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[FLEMING, Ian] PORTRAIT OF IAN FLEMING BY AMHERST VILLIERS.
no place, no date [printed 2012]. A limited edition giclée print of the only formal portrait of Ian Fleming, painted in 1962 by Charles Amherst Villiers. The painting was then used as a frontispiece to the signed limited edition On Her Majesty's Secret Service, published by Jonathan Cape in 1963... More
The Diamond Smugglers.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.160. Illustrated with photographs. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Some occasional browning within; externally unmarked. A very good copy in an attractive recent leather binding... More
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2014. [Film Autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.272. Number 1732 of 3000 copies signed by the author to a tipped in limitation page. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, sky blue endpapers, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, and a Topping and Company 'Signed First Edition'... 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. Attractively bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, top edge red, original endpapers (with Fleming family crest) and dust-jacket panel preserved at rear. Internally clean, minor discolour to top... More
A Moveable Feast.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Modern Literature] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, priced at 18s. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket with bold 'PROOF ONLY' text to rear flap with provisional publication date printed below. Proof copies feature the mis-print 'movable'... More
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in Richard Chopping-esque pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Top edge a little dusty, spine a shade toned else a clean, fine copy. Typical 'sixties James Bond cash-in, complete with a.... 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. Neat ownership to flyleaf, jacket shows some handling, rubbed at joints, a few small chips/tears... More
For Your Eyes Only.
London: Pan Books, 1962. FIRST UK EDITION in paperback. Octavo (17 x 11cm). 'Great Pan' series G551. Pp.191; [1], advertisement. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, 'International version' with original price 2/6 label to upper panel. A very good copy showing some wear to the joints and a gentle spine roll. Attractive. Gilbert... More
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Roger Moore as James Bond 007 [aka Roger Moore's James Bond Diary].
London: Pan Books, 1973. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.189; [1], blank; [2], advertisements, in pictorial card wrappers. Roger Moore's own account of filming 'Live and Let Die', with exclusive colour photographs by Luisa Moore and stills from the film. A paperback original (US title: Roger Moore's James... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Pan Books, 1967. FIRST UK EDITION in paperback. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.172; [4], advertisements. Pictorial card softcovers with original price of 3/6 to rear (also priced for export to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). Trivial handling to covers. Near fine with some inevitable and expected toning to... More
Q. The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn.
Seaford: S.B. Publications, 1995. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Glossy photo-documentary in a large hardcover format. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.168. Illustrated throughout with black and white stills, with accompanying text. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is number 997, autographed by both the author and subject. A fine copy... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
New York: The New American Library, 1965. FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.183; [1]. Publisher's hardcovers, stamped in gilt and colours with golden gun motif boldly blocked to all three panels, dust-jacket with die-cut bullet holes to upper. This is the correct binding with the code number gilt-stamped... More
'My Name's Bond' - an anthology from the Fiction of Ian Fleming.
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
Too Hot to Handle (Moonraker).
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
Solo.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2013. [James Bond Novel] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp326. Publisher's red screen-printed hardcovers, red endpapers, embossed and die-cut dust-jacket, featuring bullet-holes in the style of the original US printing of Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun (this adventure being set in 1969... More
Carte Blanche. A James Bond Novel.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011. [Spy thriller] SIGNED 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 fine/as new copy. A James... More
Goldeneye. Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica.
London: Hutchinson 2014. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 388. With eight photographic plates in colour. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine; pictorial dust-wrapper. An unread, fine copy, with author's signature to title page and 'Signed' wraparound band from the promotional event at Hatchards. Absolutely... More
The James Bond Bedside Companion.
London: Boxtree Limited, 1988. [James Bond reference book]. The revised and updated edition, being the FIRST UK APPEARANCE of this title. Large octavo (28 x 22cm), pp.275; [1]. Glossy softcovers., illustrated throughout. A little edgewear/bumping very good indeed. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography. More
![Ian Fleming: The Bibliography. [In Custom Slipcase]. Jon GILBERT, born 1972.](/pictures/thumb/52155.jpg?v=1535036336)
Ian Fleming: The Bibliography. [In Custom Slipcase].
London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. Royal quarto, with black and white illustrations throughout plus four suites of eight colour plates. Set in Albertina type and printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in full green cloth with black endpapers, gilt lettering and ornament. SIGNED by the author. Supplied with a felt... More
Colonel Sun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's hardback cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 21s. Wraparound art by Tom Adams. Book is very clean, jacket with two short tears and a tiny amount of rubbing to crown. A particularly bright copy. The first post-... More
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. FIRST EDITION. 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. Owner name 'Bray' to flyleaf (Hilary Bray was Bond's alias in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service), page edges... More
Dr No.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, silver titles to spine, in pictorial dust wrapper designed by Pat Marriott. This binding without the 'Dancing Lady' design to the upper, being the earlier of the two styles. A nice... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.384. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, fold-out map. Publisher's red cloth, with "Fu Lei-Ming" in gilt to front board, gilt titles to spine; top edge stained red, bottom edge untrimmed. Edges and covers dusty, single mark to fore-edge. A very... More
High Time To Kill
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.294. Publisher's black cloth with pictorial dust-wrapper. A lovely fine, unread copy. Rather elusive; A mountaineering adventure set in the Himalayas, High Time To Kill is Raymond Benson's third novel starring Ian Fleming's James Bond, and is... More
Carte Blanche.
London: Bentley 007 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 elaborate outer case and... More