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Three US Bond Omnibuses. [Gilt-Edged Bonds; More Gilt-Edged Bonds; Bonded Fleming].
New York: The Macmillan Company; The Viking Press, 1961 & 1965. [Thrillers] Together three works, large octavo. Gilt-Edged Bonds: Original original black blue-cloth-backed boards, spine and cover lettered in silver. With dust jacket. More Gilt-Edged Bonds: Original black cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge red. With dust jacket. Bonded..... More
[James Bond] A group of six Comic Book volumes comprising [1] OHMSS, You Only Live Twice; [2] The Man With The Golden Gun, The Living Daylights; [3] Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity; [4] The Spy Who Loved Me, The Harpies; [5] The Phoenix Project, The Black Ruby Caper, Til Death Us Do Part, The Torch-Time Affair; [6] Death Wing, Sea Dragon, When The Wizard Awakes.
US/UK: Titan Books, 2004-8. [Comic strip anthologies] Tall paperbacks in illustrated glossy covers. Strips written by Ian Fleming, Henry Gammidge, Anthony Hern and Jim Lawrence, illustrated by John McLusky and Yaroslav Horak. Mixed printings (three are first printings). With introductions by George Lazenby, Maud Adams, Lucy Fleming, Caroline Munro, Tania..... More
[James Bond] A group of four Comic Book volumes comprising [1] Casino Royale, Live & Let Die; [2], The Spy Who Loved Me; [3] Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity; [4] The Man With The Golden Gun, The Living Daylights.
US/UK: Titan Books, 1987-90. [Comic strip anthologies] Tall paperbacks in illustrated glossy covers. Strips written by Ian Fleming, Henry Gammidge, Anthony Hern and Jim Lawrence, illustrated by John McLusky and Yaroslav Horak. All first printings. Fine copies. Comic-strip adaptations of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, as serialised in the Daily..... More
Complete James Bond First Editions in Facsimile. Comprising Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill and Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories).
[Jonathan Cape, London] First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut, [1953-66] 1980s-90s. [Thrillers] 14 volumes, small octavos (20 x 14 x 41cm). Replica hardcover volumes of foil-stamped bookcloth, illustrated dust-wrappers. The complete set in the original pictorial card slip-cases. Some trivial handling. All books in fine, unread condition, showing minimal handling to..... More
The Man With The Golden Gun.
New York, NY: New American Library, 1965. [Spy thriller] 'CHESSMAN' EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.183; [1]. Publisher's 'antique-style' leather-effect green vinyl over boards, panelled spine tooled in gilt, black eps., yellow embroidered head and tail bands, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Contents clean, light rubbing to extremities..... More
For Your Eyes Only.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. [James Bond short stories] FIRST EDITION. Binding A. An association copy, formerly belonging to Sefton Delmer, a fellow intelligence agent, journalist colleague and close friend of Ian Fleming. Delmer bookplate (Valley Farm) to pastedown. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, lettered..... More
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. An association copy, formerly belonging to Sefton Delmer, a fellow intelligence agent, journalist colleague and close friend of Ian Fleming. Delmer bookplate (Valley Farm) to pastedown. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], bank. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed..... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION, State A, Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's copy, with his visiting card, Cape book label and printed slip loosely inserted. Crown octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers in a pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at..... More
You Only Live Twice.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, First State, Binding A. Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's copy, with his visiting card and Cape book label loosely inserted. 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..... More
The Complete James Bond: A James Bond Quartet; A James Bond Quintet; The Essential James Bond. [Volume I]: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, From Russia with Love [Volume II]: Diamonds are Forever, Doctor No, Goldfinger, For your Eyes Only, The Spy who Loved Me [Volume III]: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy, The Living Daylights.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1992-4. [Spy thrillers] FIRST EDITIONS thus. Three omnibus volumes containing all the original James Bond novels and issued by the original publisher in this new format. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.768, pp.928, pp.847. Publisher's black cloth with various coloured metallic titles to spines. With the pictorial..... More
You Only Live Twice.
[Taipei] Central Publishing Co., 1960s. [Thriller] Taiwanese Pirated edition, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.256. Text is a taken from the UK Cape first edition, in jade green leather-effect hardcovers, titled in gilt to the spine, with an original two-tone jacket design. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with small..... More
Goldfinger.
New York: Macmillan [Printed and bound in Great Britain], 1959. [Spy thriller] FIRST US EDITION. 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, price-clipped to both corners. No inscriptions, a few brown marks..... More
Casino Royale.
USA: Berkley Books, 1986. [Spy Fiction] PROMO COPY of the Berkley paperback. Octavo (19 x 13cm). Publisher's softcovers. With silhouette cover design. Minor toning as expected, no inscriptions, coves lightly handled. Near fine. from the Jon Gilbert collection (pencilled ownership within). A promotional copy of the first James Bond novel..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the complete 'Great Pan' Yellow Band paperback series. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace).
London: Pan Books, 1962-3. [Spy thrillers] COMPLETE AS ISSUED. 8 volumes [all that were issued in this series], octavo (16 x 10 x 9cm). A vintage set of the 'Great Pan' paperbacks with the Yellow Band covers and Pan's '007' and bullets logo (Dr. No technically a white band). Various..... More
Group of Berkley series uniform James Bond paperbacks. Comprising: Live and let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, Doctor No, Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me.
USA: Berkley Books, 1982-90. [Spy Fiction] Five volumes, octavo (19 x 13cm). Publisher's softcovers. With silhouette cover designs. Mixed printings. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Two with publisher's punched hole to cover, reading creases to 'Diamonds' else near fine. See Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming The Bibliography. More
From Russia, With Love.
USA: Penguin Ink, 2010. [James Bond novel] Bibliographer's copy. First Edition thus, with strike-line 10 to 1. Pp.259; [3]. Publisher's illustrated card covers with internal flaps, fore-edge untrimmed. Absolutely fine. Penguin's 'Ink' edition, celebrating 75 years of paperbacks. This copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the complete Pan paperback 'Models' series. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace),The Spy Who loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (short stories)
London: Pan Books, 1969-1972. [James Bond] 11 volumes [all that were issued], octavo (18 x 12 x 15cm). A vintage set of Pan paperbacks in the classic white 'Model' series with photo covers and the bold 'James Bond' lettering designed by Raymond Hawkey. Single ink name 'Simon' to Dr.No else..... More