New Arrivals
Double O Seven. James Bond. A Report.
London: Neville Spearman, Holland Press, 1964. [Reference/ Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.160. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers in Richard Chopping-style dust-wrapper, priced at 18s. Discreet Foyle's label beneath flap, jacket lightly rubbed only with one small nick to spine. Near fine. The very first book-length critique on...
The Union Trilogy and Choice of Weapons. Being his complete James Bond novels and short stories.
New York, NY: Pegasus Books, 2008-2010. 2 Omnibus volumes. FIRST EDITIONS, also FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK-FORM of the short stories 'Blast From the Past', 'Live at Five', 'Midsummer Night's Doom'. Large octavo, pp.846; 847. Publisher's illustrated card covers. With SIGNED bookplate to first volume, autographed in this cataloguer's presence. Unused/as...
How 007 Got His Name.
London: Collins, 1966. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.62, with two photographic illustrations comprising a frontispiece portrait of the subject and Ian Fleming's only meeting with James Bond. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by Barbosa, after Richard Chopping's designs for the jackets of the original 007 novels. A....
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The Thirty-Nine [39] Steps,
London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. [Espionage classic]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.253; [2], adverts. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue oasis, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt titles to upper cover, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A little of the usual edge toning to the cheap wartime paper...
The Big Sleep.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.302. Publisher's black cloth with red titles and trim. Edges a little toned, joints a touch rubbed. A clean, near fine example. The author's first book, introducing Philip Marlowe; cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Chandler's writing was...
The Sins of Sumuru.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.224. In publisher's bright red cloth titled and trimmed in in black, with original illustrated dust-jacket. A lovely fine copy in a lightly used, price-clipped wrapper. One of Mr. Rohmer's increasingly elusive (but always cool) Sumuru titles, featuring the female equivalent of Fu...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014. LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 copies only, this set being additionally SIGNED BY THE ARTIST John Burningham to each book. In three volumes, complete. Octavo, pp.48, 48, 48. Publisher's white hardcovers in glossy pictorial dustwrappers. A facsimile of the first edition of...
James Bond in the Cinema.
London: The Tantivy Press, 1972. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.176. Illustrated throughout with great stills, mostly provided by United Artists. Publisher's raspberry pink cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with striking colour wraparound artwork by Stefan Dreja. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Book is near fine, in similar jacket...
From Russia, With Love (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. FIRST EDITION, First Impression, Binding A. Publisher's hardback binding in pictorial dustjacket by Richard Chopping, correctly priced at 13/6. A beautiful near fine copy. The book is particularly fresh with bright foil-work and clean page edges. Jacket also crisp and fresh with a trivial amount wear...
The Spy Who Loved Me. (A James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Impression, State A, INSCRIBED by the author to the correspondent Jonathan Connolly. Octavo, pp.221. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with foil stamped 'dagger, red endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper by Richard Chopping. Housed in a custom-made leather-spined clamshell box. Trivial wear. Near fine. The tenth...
The Diamond Smugglers. With an Introduction by 'John Blaize' formerly of the International Diamond Security Organization.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. [True crime] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.160. Illustrated with photos and drawings. With errors as listed by Gilbert. Publisher's light blue cloth with titles in white to the spine, with four white circles representing diamonds stamped to upper. Black pictorial dust-wrapper...
The Guns of Navarone.
London: Collins, 1957. [WWII adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.318; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Edges of text block a little toned, price-clipped wrapper faintly edgeworn with slight toning to spine. A clean, near fine copy. One of the author's most popular titles...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Illustrated by John Burningham.
London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014. Edition limited to 100 copies, this set being one of a few marked 'o/s' [out-of-series]. 3 volumes, tall octavos. Complete. Pp.48, 48, 48. Publisher's white hardcovers in glossy pictorial dust-wrappers. A facsimile of the first edition of Ian Fleming's famous children's story...
Live and Let Die (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. FIRST EDITION, Second Issue. SIGNED to flyleaf by the late Kenneth Lewis, illustrator of this jacket, with added inscription 'artist to Ian Fleming'. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper-covered boards, titled and decorated in gilt, with original dust-wrapper crediting artist Lewis to the front flap immediately below the...
The Liquidator.
London: Frederick Muller, 1964. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.204; [4], blank. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Derrick Holmes, priced at 18s. Minor dustiness, jacket with a tiny nick at crown, minor laminate shrinkage. A near fine, bright example of...
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...
"Tomorrow Never Dies" (Released Through United Artists) (James Bond script by Bruce Feirstein)
Eon Productions Limited, Pinewood Studios, UK, 18th August, 1997. Final Shooting Script for the UA film 'Tomorrow Never Dies' produced by Barbara Broccoli, and Michael G. Wilson. Complete script, bound in paperback form (19 x 10cm), gloss black card cover with titles printed in silver with a facsimile signature of...
Introduces Jamaica. Edited by Morris Cargill
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. [Travel book] FIRST STATE without Editor's name printed on the jacket panels. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.240, illustrated throughout with colour plates, map endpapers printed in colour. Publisher's russet cloth hardcover, gilt titles, top edge ochre, in photographic dust-jacket, priced at 42s. Book is near fine...
The Case is Altered.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.341; [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey dust-jacket illustrated by John Banting, priced at 7/6. Spotting to edges and sporadically to the textblock. Jacket spine toned, with some chips to edges...
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 in...
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 green cloth hardcovers titled in silver to spine, grey endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. A fine/as new copy. Out of print for many years...
Madrigal.
London: Frederick Muller, 1967. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 310. Publisher's green cloth with white titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Abis Stribley, priced at 25s. Edges a little toned to edges, jacket a little edgeworn, with some scuffs to spine and folds. Very...
Diamonds are Forever. Centenary Edition.
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.287; [1], blank; [10] adverts. Bound in original silver-stamped black cloth in striking dust-jackets with 'retro' style artwork by Michael Gillette. Second impression of the Centenary edition. A clean, near fine copy.
Live and Let Die. Centenary Edition.
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.271; [10], adverts. Bound in original silver-stamped black cloth in striking dust-jackets with 'retro' style artwork by Michael Gillette. A clean ex-library copy with discreet erasures, pen mark to top edge, jacket lightly marked only. A rather scarce...
You Only Live Twice. Centenary Edition.
London: Penguin 007, 2008. [Spy novel] FIRST IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm). Bound in original silver-stamped black cloth in striking dust-jackets with 'retro' style artwork by Michael Gillette. A clean ex-library copy with label removed from flyleaf, jacket lightly handled with minor nicks/tears. A rather scarce edition, being one of...