003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Young Bond] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.175; [1], blank. Illustrated by Christopher Chamberlain. Publisher's black cloth blocked to the spine in gilt, cartographic endpapers, pictorial jacket priced at 16s. A lovely fine copy in a near fine, slightly nicked dust-wrapper without the heavy spine fade which besets the jacket. Unusual thus. Although an officially licensed spin-off, 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior is considered a failed attempt at launching a youth-oriented line of fiction aimed at 8 to 14 year olds. A moderately successful TV cartoon series by the same name was produced by EON Productions (1991), and in 2005, unrelated to 003½, Ian Fleming Publications published a successful youth-oriented line of 'Young Bond' adventures by Charlie Higson, featuring James Bond the schoolboy. The UK edition precedes the US first printing. Item #60607
Price: £175.00
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