Fleming's James Bond Stories
You Only Live Twice
London: Jonathan Cape. 1964 [actually issued late 1963]. An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. In printed green wrappers and the pictorial dust-jacket, stamped 'Proof Only' etc. on the inside front flap, with minor variations to the blurb on the rear flap over the published version. A fine copy... More
You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Elegantly bound in green calf over matching cloth sides, with gilt titles and raised bands to spine. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. The last title in what has become known as the 'Blofeld' trilogy. This... More
You Only Live Twice.
New York: Signet Books, July 1965. The true first paperback edition. Signet Books' series P2712. Pp.160. Publisher's illustrated softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel, all edges tinted red. Pages a little tanned as expected, some acceptable creases and wear, minor scuffs. A very good copy. Published simultaneously with... More
The Man With the Golden Gun (a James Bond novel)
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965 [actually issued late 1964]. Pp.221. PROOF copy in publisher's wraps. Some minor wear, joints a little rubbed, old tape mark to head of spine, some cockling; a very good copy housed in a morocco-spined clamshell box. Ian Fleming wrote one James Bond novel each winter in... More
![The Property of a Lady (a James Bond story) [THE IVORY HAMMER]. Ian Lancaster FLEMING.](/pictures/thumb/38704.jpg?v=1497532611)
The Property of a Lady (a James Bond story) [THE IVORY HAMMER]
London, Longmans and Co. 1963. Quarto. Publisher's red cloth in jacket. Contains the first appearance of the James Bond story 'The Property of a Lady', by Ian Fleming. This did then not appear in book form until it was included in the first paperback edition of Octopussy, (1967). Was not... More
Thrilling Cities.
Jonathan Cape, London, 1963. First Impression, First State. DEDICATION COPY, signed by the author. Pp.223. Publisher's cloth-backed marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt to the spine, black endpapers, top edge stained black. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Paul Davis. Illustrated with photographic plates, and with erratum slip tipped... More
You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel)
London: Jonathan Cape. 1964 [actually issued late 1963]. An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. In printed green wrappers and the pictorial dust-jacket, stamped 'Proof Only' etc. on inside front flap, with minor variations to the blurb on rear flap over the published version. A fine copy of the... More
'The Hildebrand Rarity' contained within 'The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader'.
London: Souvenir Press, 1966. FIRST UK EDITION. Hardcover anthology of commentary, satire, fiction and interviews originally appearing in Playboy magazine. Pp.876; [2], blank. Hardback (24 x 18cm). Oatmeal-coloured cloth with 'bunny' motif blocked to the front in brown with titles to the spine, without the plastic jacket. A James Bond... More
The Complete James Bond Omnibus Series. Volume 001-006.
London: Titan Books, 2006-2014. Ian Fleming's James Bond; the original comic strips as adapted and serialised in the Daily Express by Anthony Hern, Henry Gammidge, Peter O'Donnell and Jim Lawrence, illustrated by John McLusky, Yaroslav Horak and Harry North. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes, quarto (24 x 19cm). Bound in... More
'Goldfinger' (Greatest James Bond Thriller) contained within 'Saga' magazine for men. Volume 28, Number 4, July 1964.
New York: McFadden-Bartell Corp. 1964. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 25 cents. Minor wear to foot of spine, some ink notation to margin of first advert. Near fine. Minor wear to foot of spine, some ink notation to margin of first advert. Near fine. A condensation of... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SECOND STATE, BINDING D. Pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with bronze lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. Price clipped else a beautiful fine copy; remarkably fresh. A previously unrecorded... More
'Operation Thunderball' contained within 'Now and Then' Magazine. No. 107, Spring, 1961.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1961. Pp.24. Price 9d. Magazine format, stapled. A couple of ink splashes to fore-edge else fine. 'Operation Thunderball' appears on page 7, being a pre-book-form printing of the letter which sets in motion SPECTRE's operation. This is an excerpt from the 'Fasten Your Lap-Strap' chapter of... More
Showcase presents Doctor No.
March-April 1963. DC Comics, National Periodical Publications, Inc., Sparta Illinois. 1963. Published as issue 43 of the Showcase anthology series by DC Comics, with artwork by Norman Nodel. The front inside cover shows five stills from the United Artists film adaptation, and the rear inside cover prints a biography of... More
'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961.
Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. 1961. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. Minor wear to spine and postal label to upper else fine. The novel 'Thunderball' is advertised on the front cover as an 'extra book bonus' and appears on pages 128–44, with a.... More
Trigger Mortis.
London: Orion, 2015. [Spy novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, Waterstones version. The latest James Bond novel, incorporating an original story/idea 'Murder On Wheels' by Ian Fleming. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.329; [1], advertisement. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers with large skull motif blocked to upper in silver, with black and orange-coloured dust-jacket... More
Jonathan Cape, Publisher.
London: Jonathan Cape 1971. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TOM MASCHLER. Octavo, pp.351 + [1]. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. One of an unspecified number of publisher's in-house presentation copies, with a printed commemorative label affixed to the flyleaf and additional director's slip attached to pastedown bearing the hand-written... More
Best Motoring Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Driving anthology]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.215. Publisher's red cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper. A used copy, jacket with a few chips and tears, age-toned to spine. Very good. Contains 'James Bond Drives', being the thrilling motor chase originally published as chapter 20 of... More