London: Queen Anne Press, 2017. Royal quarto, with black and white illustrations throughout plus four suites of eight colour plates. Set in Albertina type and printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in full green cloth with black endpapers, gilt lettering and ornament. SIGNED by the author. Supplied with a felt..... More

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

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 Amherst..... More

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

London: Hutchinson, 2014. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 388. With eight photographic plates in colour. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, bottle green endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £20. A lovely fine, unread copy. Jacket has an unfortunate cut along the spine (from box-opening with..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Large octavo (24 x 16cm). pp.346, with pp.16 photographic plates. Publisher's patterned green softcovers. Prelims spotted, spine wrinkled, some toning to edges and extremities, joints rubbed. Very good, in a custom-made quarter green morocco clamshell box. Scarce in this format. The proof features..... More

Swan Books, [1966]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A paperback original. Octavo, pp.160. Publishers card covers with photographic illustrations to upper and lower panel. Cheap paper toned as expected, covers lightly worn. Very good indeed. This is Swan Book S-102, understood to be the US version. The Canadian version was designated..... More

Privately Printed, n.d. [2013]. LIMITED EDITION, one of just 20 copies. Pp.198, with illustrations. SIGNED by the author to title page. Spiral bound with colour-printed card covers. Originally produced in the 90's, this is the limited second printing identified by the metal binder (originally comb-bound in red plastic) and text..... More

New York: Dell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). Pp.[viii]; 150; [2], blank. With photographic plates. Publisher's hardback cloth in a dust-wrapper. Bookplate of Lawrence Smith beneath flap. A little edgewear otherwise a near fine copy in similar price-clipped jacket. Shows well. 'The earliest book-length biography..... More