James Bond 007
You Only Live Twice (rare paperback jacket).
London: Pan Books, 1965. [James Bond novel] FIRST EDITION in paperback, for export only - marked 'Not for Sale in UK' on rear panel. This example with the PROMOTIONAL DUST-JACKET described in the bibliography. Slim octavo, pp.190; [2], advertisements. Bound in pictorial card covers ('scorpion' design), in film-tie in jacket..... More
Zero Minus Ten. Tomorrow Never Dies. The Facts of Death. High Time to Kill. The World Is Not Enough. Doubleshot. Never Dream of Dying. The Man With The Red Tattoo. Die Another Day (Complete James Bond novels).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997-2002. [Spy novels] FIRST EDITIONS. A COMPLETE SET of the entire series of Raymond Benson's James Bond novels. Nine volumes, octavos, approx 24 x 24 x 16cm. Publisher's hardcover cloth in illustrated dust-jackets. Housed in an archival fleece-lined slipcase. No inscriptions or price clipping. All volumes..... More
James Bond: Licence to Kill. Signed Limited Edition.
New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1989. [Film novelisation] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, no.46 of just 100 copies. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; iv; 294; [2]. Limitation leaf on grey paper stock. Publisher's de luxe binding of plum-coloured cloth with gilt trim and pictorial illustration, grey endpapers, in burgundy cloth slip-case..... More
You Only Live Once. Memories of Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.142. With a suite of eight black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.50. A crisp, fine copy (many went to libraries). To..... More
Colonel Sun. A James Bond Adventure.
Jonathan Cape, 1968. Octavo. Original green wrappers, lettered in black, decorated with white publisher's motif. With dust jacket. Housed in custom blue quarter morocco solander case. A very good copy, spine creased and lightly stained, otherwise in good condition for a proof copy, in like dust jacket, edges rubbed and..... More
Solo.
Jonathan Cape, 2013. Octavo. Original black goatskin with debossed bullet holes, marbled endpapers, edges red, silk bookmarker. Housed in original matching screen-printed black cloth slipcase. In original paper wrapping with limitation label applied. A fine copy. First edition, signed limited issue, number 70 of 100 copies signed by the author..... More
Casino Royale.
London: Bentley 007 / Vintage Books, 2013. [Thriller] SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION by Bentley Motors. BIBLIOGRAPHER'S COPY. No.386 of 500 copies, with a new introduction from racing legend Sir Stirling Moss. Octavo, hardcovers, all edges silver, housed in a deluxe leather clamshell with scarlet-coloured inner trays. With brush style illustrations..... More
The Living Daylights. [In: Sunday Times colour section, 4 February 1962. Issue 1, pp. 23-32.]
Thomson Newspapers Limited, 1962. Large magazine format. Illustrations throughout. A near-fine copy. Contains the first appearance in print (pre-book form) of this James Bond novella; with the signature of pop-artist Peter Blake on the contents page, who would later design the cover of a commemorative edition of From Russia, With..... More
Thunderball (1964). Large group of black & white promotional press photographs.
No place, No date [1965]. Film advertising stills. Twenty black and white borderless promotional photographs. Single weight photos including film stills and promotional images, each measuring 10 x 8 inches (one slightly trimmed). Includes some rarely seen candid images of 'Bond girls' Claudine Auger, Martine Beswicke and Molly Peters. Clean..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.75 of 950 copies, with publisher's compliments slip inserted, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Type set in Eric Gill's Pilgrim and..... More
'You Only Live Twice' (released through United Artists). Six original photographs for 'Cinema 66' magazine.
n.d. [25th August 1966]. Six original black and white photographs of Sean Connery as James Bond, taken on location in Japan during the filming of Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice. Three photos capture a relaxed Connery in full Japanese costume, in between takes. The other three photos were taken..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's copy, with his printed notepaper and provenance label loosely inserted. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark brown cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping priced at 16s...... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, State B. Crown octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221; [1]. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced 15s. Scarce VARIANT ISSUE with the dropped spacer within the author's name. From the bibliography, 'very rarely..... More
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine. In dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping. A near fine copy in similar wrapper with one area of browning..... More
Thunderball (1964). UK Film advertising stills. Large group of black & white photographs.
No place, No date [1965]. Nineteen black & white photographs, all with white borders and printed captions to the lower margin, comprising individual frames taken from the movie, posed promotional portraits, one title-card style image of the Averado Cirello poster artwork and another of Frank McCarthy's artwork. Nine originals from..... More
Live and Let Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, Second Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240; [2], blank. Original black cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt-embossed coin motif to upper cover, lettered in gilt to the spine. No inscriptions, contents clean and fresh, very slight toning to page edges, gilt a touch..... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, State B. Crown octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221; [1]. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced 15s. Scarce VARIANT ISSUE with the dropped spacer within the author's name. In this particular example it..... More
Goldfinger.
New York: Macmillan [Printed and bound in Great Britain], 1959. [Spy thriller] FIRST US EDITION with the EARLIEST STATE of the jacket. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.318. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with 'skull' design stamped to upper, in original pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping, with front flap..... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 [actually issued October 1961]. [James bond novel] UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the First Edition. Softcovers, octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.221. Publisher's green wraps, with titles printed in black. Moderately handled, Some rubbing to joints, very good. Only 500 copies were issued. The proof features several differences..... More
'The Living Daylights' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'The Sunday Times Colour Section', 4th February 1962, inaugural issue (although not stated).
London: Thomson Newspapers Ltd., 1962. Pp.39. Newspaper supplement format, illustrated, with colour-printed covers. 'The Living Daylights' appears on pages 23–32, with an illustrated title piece. It is the first publication of this James Bond 'novelette', and also the first illustrated edition. An important printing. Some very light handling; fine. This..... More
Goldfinger (1964). Four original oversized black & white film stills.
No place, No date [1964]. [Film Promotion] Large vintage double weight borderless press photographs, each measuring 12 x 16 inches (most press photos being the regular size 8 x 10 inches). Images feature James Bond (Sean Connery), Goldfinger (Gert Frobe), Oddjob (Harold Sakata) and Nadja Regin (Bonita). Very good or..... More
[The Millennium series:] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; The Girl in the Spider's Web; The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye; The Girl Who Lived Twice [together with] My Friend Stieg Larsson.
London: MacLehose, 2008-2019. [Crime novel series] FIRST UK EDITIONS, Larsson's trilogy originally published by Norstedts Förlag in the Swedish language (2005-7), Lagercrantz titles are all UK SIGNED limited editions by Goldsboro. 7 volumes, octavo. Publisher's hardcovers of various colours, with photographic dust-jackets. No inscriptions, contents clean. Showing a little minor..... More
The Far Eastern Trilogy: The Pagoda Tree; The Midnight Gun; Hour of the Dog.
London: Collins, 1979; 1981; 1982. [Historical Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS WITH LETTERS. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.322; pp.336; pp.346. Volume I signed by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate to fly-leaf, and with a loose autograph letter signed by the author on headed..... More
Diamonds are Forever.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, second printing, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.257; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth titled in silver, pictorial dust-wrapper by Pat Marriott priced at 13/6. Book and jacket are both near fine, showing some careful use/handling. Jon Gilbert's file copy, with his..... More
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. [Espionage novel] Eighth printing. Vintage hardcover reprint, bibliographer's copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Desmond Llewelyn. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.318. Publisher's dark grey cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. With presentation note to flyleaf; To John / with best wishes / Desmond Llewelyn (underlined) / Q / Major..... More