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Ian Fleming's Thrilling Cities [including a James Bond story]
New York, NY: New American Library, 1964. [Travel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 246; [2], blank. Publisher's full beige cloth with blue and white endbands, top edge red, terracotta endpapers - not to be confused with the taller book club binding which has red cloth sides, red..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Reference critique] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159; [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' designs which decorated the Ian Fleming first editions. Priced at 16s. to flap. A near fine..... More
The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to backstrip, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. The signature was obtained during the book launch event held at our shop. A fine/as-new copy, carefully..... More
Doubleshot.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.274. Publisher's cloth with pictorial dust-wrapper. The signature was obtained during the book launch event held at our shop. A fine/as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. While officially on medical..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. A fine/as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A James Bond adventure set in Afghanistan and..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. A fine/as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A James Bond adventure..... More
Forever and a Day.
London: Jonathan Cape in association with Goldsboro Books, 2018. [James Bond continuation novel] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 287; [9]. Publisher's black hardcovers with boat/bullet design in gilt, blue endpapers, blue edges, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Kris Potter. Signed by Anthony Horowitz to the limitation page..... More
Forever and a Day.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2018. [James Bond continuation novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Trade edition. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 287; [9]. Publisher's black hardcovers with boat/bullet design in gilt, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Kris Potter. Signed by Anthony Horowitz to the title page. A fine, as new copy. Horowitz's..... More
Colonel Sun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Illustrated map endpapers. The rarer variant with a dropped quad mark to the date on the copyright page (rather in the same manner as 'The Spy Who Loved Me' variant - see Gilbert). Publisher's hardcovers..... More
Octopussy (James Bond short stories).
New York, NY: New American Library, 1966. [short adventures] First American Printing being the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.121. Publisher's cloth in pictorial wrapper, mustard coloured endpapers, twelve black and white illustrations plus vignette illustration to title page, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at $3.50. Jacket with one short..... More
Moonraker.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1955. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.256. This is the scarce variant on the thin paper stock with 'shoo' for 'shoot' printed to p.10. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, titled in silver, in 'flame' design dust-wrapper by Kenneth Lewis. In a leather-spined clamshell box. The edges of text..... More
Live and Let Die (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.240. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, embossed in gilt, with purple dust-wrapper showing the original price of 10/6 to both flaps. With 'author's skill' text correctly spaced to rear panel, as described in the bibliography, page 61..... More
Diamonds are Forever.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. FIRST EDITION, Binding B (Type 'B' cloth, designated without priority). Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.257; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth titled in silver, with the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pat Marriott, priced at 12/6. A well-preserved copy, gently handled and with some light rubbing and a...... 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 10/6. A very lightly handled copy; jacket with one tiny nick to..... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2011. [Spy thriller] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 414; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardcover over red paper sides, dust-jacket in black, red and silver, priced at $26.99. With author's signature to the title page. A little shelfwear else fine. A...... More
Cold.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm) Pp.213. Publisher's hardback cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £16.99 (many were unpriced for export). A fine, unread copy. Seemingly printed in small numbers, this is a particularly scarce James Bond title. Published as 'Cold Fall' in America, this..... More
The Facts of Death.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1998. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's hardcover cloth in illustrated dust-jacket. Contents slightly toned. Possibly read once. Near fine. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 613. More
The Facts of Death.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1998. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's hardcover cloth in illustrated dust-jacket.SIGNED by the author in his customary sharpie to title page. Signature obtained during one of his many book launch events held at our shop. Both the book and..... More
Carte Blanche. 'Bentley Edition' with engraved bullet.
London: Bentley 007 / Hodder and Stoughton, 2011. [Spy novel] LIMITED EDITION by Bentley Motors, just one of 500 numbered copies of their 'White' edition, issued with a chrome box in the shape of a Bentley GT as featured in the novel (a 'Red' edition was also issued, without the..... More
'James Bond and the Book Collector' within The Book Collector. Spring 2014.
London: The Collector Limited, 2014. [Literary Journal] Vol. 63, No.1, Spring 2014. Octavo, pp.168. Illustrated, in green card wrappers, with accompanying loose index for previous volume. Includes the article 'Bond and the Book Collector' by Nicolas Barker OBE, being a lengthy review of Jon Gilbert's Ian Fleming Bibliography, SIGNED by..... More
You Only Live Twice.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. With 'First Published March 1964' on the copyright page. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper by Richard Chopping. Page..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. SIGNED BY IAN FLEMING and additionally INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE 'Sable Basilisk' (Robin de la Lanne Mirrlees). Second Impression. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. Very good indeed, with a little edge-spotting, neat reference number '1M' to flyleaf..... More
Role of Honour.
London: Swordfish, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2011. [Spy novel] ISBN: 978 0 857 82050 1. Quality hardback re-issue of the first Jonathan Cape edition (1983) featuring the same dust-jacket artwork. FIRST EDITION thus, with a full strike-line number sequence. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.199. Publisher's black cloth lettered..... More
Nobody Lives For Ever.
London: Swordfish, an imprint of Orion Publishing Group, 2011. [Spy novel] ISBN: 978 0 857 82052 5. Quality hardback re-issue of the first Jonathan Cape edition (1983) featuring the same dust-jacket artwork. FIRST EDITION thus, with a full strike-line number sequence. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.184. Publisher's black cloth lettered..... More
The 007 Diaries. With a Foreword by David Hedison.
Stroud: The History Press, 2018. [James Bond] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Illustrated with a central suite of colour plates. Publisher's black cloth binding lettered in gilt to the spine, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £14.99. A fine copy. Hardcover reissue of an elusive text first published in..... More