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The Hard Way. 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; 371 [3]. Number 79 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
No Middle Name. The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2017. [Thriller Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] viii; 418 [6]. Number 26 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles..... More
Nothing to Lose. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2016. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 407 [3]. Number 76 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
One Shot. 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; 376 [2]. Number 86 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
Persuader. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2014. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 342 [2]. 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 and..... More
Running Blind [aka The Visitor]
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 360. Number 93 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Without Fail.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 374. Number 85 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
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
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
The Lincoln Lawyer.
London: Orion, 2005. [Legal Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 404 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, with his FULL SIGNATURE, rather than the more familiar initials/hurried autograph. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the..... More
Sean Connery. The Measure of a Man.
London: Faber & Faber, 2010. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.340; [2], blank. With a suite of eight black & white photographic plates. Publisher's hardcovers, in illustrated dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Fine. Biography of the Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery (1930-2020), who portrayed Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond in seven..... More
Sean Connery. A Biography.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.291; [1], blank. With two suites of eight black & white photographic plates. Publisher's hardcovers, grey endpapers, in illustrated dust-jacket priced at £18.99. Fine. Biography of the Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery (1930-2020), who portrayed Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond..... More
Great Scot. The Life of Sean Connery.
London: Bloomsbury, 1993. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. ADVANCE COPY with publisher's press release. Octavo, pp.191; [1], blank. With a suites of twelve black & white photographic plates. Hardcovers in dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A fine copy. Scarce advance/review copy. Biography of the Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery (1930-2020), who portrayed Ian..... More
Sean Connery.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.160. With two suites of eight black & white photographic plates. Publisher's hardcovers in illustrated dust-jacket. A fine copy. Biography of the Oscar-winning Scottish actor Sean Connery (1930-2020), who portrayed Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond in seven films between 1962-1983..... More
Sean Connery.
London: Chapmans Publishers, 1992. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.192. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Publisher's hardcovers in photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99 to front flap. A near fine copy. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (ownership within). More
Sean Connery.
London: Chapmans Publishers, 1993. [Biography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.192. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Publisher's photographic softcovers. A near fine copy. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (ownership within). More
'Ian Fleming' contained within 'The Evening Colonnade'.
London: David Bruce and Watson, 1973. [Literary anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.519; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth binding in dust-jacket designed by Cecil Beaton priced £4.50. A clean, near fine copy. Cyril Connolly was a good friend of Ian Fleming and wrote one of the earliest James..... More