Fleming's James Bond Stories
You Only Live Twice (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Spy novel] Second impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine and Japanese characters in gilt to upper, bamboo patterned endpapers. Fine copy, lacking jacket. The final impression of this novel to be printed during the..... More
You Only Live Twice.
New York, NY: New American Library, 1964. [Spy Fiction] NAL Book Club Edition [both variants]. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.240; [4], blank. Publisher's hardback yellow cloth binding blocked in colours, red top edge, pictorial dust-jacket. Binding A is blocked in red and black with red endpapers and the..... More
You Only Live Twice.
New York, NY: 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, reading lean. A very good copy. Published simultaneously..... More
You Only Live Twice. (a James Bond novel)
London: Pan Books, 1965. FIRST EDITION in paperback, for export only- marked 'Not for Sale in UK' on rear panel. Scarce thus- the first edition to be priced and sold in the UK was actually the second printing of the following year. Slim octavo, pictorial card wrappers. Minor creasing, spine..... More
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[POSTER] Bond Bound. Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design.
UK: Printed by Empress, London, 2008. [James Bond book design] Advertising poster for the 'Bond Bound' touring exhibition, held during the Ian Fleming Centenary year. Typographic style, designed by Webb and Webb (a photographic version was also produced). Approximate dimensions 33 x 23 inches, on heavyweight paperstock. Rolled. Fine/as new..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun. (a James Bond novel)
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965 [actually issued late 1964]. [Thriller] An UNCORRECTED PROOF copy of the first edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [3], blank. Printed green wraps. One of just 596 copies. A few light marks, owner name, some trivial handling. Near fine, housed in custom-made green leather-spined clamshell box..... More
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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
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The James Bond 007 Annual [1968].
Manchester: Published by World Distributors [by arrangement with Eon Productions / Glidrose Publications], 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..... 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