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Sean Connery. His Life and Films. With an Introduction by John Boorman.
London: W.H. Allen, 1983. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 290, with a suite of photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to the spine, photographic dust-jacket featuring a publicity shot of Sean Connery as James Bond, priced £8.95. No ink inscriptions, contents clean, lightly handled/read. Near..... More
Poems.
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. [Verse] FIRST EDITION, limited issue, number 94 of 200 copies, signed by the author. Slim small folio, pp.18; [2]. Printed on hand-press paper. Publisher's cloth-backed red paper boards, edges untrimmed. Decorative bookplate and ownership signature of Eve Fleming. Contents clean, boards shelf-worn. very good. Evelyn Beatrice..... More
Ian Fleming: Licence to Kill.
Endeavour Press, 2014. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.102; [4], blank. Colour-illustrated soft covers. As new. A shorter biography of novelist Ian Fleming. Author and historian Nigel Cawthorne also wrote A Brief Guide To James Bond and The Complete James Bond Dictionary. From the comprehensive James Bond..... More
Bond Bound. Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design
London: The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation 2008. [Bibliography / James Bond reference] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Illustrated Quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.166. Soft-bound in photographic wraps with integral flaps, die-cut with bullet holes to the front cover and rear flap. A fine copy. This issue with the matt red '007' logo..... More
James Bond, The Man and His World, The Official Companion to Ian Fleming's Creation.
London: John Murray, 2005. FIRST EDITION, with strike-like '1' present. Illustrated quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.250. Hand-bound in half burgundy oasis morocco with raised bands to spine, gilt titles, matching cloth sides, black endpapers, publisher's original cloth spine and dust-jacket preserved at the rear. A fine copy in an attractive..... More
James Bond, The Man and His World, The Official Companion to Ian Fleming's Creation.
London: John Murray, 2005. [Literary Reference] FIRST EDITION, with strike-like '1' present. Illustrated quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.250. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. Bound without the rear flyleaf (as they were issued). A fine, unread copy. Cited by Gilbert as a primary reference book on Ian..... More
James Bond, The Man and His World, The Official Companion to Ian Fleming's Creation.
London: John Murray, 2005. [Literary Reference] FIRST EDITION, with strike-like '1' present. Illustrated quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.250. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. Contents clean, jacket unmarked. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's reference copy, with pencilled comments to two post-it notes within. A fine copy. Cited by Gilbert..... More
Playback.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. [Crime fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 208. Publisher's red cloth in dust jacket priced at 12/6. No inscriptions. Contents clean, one mark to fore-edge, bright jacket is a little rubbed to spine tips, neatly re-touched to reverse side as show..... More
Licence To Thrill. A Cultural History of the James Bond Films.
London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. [Movie critique] NEW REVISED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 306. Publisher's illustrated card covers. A fine copy. First published in 1999, this is a revised version of an enlightening history of the James Bond movie franchise. The author, James Chapman, is a Professor of Film..... More
The River Watcher.
London: Collins, 1965. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 21s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some spotting to edges of text block and jacket panels, spine panel lightly toned. Very good indeed. A novel about poaching..... More
I'll Say She Does.
London: Collins, 1945. [Spy thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth, titles in blue to spine, with striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. Signed by the author, dated 1st July 1946. Lightly used; near fine. Ownership signature of Eileen M. Cond, a noted collector..... More
61 Hours. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 383 [3]. Number 8 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Blue Moon.
London: Bantam Press, 2019. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 404 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine, orange endpapers, and all edges cyan. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
The Enemy. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 393 [1]. Number 83 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Midnight Line.
London: Bantam Press, 2017. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 391 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. Blue endpapers and all edges blue. With the dust-jacket designed by Stephen Mulcahey, priced at £20. 'Signed..... More
Worth Dying For. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 384 [8]. Number 84 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Butterflies In Britain. Puffin Picture Book No. 29. Written & Lithographed by Richard Chopping.
London: Penguin Books Ltd. No date(circa 1940s). [Natural History] Oblong Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp32. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers designed by the author. Contents clean, light wear to covers, owner name to front, spine creased, with neat crack to head and tail. Very good. An early book..... More
The Fly [2 copies].
London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. [Modern literature/60s culture] FIRST EDITION, first printing, together with the second impression. Octavos, each (20 x 14cm), each pp.291; [1]. Publisher's hardcovers in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by the author. With several contemporary newspaper reviews tucked in. No inscriptions. Both near fine, with gentle toning to..... More
The Fly.
New York: Farrer, Straus & Giroux, 1965. [Modern literature/60s culture] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.291; [1], blank. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by the author. No inscriptions, contents clean, top edges dusty/spotted, some foxing to jacket. Very good indeed. A satirical melodrama in an office setting..... More
The Fly.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1965. [Modern literature/60s culture] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.288. Publisher's printed green softcovers. Pagination differs from the published book. Contents clean, spine gently toned and wrinkled, some wear to joints, cup ring to front panel; very good. A satirical..... More
The Ring [2 copies].
London: Secker and Warburg, Corgi, 1967, 1968. [Modern literature/60s culture] FIRST EDITION, first printing, together with the first paperback edition. Tow vols., octavos. Publisher's red hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by the author, priced 30s., and publisher's illustrated softcovers priced 5s. Lightly handled, minor spotting, expected toning to cheap paperback..... More
The Ring.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1967. [Modern literature/60s culture] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's printed tan softcovers. Contents clean, some light soiling to covers, ink note to rear. Very good indeed. The author's second novel, a frank portrait of the squalid side of..... More
The Visitors' Book. In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller.
London: Constable, 2017. [Biography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.392. With a suite of colour plate illustrations. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. As new. An account of Richard Chopping and his circle. 'Dickie' Chopping was the artist responsible for the memorable series of jacket designs which adorned Ian Fleming's James..... More
The Manipulator.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1967. [Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper, illustrated by Sean Connery, with his credit to the front flap. The book also has a printed dedication to Connery. A fine copy, with clipped signature in red ink..... 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