Fleming's James Bond Stories
Gilt-Edged Bonds. Casino Royale, From Russia, with Love, and Doctor No. With an introduction by Paul Gallico.
The Macmillan Company, 1961. Octavo. Orignal blue cloth-backed black boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Together with two typed letters signed from Fleming to James Bond, 2 leaves (253 x 202 mm), headed notepaper ("4, Old Mitre Court, Fleet Street, E.C.4") and one envelope. Housed..... More
"The Guns of James Bond." [In: Sports Illustrated Magazine, Volume 16, Number 11, 19 March 1962.]
Time Incorporated, 1962. Magazine format, stapled. Pp. 84, price 25 cents. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Subscriber's label on front wrapper. Slight rubbing and creasing to wrappers; in near-fine condition. Contains the first American appearance of this original Ian Fleming feature entitled "The Guns of James Bond" (pp. 68-78), being an..... More
Live and Let Die. [In:] Bluebook, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 88-128.
McCall Corporation, May 1954. Octavo. Original illustrated wrappers. Text mostly printed in double columns. Lacking rear wrapper, spine worn with loss, creasing and rubbing, front wrapper bright, large faint damp stain to initial leaves, not affecting Fleming's text, contents toned; a good copy. First appearance in the US of the..... More
The Living Daylights. [In: Sunday Times colour section, 4 February 1962. Issue 1, pp. 23-32.]
Thomson Newspapers Limited, 1962. Large magazine format. Illustrations throughout. A near-fine copy. Contains the first appearance in print (pre-book form) of this James Bond novella; with the signature of pop-artist Peter Blake on the contents page, who would later design the cover of a commemorative edition of From Russia, With..... More
Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
Jonathan Cape, 1966. Octavo. Original green wrappers, lettered in black and patterned with white publisher's motif. With dust jacket. Housed in custom blue quarter morocco cloth slipcase. A near-fine copy, creasing and rubbing to spine, otherwise in excellent condition for a proof copy, in like dust jacket. Uncorrected proof copy..... More
Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Two original typescripts, owned by Richard Chopping.
[Jonathan Cape], n.d. [1965]. THE ONLY KNOWN TYPESCRIPT for Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Richard Chopping's signed original typescripts for the two James Bond short stories, each inscribed by the book jacket illustrator. Octopussy, 46pp., and The Living Daylights, 35pp., quarto, stapled sheets. Minor creases and rust marks; near-fine. Both..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Jonathan Cape, 1963. Octavo. Original quarter vellum, black board sides, spine lettered in gilt, ski track decoration on front cover in white, top edge gilt. With publisher's protective wrapper. Colour portrait frontispiece of the author with tissue guard. Light sunning to spine and rubbing to sides, contents clean. A near-fine..... More
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Jonathan Cape, 1963. Octavo. Original grey-brown boards (binding A, no priority), spine lettered in silver, white ski track design on front cover. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom cream cloth chemise and slipcase by James MacDonald of New York. A little rubbing, slight lean to spine, publisher's date stamp..... More
Thrilling Cities.
New American Library, 1964. Octavo. Original ochre cloth, top edge orange. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed folding box. Corners slightly bumped, browning to first and final leaves, a near-fine copy. Some staining to dust jacket with extremities worn and tears to spine, a good copy. First..... More
Thunderball.
Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first impression, presentation copy. Octavo. Original dark grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, skeletal hand motif blocked on the front cover in blind (Gilbert's A binding). With first issue dust jacket (priced at 15s.) Head and foot of spine very slightly bumped; a fine copy..... More
You Only Live Twice.
Jonathan Cape, 1964. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in silver, Japanese characters blocked in gilt to front cover, bamboo-patterned endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom dark blue quarter morocco folding box. A very good copy, minor lean to spine, edges lightly toned and foxed, but internally still..... More
You Only Live Twice.
Pan Books Ltd, 1965. Slim octavo. Original green wrappers, lettered in black and red. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy, spine rubbed and creased, otherwise presenting well for a paperback edition, in very good dust jacket, wear to joints and extremities, nicks to spine ends. First paperback edition, first impression..... More
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The James Bond 007 Annual [1968].
Manchester: Published by World Distributors, 1968. [Film annual] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 21cm), pp.93 (the pagination, as with all copies, is awry, beginning at p.4). Publisher's glossy boards without jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout including several colour photographs. Original price of 12/6 intact. Contents clean without..... More
'My Name's Bond' - an anthology from the Fiction of Ian Fleming.
London: Allen Lane, 2000. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.150. With black and white photographs. Publisher's grey cloth hardback blocked in silver to spine, blind-stamped '007' motif to front cover, photographic dust-jacket priced at £9.99 / $24.99 (Canada). A clean, fine copy. Editor Simon Winder was the senior..... 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., December 1961. [Men's Magazine] FIRST US PERIODICAL APPEARANCE. Magazine format (28 x 22cm), pp.144. In pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. The novel 'Thunderball' is advertised on the front cover as an 'extra book bonus' and appears on pages 128–44, with a...... More
The Spy's Bedside Book. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth (at least three colours were used), illustrated dust-wrapper. No inscriptions. Very good indeed, in similar price clipped jacket with sunned spine (as usual). An intriguing mix of factual..... More
The Spy's Bedside Book. An Anthology edited by Graham Greene and Hugh Greene. With An Introduction by Stella Rimington.
London: Folio Society, 2006. [Spy Anthology] FIRST EDITION THUS, first printing. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.261; [1], blank; [1], order form; [1], blank. With illustrations by Nick Hardcastle. Publisher's decorated blue cloth, tan endpapers, in tan slipcase. Fine throughout. An intriguing mix of factual and fictional pieces, including contributions from..... More