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Honor Blackman's Book of Self-defence.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. [James Bond Association] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.128. Liberally illustrated with black and white photographs by Worth. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Cameron Poulterl, priced at 18s. Jacket toned to spine, with rubbing, closed tears and..... More
The Night and The Music. The Matthew Scudder Stories.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Telemachus Press, 2011. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Limited to 100 copies. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 237; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. A collection of cases..... More
Birds of the West Indies.
London: Collins, 1960. [Ornithology] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256; [1], blank. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 35s. A few related ink notes to half title else contents clean. Used..... More
Nobody Lives Forever.
Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. [Crime thriller] FIRST MOTION PICTURE EDITION. Octavo (21x 15cm), pp.243; [3], blank. Two black and white photos as frontis plate. Publisher's red cloth blocked in grey, endpapers feature ten b & w stills from the movie, photographic dust-wrapper. Cheap paper toned..... More
The Shotgun History & Development.
London: A & C Black, 1985. [Firearms] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.240. With photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, original pictorial dust-jacket priced at £15. Some light handling, near fine. Geoffrey Boothroyd was a British expert on firearms who wrote several standard reference..... More
The Life of Samuel Johnson, including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides. By the Right Hon. John Wilson Crocker. A New Edition, Thoroughly Revised, With Much Additional Matter. With Portraits.
London: John Murray, 1900. [Literary biography] FINELY BOUND. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.874. Illustrated with engravings. Contemporary full red morocco by R. Grant & Son, Edinburgh, with raised bands, full gilt backs, seal of Fettes College stamped in gilt to upper, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of William John..... More
The Art of Bond.
London: Boxtree/Pan Macmillan, 2006. [Film design] FIRST EDITION. Square quarto (26 x 26cm), pp.240. Colour photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, black endpapers photographic dust-wrapper priced at £30rrp. Some trivial handling to jacket else a fine copy. Sub-titled 'From the storyboard to screen: the creative process behind the..... More
The Devil With James Bond.
London: Fontana Books, 1967. [Bond reference] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.126; [2], endmatter. Bound in pictorial card covers priced at 5s. to front. No owner names or writing. Usual toning to cheap paper. A near fine copy, with some inevitable sunning to the spine panel. A paperback..... More
The Devil With James Bond.
Richmond, Virginia: John Knox Press, 1967. [Bond reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.123; [5], blank. Bound in pictorial card covers priced at $1.75 Light handling and age-related toning. A near fine copy. A paperback original. An unusual piece of vintage Bondiana, 'for Bond lovers and Bond loathers'. This..... More
Solo [Waterstones Special Edition].
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. [James Bond Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.326. Publisher's red screen-printed hardcovers, red endpapers, embossed and die-cut dust-jacket, featuring bullet-holes in the style of the original US printing of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun (this adventure being set in 1969, a...... More
James Bond in the Cinema.
London: Tantivy Press, 1972. [James Bond Films] FIRST EDITION (UK version- the US Barnes edition is in a larger format). Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.176. Liberally illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Stephan Dreja, publisher's label obscuring..... More
Robert Brownjohn. Sex and Typography.
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2005. [art/design] FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.240. With colour photographs throughout. Publisher's metallic-effect photographic hardcovers priced at £25 R.R.P. Some inevitable light marks and scratches to the unprotected glossy covers otherwise a near fine copy. Rather scarce. A comprehensive narrative-catalogue of works from the influential pop artist..... More
You Only Live Once. Memories of Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.142. With a suite of eight black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth binding with original dust-wrapper, priced at £3.50. A used, ex-library copy, marked as such and with expected faults. Jacket has a shelf label to spine..... More
You Only Live Once. Memories of Ian Fleming.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. [Biography] Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.142. With a suite of 8 black and white illustrations. Publisher's pale blue cloth binding with original dust-wrapper. A lightly used, ex-library copy, with a few institutional markings. Despite the faults, a very good copy. This is the revised version..... More
You Only Live Once. Memories of Ian Fleming.
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984. [Biography] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.142. With a suite of 8 black and white photographs. Publisher's blue cloth binding with original dust-wrapper. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Jacket with minor edge wear and one chip to front panel. Near fine. The..... More
You Only Live Once. Memories of Ian Fleming.
Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984. [Biography] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.142. With a suite of 8 black and white photographs. Publisher's blue cloth binding with original dust-wrapper. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A crisp, bright, fine copy in similar jacket. The first American Edition, following the..... More
The Thirty-Nine [39] Steps.
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. [Espionage classic] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253; [1]; [2], publisher's advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in full dark blue calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt titles to upper cover, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A few light marks..... More
The Music of James Bond.
Oxford University Press, 2012. [Film soundtracks] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[x]; 293; [1], blank. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers, black endpapers, typographic dust-jacket priced $35.00. A fine/as new copy. John Burlingame throws open the studio and courtroom doors to reveal the extraordinary and occasionally controversial history..... More
John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.224. With a foreword by Maurice Sendak, and an introduction by Brian Alderson. Illustrated in colour throughout. Signed by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the..... More
John Burningham. An Illustrated Journey.
London: The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, 2011. [Catalogue raisonne] FIRST EDITION. Oblong quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.144. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's photographic softcovers. Fine / as new. Rather scarce. Works by the childrens author, designer, and illustrator of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (1964). A superb catalogue published on the occasion of the retrospective..... More
Not Forgetting James Bond.
UK: GBU Publishing, 2003. LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER, one of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author to the limitation plate. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.192, illustrated throughout. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver in glossy colour dust-jacket. A fine, as-new copy. 'Not Forgetting James Bond' is the autobiography of Syd..... More
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