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![Thrilling Cities [James Bond In New York]. Ian Lancaster FLEMING.](/pictures/thumb/52800.jpg?v=1544547183)
Thrilling Cities [James Bond In New York].
New York, NY: Signet Books, June 1965. [Travel] The true first paperback edition. Signet Books' series P2694. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.207; [1], advertisement. Publisher's illustrated softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel, all edges tinted red. List of Bond titles facing title page partly crossed through, light handling... 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, with the uncommon printed 'Statement' inserted. Publisher's black cloth with 'golden eye' motif to the upper cover, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrapper. A near fine copy of the book in a lightly... More
Casino Royale
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.218; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with red titles and 'heart' design to upper, tail edge untrimmed, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 10/ ; a restored, entry-level copy which at the time of writing... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. FIRST STATE of the First Issue, bound in Linson cloth with a large 'Gun' motif gilt-stamped to the front board, patterned green endpapers. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [1] blank. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. A very good copy with some faint... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Octavo (195 x 35mm), pp.288. Colour frontispiece of the author by Charles Amherst Villiers. Signed by Ian Fleming to limitation page marked 'presentation' Publisher's quarter vellum over black cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, in a original clear... More
The Man With the Golden Gun (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [actually issued late 1964] Pp.221. PROOF copy in publisher's wraps, in the Proof-Only dust-jacket. The jacket features some misprints and typographical or textual differences, most prominently the title and author's name being printed across the spine in bold black tea-chest type, which was removed for the... More
Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [James Bond Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, third issue. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.95; [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, repriced by the publisher to 16s / 80p with a sticker on the... More
Ian Fleming: A Catalogue of a Collection.
Liverpool: Privately Printed by the author. 1978. FIRST (and only) EDITION, SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Slim octavo. Pp.72. Publisher's glossy pictorial covers depicting the Fleming family coat of arms. Fine. A checklist of an Ian Fleming collection 'preliminary to a bibliography'. A useful guide now superceded by Ian... More
Ian Fleming. A Catalogue.
London: Adrian Harrington Ltd, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-9576041-0-0. Published April 2013 Softcovers, pp.80. With eight colour plate sections and numerous black and white illustrations within the text. A descriptive catalogue of rare Ian Fleming and James Bond-related material by the award-winning bibliographer Jon Gilbert. An as new/fine copy, signed. More
Ian Fleming. A Catalogue.
London: Adrian Harrington Ltd, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-9576041-0-0. Published April 2013. Numbered hardcover edition, limited to 100 copies, this being no.95. Pp.80. With eight colour plate sections and numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth, lettered to the spine and covers in gilt, with... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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. A crisp clean copy with a bright spine. Some minor chipping and bruising... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 [1961]. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, State A. Crown Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced a 15s. Slight reading lean. Some rubbing and marks to boards. Very light chipping and bruising to... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [1] blank. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt lettering to the spine, usual state with plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, price-clipped. Slight reading lean, some marks to... More
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.318. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with 'skull' design stamped to upper, in original pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 15s. Slight lean, a few faint marks to edges. Light bruising and chipping... More
You Only Live Twice.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, First State, Binding A. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers, in original pictorial dust-wrapper by Richard Chopping. With 'First Published 1964' on... More
Thunderball (A James Bond Novel).
London: Jonathan Cape. 1961. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., pp. 254. Publisher's black cloth with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine. In original dustwrapper. Some dustiness to edges else near fine in like, bright wrapper, SIGNED by Richard Chopping to the rear flap. More
The Facts of Death.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1998. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Raymond Benson's second novel. Hardback, bound in publisher's cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. Both the book and the jacket are absolutely fine/unread. Warehoused by ourselves since publication; this copy is as new. The hardcover versions were printed in tiny numbers (typically around... More
Thrilling Cities. With an Introduction by Jan Morris.
London: Ian Fleming Publications, 2009. [Travel book] FIRST EDITION thus, with a new introduction from the respected travel writer Jan Morris, CBE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.246. Publisher's hardcovers in pictorial dust-wrapper. A fine/as new copy. Out of print for many years, this is a fine limited re-issue, being one... More
The Man With The Golden Typewriter. Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters.
London: Bloomsbury, 2015. [Letters] Edited by Fergus Fleming. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.391; [1]. Black hardcovers blocked in gilt, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £25. With black and white photographs. Autographed by Fergus Fleming in ink to the title page. Signature obtained in person for Adrian Harrington Ltd... More
Die Another Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 245; [5], blank. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered in silver to spine, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. A fine/as new copy. A novelisation of the James Bond movie starring Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike; beginning in... More
Quantum of Solace. The Complete James Bond Short Stories.
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, hardcover (18 x 14cm), pp.301, with an introduction by the respected Bond authority Henry Chancellor. In the prize-winning binding of silver-grey cloth with a silenced Walther PPK motif to upper, burgundy endpapers. Complete with the wraparound sleeve, which is gummed together... More
![Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt]. Geoffrey HOUSEHOLD.](/pictures/thumb/52310.jpg?v=1542993315)
Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt].
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
You Only Live Twice.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. FIRST EDITION, First State, Binding A. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers, in original pictorial dust-wrapper by Richard Chopping. With 'First Published 1964' on the copyright... More
Dr No.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, BINDING B. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black Fabroleen cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriot. Housed in a black leather spined clamshell box. A few trivial marks to book and jacket. The jacket has a faint... More
For Your Eyes Only (James Bond short stories).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. First Impression, Binding A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Contents clean, light marks to rear board, a few minor scuffs to front panel of the jacket, lightly edgeworn, strong red lettering to... More