Biographies and Reference
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
James Bond Encyclopaedia.
London: Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 2015. [Film Reference] Illustrated quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.320. Revised edition. Includes a foreword by the James Bond film producers Michael G.Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. With photographs throughout. Hand-bound in half blue oasis morocco with raised bands to spine, gilt titles, matching cloth sides, publisher's original..... More
James Bond in the Cinema.
Cranbury, NJ: A.S. Barnes and Co, 1972. [Bond on film] FIRST US EDITION, being published in a larger format than the UK equivalent. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.176. Illustrated throughout with great stills, mostly provided by United Artists. Publisher's grey hardcovers cloth, titles in black to spine. Pictorial dust-jacket with..... More
The Rolls-Royce Twenty.
Abingdon, Oxon: Burges & Son, for John M. Fasal., 1988. [Motoring] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.560; [2], blank, illustrated throughout. Second Edition. Publisher's blue cloth in glossy photographic dust-wrapper. A fine copy. A comprehensive history of the Rolls-Royce marque. From the comprehensive James Bond archive assembled..... More
The Sports Car Development & Design. Drawings by John Dunscombe
London: Batsford, 1957. [Motoring] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.224, illustrated with black & white plates. Publisher's hardcovers in dust-wrapper priced at 25s. Very good in like wrapper with some chips and tears. A history of the sports car and their manufacturers including Mercedes, Bentley, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming; [together with] James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007. The Life consisting of three book-form editions and two magazine appearances: as James Bond alias Ian Fleming [in: Life Magazine, vol. 61, nos. 15-16, 7 & 14 October 1966] and as James Bond's Last Victim [in: Reader's Digest, vol. 93, no. 556, August 1968].
Jonathan Cape; Pan Books; Reader's Digest Association; and Time Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois, 1966-68. 6 volumes. Proof copy in wrappers with dust jacket; first edition hardcover with jacket; others in wrappers. With many half-tone illustrations from photographs. Proof with creasing to spine and spotting to edges; first edition with rubbing to..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming [2 volumes with variant jackets]. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrappers. The earliest jacket has silver lettering to spine with turquoise author's name and imprint; later versions feature gold lettering and a darker blue blocking. A publisher's sample..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming [2 volumes with variant jackets]. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrappers. The earliest jacket has pale gold lettering to spine with turquoise author's name and imprint; later versions feature regular gilt lettering and a darker blue blocking. A...... More
The Life of Ian Fleming, appearing in Life Magazine (two issues, complete).
New York: Time, Inc., [1966]. [Literary Biography] Pp.134; 146. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps, with photographs throughout. Original price: 35c. each. With the memorable fold-out cover photograph of Ian Fleming at the wheel of Bond's supercharged 4.5 litre 'Blower' Bentley. Fragile magazines with some expected handling and light wear..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 36s. No inscriptions, some light handling, short tear at crown of wrapper. Near fine. An informative first-hand biography of James Bond's creator, written by a...... More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 36s. Discreet signature to flyleaf, jacket with a couple of neat tears to rear plus the usual laminate shrinkage at joints. Still a presentable, near..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Attractively bound in black half calf over cloth sides blocked with 'Golden Eye' motif, top edge gilt. Contents clean, a few light marks to covers and page edges; near fine. John..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming. Creator of James Bond.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Attractively bound in black half calf over cloth sides blocked with 'Golden Eye' motif, red endpapers, top edge red. Contents clean, a little browning to fore edge, small mark to topstain..... 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
Ian Fleming's James Bond. Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's James Bond.
Bloomington: Authorhouse, 2006. [Reference book] Illustrated quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.449; [5]. Publisher's typographic softcovers. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's file copy with his pencilled notes, used extensively as a working copy with associated handling and use. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize..... More
The Saturday Book 15.
London: Hutchinson & Company, 1955. [Literary annual / the arts] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.276. With photographic plates. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial p/c dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping. Very good in a used jacket, chipped to spine ends and extremities. A book of the arts, with..... More
James Bond. Did He Really Live Twice?
UK: Domino Books, 1988. [James Bond reference] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. A paperback original. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.130; [4], blank. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, priced £6.95. With non-specific inscription to title page; Hope you enjoy it / John D. Bryan //. A fine, as-new copy. Described as a 'literary detective story'..... More
James Bond. Did He Really Live Twice?
UK: Domino Books, 1988. [James Bond reference] FIRST EDITION. A paperback original. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.130; [4], blank. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, priced £6.95. A fine, as-new copy. Described as a 'literary detective story', this is an unusual piece of Bondiana. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler..... More
The Far Eastern Trilogy: The Pagoda Tree; The Midnight Gun; Hour of the Dog.
London: Collins, 1979; 1981; 1982. [Historical Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS WITH LETTERS. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.322; pp.336; pp.346. Volume I signed by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate to fly-leaf, and with a loose autograph letter signed by the author on headed..... More
Ian Fleming: The Notes.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2020. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, limited issue (this copy no. 55 of 100 copies). SIGNED by the editor Fergus Fleming, to his introduction, p.9 (not called for). With publisher's erratum slip. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.375; [1], blank. Bound in dark-blue Plike paper-covered boards, red endpapers..... More
James Bond, the Authorised Biography. A fictional biography by John Pearson.
London: Century, 1973. [Fictional biography] FIRST CENTURY EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 339; [5], blank. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. A fine copy. Attractive hardcover reissue of this first-person biography of the fictional agent James Bond, first published in 1973. Although the canonical nature..... More
James Bond, the Authorized Biography of 007. A fictional biography by John Pearson.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1973. [Fictional biography] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 317; [3]. Publisher's black cloth with red endpapers and red top edge, in glossy dust-wrapper priced at £2.75. Contents clean, a few very small marks to exterior, price clipped. A fresh, near fine example. A...... More
James Bond, the Authorized Biography of 007. A fictional biography by John Pearson [three paperback copies].
London & New York; Pan Books, Grafton and Grove Press, 1975-1986. [Fictional biography] FIRST EDITIONS thus, being the first Pan paperback, the first Grafton edition and the first Grove Press version. 3 vols. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. Minor handling, reading creases to Pan copy. Very good to fine. From the comprehensive..... More
James Bond, the Authorized Biography of 007. A fictional biography by John Pearson [two hardback copies].
London & New York: Sidgwick and Jackson, Morrow, 1973. [Fictional biography] FIRST EDITIONS thus, being the first UK edition and the first US edition. 2 vols. Bibliographer's copies. Publisher's hardcovers in dust-wrappers. Near fine examples (some spotting and sunning to the British edition). From from the comprehensive archive of James..... More