
Fleming Related Thrillers
Background to Danger.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. [Intrigue] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280; [1], blank; [1], advertisements; [2], blank. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in burgundy, pictorial jacket priced at $2.00. Edges of text block toned, ink ownership to flyleaf, jacket with a few chips and tears, clipped..... More
The Mask Of Dimitrios.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. FIRST EDITION. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Internally very clean with no ownership marks, bookplates or inscriptions. Covers are fresh but for a little sunning to spine, a few small marks and the..... More
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in Richard Chopping-esque pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Near fine but for an unfortunate production fault to p.105, where the leaf has snagged in the gutter (text perfectly legible once..... More
Romance of a Spy.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1945. Octavo, pp.192. Bound in publisher's green cloth, in a green pictorial dustjacket depicting characters from the book with a map. Advertisements to rear panel. Cloth in excellent condition with very limited signs of wear. Dustjacket creased with several minor losses, although colour remains very bright..... More
Founder Member.
London: Frederick Muller, 1969. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, Publisher's dark blue cloth, slight lean to spine, lovely fresh pages, fine. Photographic dustwrapper with a little wear to extremities and a few tiny scratches to the spine, near fine. A Boysie Oakes spy thriller written before Gardner's stint as the official James..... More
James Bond in Icebreaker.
New York: Putnam, 1982. [Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, AUTHOR'S PERSONAL SIGNED COPY. Octavo, pp.301; [3], blank. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper showing the original price of $10.95. Autographed by John Gardner to the title page with his manuscript note 'Author's Copy'. Gently sunned to spine else fine. The author's third..... More
James Bond in Role of Honor [Honour].
New York: G. P. Putman's Sons, 1984. [Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, AUTHOR'S PERSONAL SIGNED COPY. Octavo, pp.304. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper showing the original price of $11.95. Autographed by John Gardner to the title page with his manuscript note 'Author's Copy'. Jacket sunned to spine else fine. The author's..... More
James Bond in Scorpius.
New York: G. P. Putman's Sons, 1988. [Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, AUTHOR'S PERSONAL SIGNED COPY. Octavo, pp.319; [1], blank. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper showing the original price of $12.95. Autographed by John Gardner to the title page with his manuscript note 'Author's Copy'. Jacket gently sunned to spine, later..... More
Understrike.
London: Frederick Muller, 1965. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.198; [4], blank. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Mayne Butler. Minor dustiness, offset toning/browning to endpapers, jacket price clipped else clean and fresh. A near fine, bright example of the author's..... More
The Third Hour.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. [Thriller] ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, First US Edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 451 [5]. Publisher's yellow soft covers, titled in red with black illustrations. Internally clean, with some toning to spine, and fairly light general rubbing and bumping. A few small chips to..... More
On the Secret Service of His Majesty, The Queen. An Israel Bond Thriller.
New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1966. [James Bond pastiche] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.128. Publisher's colour softcovers with original price $1.00. A near fine copy. 'Hebrew Secret agent Oy-Oy-7 strikes again'. More
Child 44.
New York, NY and Boston, MA: Grand Central Publishing, 2008. [Crime Fiction] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 439 [1], blank. Publisher's hardcover with cartographic endpapers, photographic dust-jacket priced at $24.99. Sight toning; near fine (jacket is meant to appear distressed or worn). Soviet-era detective thriller, nominated for..... More