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The Spy's Bedside Book.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Occasional illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth (at least three colours were used), illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 15s. A very good copy in slightly chipped jacket, sunned to spine. An anthology. Includes pieces by Fleming, Kipling, Somerset Maugham, John Buchan..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Reference critique] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN PROOF JACKET. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's paper covers, with pictorial proof dust-wrapper, based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' designs which decorated the Ian Fleming first editions. Edges dusty else book is fine. Oversized jacket with minor..... More
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond.
London: Bloomsbury, 2008. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated Quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.224. Silk-screen pictorial hardcover, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at £20. Book appears unread, jacket lightly handled only. A fine copy. A superb reference book from journalist Ben Macintyre, covering both the literary and screen James Bond. The volume was originally conceived..... More
007 James Bond. The Authorized Biography.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1973. [Fictional biography] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.317. Bound in black half calf with twin red morocco title labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, matching cloth sides. Strong red colour to topstain; a clean copy inside and out. Fine, in an attractive recent..... More
Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies.
London: Collins, 1960. [Ornithology] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256; [1], blank. With colour plate illustrations and line drawings. Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine, cartographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 35s. Contents clean, related 1964 news-clipping (Bond and Fleming) affixed with sellotape to..... More
Ian Fleming's Commandos. The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII.
London: Faber and Faber, 2011. [Military History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.397. With illustrations. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions or price-clipping; an absolutely fine/as new copy, signed by the author to the title page. "The true story of Fleming's wartime Commando unit, the real-life inspiration for..... 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. Edges of text..... 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 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 black half calf over cloth sides blocked with 'Golden Eye' motif, top edge gilt. Contents clean, a few light marks to covers; near fine. John Pearson began his..... 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.96. 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
'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
Ian Fleming and James Bond: the Cultural Politics of 007.
Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 281 [5]. With occasional black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. Very light wear to edges; one small splash to fore-edge. Near fine. More
The Man Who Supercharged Bond.
Haynes Publishing, 2009. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.352. With two suites of sixteen photographic plates. Publisher's hardcover, grey endpapers, photographic dust-wrapper. A very fine/as new copy, autographed at our bookshop and carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. Subtitled 'The Extraordinary story of Charles..... More
The Man Who Supercharged Bond.
Haynes Publishing, 2009. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.352. With two suites of sixteen photographic plates. Publisher's hardcover, grey endpapers, photographic dust-wrapper. A very fine/as new copy, carefully warehoused by ourselves since publication. Subtitled 'The Extraordinary story of Charles Amherst Villiers' the renowned automotive and aeronautical engineer who was a close..... More
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