[Military Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.256. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial dust-wrapper. Edges of text block toned else a fine copy in price-clipped jacket. During the 1930s, the Nazi Party looted thousands of pounds, hiding the..... More

New York: Popular Libary, 1965. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm). Pp.125; [3]. Publishers card covers with typographic design to upper and lower panel, all edges red. Cheap paper toned as expected, covers rather crisp, if a little browned. A near fine copy. More

UK: Mayflower-Dell, April 1966. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A paperback original. Publishers card covers with photographic illustrations to upper and lower panel. Usual toning to textblock, softcovers lightly handled. Very good. An elusive early biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, published some six months before John Pearson's 'Life of..... More

New York: Dell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). Pp.[viii]; 150; [2], blank. With photographic plates. Publisher's hardback cloth in a dust-wrapper. Bookplate of Lawrence Smith beneath flap. A little edgewear otherwise a near fine copy in similar price-clipped jacket. Shows well. 'The earliest book-length biography..... More

London: Panther Books, 1965. FIRST PRINTING. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.175; [1] advertisement, with 48 full-page plates. A Paperback original, with photographic softcovers. Cheap paper stock toned as expected, some notes on ballistics to p.113 in pink pen, minor reading crease to spine but contents and photos intact (often split/cracked..... More

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

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill 1966. [Literary biography] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.339; [1], blank, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Publisher's orange cloth blocked in black and yellow, pictorial jacket priced at $6.95. With a supplied copy of the statement from McGraw-Hill, acknowledging some factual errors in..... More

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1984. [James Bond reference book] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Signed by the author on a decorative 007 Fan Club bookplate featuring the arms of the Bond family. Large octavo (29 x 22cm), pp.[xiv]; 256; [1], About The Author; [1], blank. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's red cloth blocked..... More

London: Queen Anne Press, 2012. ILAB-Breslauer Prize Winner [2014]. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED ISSUE No.98 of 250 copies, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page at rear. Royal quarto (33 x 24cm), pp.x; 692 [2]. With black and white illustrations throughout plus four suites of eight colour..... More

London: Pan Books, 1966. [Bond reference] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.111; [9], endmatter and advertisements. Bound in pictorial card covers designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 3/6. Usual page toning, covers lightly worn; near fine. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series..... More

New York, NY: Signet Books, 1966. [Bond reference /critique] FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK. Pp.127 + [1], advertisement. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 60c, all edges red. Cheap paper stock browned as usual, covers slightly rubbed. Near fine. Now a rather elusive paperback, published in the same year as the UK Pan..... More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt to spine, beige endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. Price-clipped else a clean, fine copy. 'The most comprehensive biography of Ian Fleming' - Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.592..... More