library, 1966. [Short adventures] First American Printing being the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.121. Publisher's cloth in pictorial wrapper, mustard coloured endpapers, twelve black and white illustrations plus vignette illustration to title page, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at $3.50. A clean, fine copy..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Thriller] FIRST ISSUE, 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 (usual second state without gun motif), patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated..... 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. Edges very lightly..... More
You Only Live Twice.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, First State, Binding B, British export/colonial copy. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black Fabroleen cloth-effect paper [type 'A'] over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping. No inscriptions..... More
You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, third impression BINDING A, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's dark grey Excellin bookcloth over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers, dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 16s. Contents..... More
The Light's on At Signpost. Memoirs of the Movies, Among Other Matters.
London: Harper Collins, 2002. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 338. With two suites of black and white plates. Publisher's brown cloth hardcover, bronze titles, yellow endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Autograph of George Fraser in black ink to the title page. Signature obtained in person..... More