Cranbury, NJ: A.S. Barnes, 1972. FIRST 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 striking colour wraparound artwork by Stefan... More

Time Inc., Chicago [1966]. 2 issues, price 35c per issue. Magazine format, illustrated, with fold-out poster covers. Address labels to upper (removed from second magazine). Near fine, sith some acceptable wear to spine of second magazine. Contains the first appearance of the opening chapters of Pearson's 'Life of Ian Fleming'... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.160. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to the spine in original dust-jacket illustrated by Denis Piper. Contents fine, page edges toned, jacket very lightly edgeworn, spine a shade toned/sunned, price-clipped. A clean... More

London: Jonathan Cape. 1957, FIRST EDITION, First Impression, Binding A, an ASSOCIATION COPY. Pp.253. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping. A used copy but with no significant defects; jacket darkened to spine, rubbed to joints with some chips and tears. Preserved in a clamshell... More

[Jonathan Cape, London] First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut [1953-66] 1980s-90s. 14 vols., small 8vo. Replica volumes in illustrated dust-wrappers. The complete set, all being absolutely fine copies (unopened), in the original pictorial card slip-cases; the entire set apart from the first volume is still preserved in the original shrinkwrap. Complete... More

McCall Corporation, May 1954. FIRST US APPEARANCE. Scarce American abridged publication of the second James Bond novel, appearing here nearly a whole year before the American book-form edition, and just one month after the UK Cape edition. This story can be found on pp88-128, printed in double columns. There are... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 16s. Very light spotting to top edge. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Near fine. Published... More

New York, NY: Perma Books, 1957. FIRST PRINTING. Paperback (17 x 11cm), pp.125; [1] advertisement. Publisher's illustrated card covers, all edges tinted red. Some very light rubbing and a couple of creases to corners otherwise a clean bright copy of a fragile book, housed in a custom-made gilt-titled cloth chemise... More

London: Jonathan Cape. 1955. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, BINDING B (Linson material). Publisher's black cloth, titled in silver, without jacket. This version is in the Linson cloth, which has a higher sheen and closer pattern/texture and is both described and illustrated on page 8 of the bibliography. Binding B also... More

London: Jonathan Cape. 1964 [actually issued late 1963]. An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. In printed green wrappers and the pictorial dust-jacket, stamped 'Proof Only' etc. on inside front flap, with minor variations to the blurb on rear flap over the published version. A fine copy of the... More

London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the editor. Illustrated quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.150. With black and white photographs. Publisher's hardback with dust-jacket. A fine copy. With autograph in blue ink to the title page. A most uncommon signature. Editor Simon Winder was the senior... More

London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. [Classic man-hunt adventure] FIRST EDITION, with later state/printing of the jacket. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 271; [1], imprint. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in white to spine, 'sniper' design dust-wrapper priced at 4/6 (earliest jackets were priced 7/6). Page edges are age-toned, fugitive-coloured cloth has... More