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
The Bedside Guardian 14. A Selection from The Guardian 1964-5.
London: Collins, 1965. [Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, typographic pink dust jacket priced at 16s. Edges spotted, jacket sunned at spine. Very good. Annual literary collection, featuring an obituary of Ian Fleming (pp.109-111), originally published the day..... 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
The Battle for Bond: The Genesis of Cinema's Greatest Hero.
Sheffield: Tomahawk Press, 2007-8. ['Thunderball' film reference] FIRST EDITION [together with Revised Edition]. ASSOCIATION COPIES. Two volumes, octavos. Pp.264; pp.251, with photographs and reproductions of documents. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. Fine/as new copies. The Battle for Bond is the story of the much-discussed Thunderball dispute. In late February 2008, the book..... More