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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
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
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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