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[MOVIE POSTER] Never Say Never Again.
Nottingham UK: Lonsdale and Bartholomew, (1983). [Film promotion] Original UK Advance quad poster for the 1983 Warner Bros film starring Sean Connery as James Bond 007, with Kim Basinger, Barbara Carrera, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Max von Sydow as 'Blofeld'. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Folded, condition A (fresh), with some..... 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
The Saint In the Sun.
New York: For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., 1963. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Precedes the British hardcover. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.183; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardback with red titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $3.50. Some trivial rubs to jacket; a crisp, fine copy. Seven..... More
The Fly.
New York: Farrer, Straus & Giroux, 1965. [Modern literature/60s culture] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.291; [1], blank. Publisher's hardcover, top edge tinted blue, in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by the author. No inscriptions, contents clean, light wear along top edge of jacket. Near fine. A satirical melodrama in..... More
The Ipcress File.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. [Cold-War thriller] FIRST EDITION. With accompanying SIGNED letter. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's orange cloth in original dust-wrapper (without reviews) designed by Raymond Hawkey priced at 15s. A fine copy in near fine jacket with very light edge wear. TLS to a university don..... More
Devil May Care. Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming.
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 295; [7], Endmatter; [9], advertisements; [1], blank. Specially hand-bound in half red calf over matching cloth sides, red endpapers, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Illustrated dust-jacket and poppy-patterned endpapers preserved at rear. A fine..... More
Colonel Sun. A James Bond Adventure.
Jonathan Cape, 1968. Octavo. Original green wrappers, lettered in black, decorated with white publisher's motif. With dust jacket. Housed in custom blue quarter morocco solander case. A very good copy, spine creased and lightly stained, otherwise in good condition for a proof copy, in like dust jacket, edges rubbed and..... More
Nature Cure Explained.
London: Health for All Publishing Co., 1950. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[1-8] 9-185, [3]. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in with black, dust-wrapper priced 7/6 to spine and flap. Contents clean, small tear to cloth at crown, jacket lightly handled with a couple of small chips to..... More
'Berlin Escape' [The Living Daylights, a James Bond Spy Thriller, in] The New Golden Argosy. Volume 354, Number 6.
Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. June 1962. [Men's Magazine] FIRST US APPEARANCE. Magazine format (28 x 22cm), pp.144. The novella is advertised on the front cover and appears on pp.22-4, and pp.95-100, with a full-colour frontispiece illustration by Lou Feck. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 50c. Presented..... More
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Spy Thriller] Seventh printing, Bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.218; [2]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with red titles to spine and 'Heart' design to upper. With the pictorial green 'playing card' dust-jacket illustrated by Pat Marriott, priced at 16s. via Cape label. A...... More
Dr. No.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [James Bond adventure] Fifth Impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, silver titles to spine, with price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriott. Top edge dusty, contents clean, would be fine, but for some overly enthusiastic use of tape (probably to..... More
'The Guns of James Bond' contained within 'Sports Illustrated' Magazine Vol 16, No.11, 19th March 1962.
Chicago, Illinois: Time Inc., 1962. [James Bond Reference] FIRST US APPEARANCE. pp.84. Original price 25 cents. Magazine format, illustrated. Housed in an elegant custom-made gilt-titled black buckram chemise case. This issue contains the first American appearance of this original Ian Fleming feature entitled 'The Guns of James Bond', which not..... More
Live and Let Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, Third Impression, Jacket B. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240. Original black cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt-embossed coin motif to upper cover, lettered in gilt to the spine, correct dust-wrapper priced at 10/6 to front and rear. This is the correct jacket for..... More
Moonraker.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION, Fourth printing, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, lettered in silver to front cover and spine. Near fine, provided with a later plain brown paper jacket with printed labels, made for ready-reference purposes. Jon Gilbert's..... More
You Only Live Twice. [Variant wrapper with wide flaps].
London: Jonathan Cape. 1964. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION, First State, Binding A. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper ('Excelin') over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced at 16s. Some..... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 [actually issued October 1961]. [James bond novel] UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the First Edition. Softcovers, octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.221. Publisher's green wraps, with titles printed in black. Moderately handled, Some rubbing to joints, very good. Only 500 copies were issued. The proof features several differences..... More
To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.
London: The Bodley Head, 1964. [Anthology] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the first edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's printed buff wraps. Contents clean, covers slightly spotted, sunned to spine. Near fine. A rare proof; no other copies are currently listed online. Contains Ian Fleming's James Bond novella 'From A...... More
The Bond Affair.
London: MacDonald, 1966. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION in English. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.173; [3], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket inspired by the Raymond Hawkey 'James Bond' artwork, priced at 18s. No inscriptions, contents clean, minor spotting to top edge, fresh jacket with one short tear to rear..... More
Licence Renewed [James Bond series]. James Bond 007.
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1981. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.270; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper with original printed price (£6.50) to the front flap. With author's presentation note to title page; "To Eugene Spiers..... More
Attain By Surprise. Intelligence by Capture in WWII. The Story of 30 Assault Unit Royal Navy / Royal Marine Commando.
West Sussex: David Colver, 1997. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.258; [2]. With a suite of monochrome photographs. Publisher's softcovers priced at £7.99. Pencil ownership of bibliographer Jon Gilbert. One light reading crease to spine else fine. A rare title from a small, independent publisher. "You will find little record..... More
Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War.
London: Fisher Unwin, 1916. [Social psychology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.213; [1], Imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's mid-green cloth lettered and ruled in blind to front cover, blocked in gilt to backstrip. Edges spotted, light foxing within, small, neat owner name to paste-down, covers are rather fresh looking with..... More
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2014. [Film Autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.272. Number 2709 of 3000 copies, signed by the author to a tipped-in limitation page. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, sky blue endpapers, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, and a Hatchards' 'signed copy' wrap-around band and bookmark..... More
Shovelling Trouble.
London: Quartet Books Ltd., 1973. [Literary Essays] Uncorrected proof copy of FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.162, printed on rectos only. Publisher's printed softcovers. Low-grade paper toned as expected, hand-written publication date to cover, minor wear; near fine. Proofs are scarce. Mordecai Richler was a Canadian author, Academy..... More
Best Secret Service Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. [Anthology of spy stories] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's deep red cloth with titles in yellow to the spine, typographic dust jacket priced at 15s. With presentation note to the flyleaf; Peter & Rosemary / from / John Welcome / [underline]..... More