Biographies and Reference
The Book Collector. Spring 2021. Edited by James Fleming.
Cirencester: The Collector Ltd., 2021. [Literary Journal] Vol. 70, No.1, Spring 2021. Octavo, with illustrations (some in colour). Bound in the publisher's purple-coloured softcovers with text printed in white and black. Trivial handling; fine. This number contains James Pickard's review of 'Ian Fleming and James Bond' by Jon Gilbert, SIGNED..... More
The Book Collector. Spring 2021. Edited by James Fleming.
Cirencester: The Collector Ltd., 2021. [Literary Journal] Vol. 70, No.1, Spring 2021. Octavo, with illustrations (some in colour). Bound in the publisher's purple-coloured softcovers with text printed in white and black. Trivial handling; fine. This number contains James Pickard's review of 'Ian Fleming and James Bond' by Jon Gilbert... More
'The James Bond Books of Ian Fleming: A Descriptive Bibliography' appearing in 'Firsts magazine' Volume 8, Number 11.
Firsts Magazine, Inc., Tuscson, Arizona November 1998. [Bibliographic journal] Magazine format, pp.76, pictorial covers. This illustrated article appears on pp.38–51, SIGNED by James M. Pickard. A fine copy. A most readable essay which contains much previously undocumented information; although some technical detail has since been expanded, this remains essential reading..... 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
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
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
Ian Fleming: The Book Collector.
London: The Book Collector / Queen Anne Press, 2017. Ten monographs, SIGNED LETTERPRESS EDITIONS, being the FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. 10 vols., slim octavo (26 x 18cm), limited variously to 60 or 120 copies, each hand-numbered and signed by James and Fergus Fleming. Finely printed on 150gsm Bockingford paper and bound..... More
Bond Behind the Iron Curtain.
The Book Collector, 2021. [Literary history] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.125; [2], advertisements; [1], blank. With sixteen illustrations, several in colour. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, hammer and sickle device to front board, black endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper. Signed by the author at Firsts London..... More
James Bond and Philosophy: Questions Are Forever.
Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2006. [James Bond reference] 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. A paperback original. Seventeen scholars examine hidden philosophical issues in the hazardous, deceptive and glamourous world of Double-0..... More
Hephaestus or the Soul of The Machine.
London: Kegan Pau,l Trench, Trubner & Co., [1925]. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.90; [6], blank; [8], ads. Publisher's brown hardcovers with printed title labels. Contents clean, some rubbing to covers. Very good. A scarce book. Hephaestus is the god of fire, the incarnation of the machine-age of..... More
Prometheus, or Biology and the Advancement of Man. Fore
London: Kegan Pau,l Trench, Trubner & Co., [1925]. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo, pp.94; [2], blank; [8], ads. Publisher's hardcovers in typographic dust-wrapper, priced 2/6. Pencil ownership of bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Fine, in slightly nicked jacket. Rare- no other UK copy currently listed. Fleming's own copy (signed, without jacket), sold for..... More
Birds of the West Indies.
Hatje Cantz, 2013. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.440. Illustrated with full-page captioned colour photographs throughout. Publisher's brown cloth in printed dust-jacket. A fine copy. From the comprehensive James Bond collection assembled by Jon Gilbert (with his pencilled ownership signature). His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian..... More
Ian Fleming The Book Collector. Edited by James Fergusson; Consultant Editor, Nicolas Barker.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. [Bibliography] LIMITED EDITION, number 115 of 150 copies SIGNED signed by Fergus Fleming (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press) and his brother James (publisher of The Book Collector), Ian Fleming's nephews. Additionally signed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. All three authors have written essays contained herein..... More
Ian Fleming The Book Collector. Edited by James Fergusson; Consultant Editor, Nicolas Barker.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. [Bibliography] DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, one of a handful of copies marked o/s (out of series) SIGNED by Fergus Fleming (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press) and his brother James (publisher of The Book Collector), Ian Fleming's nephews. Additionally signed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. All three..... More
Ian Fleming The Book Collector. Edited by James Fergusson; Consultant Editor, Nicolas Barker.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. [Bibliography] LIMITED EDITION, number 115 of 150 copies SIGNED signed by Fergus Fleming (co-publisher at Queen Anne Press) and his brother James (publisher of The Book Collector), Ian Fleming's nephews. Additionally signed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. All three authors have written essays contained herein..... More