Biographies and Reference
Ian Fleming's Life Story: The Man With The Golden Pen, appearing in Woman's Mirror (two issues, extracted complete text).
London: Fleetway Publications, [1966]. [Literary Biography] Loose leaves, extracted from the publication, 18pp., 22pp., stapled to top left. Some browning, minor edge wear. Signature and pencil note of bibliographer Jon Gilbert. This is a serialisation of Gant's biography of Fleming, in two magazine appearances [April 23rd 1966 & April 30th..... More
Ian Fleming: The Fantastic 007 Man.
New York: Lancer Books, 1966. [Biography] FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A paperback original. pp.174; [2], advertisements. Publishers card covers with photographic illustrations to upper and lower panel, all edges tinted purple. Discreet ink stamp. Text block gently toned as expected. Covers fresh and unworn (usually quite rubbed). An unusually..... More
Aston Martin Heritage.
London: Osprey Automotive, 1991. [Motoring] Quarto (23 x 21cm), pp.128, illustrated throughout. Publisher's glossy photographic covers. Fine. A history of the Aston Martin marque. Includes a photo of the AMV8 adapted for use in 'The Living Daylights' (1987). From the comprehensive James Bond archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled ownership..... More
Aston Martin. The Postwar Road Cars.
Yeovil, UK: Haynes, 1988. [Motoring] Oblong quarto (26 x 27cm), pp.128, illustrated throughout with colour photos. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in dust-wrapper glossy photographic covers. Contents fine, jacket with some scratches to panels, one creased tear to rear. Very good. A comprehensive illustrated history of the Aston Martin marque. From the..... More
Aston Martin.
Potsdam: H. F. Ullmann Publishing, 2008. [Motoring] Quarto, pp.280, illustrated throughout. English, German and French language. Photography by Rainer W. Schlegelmilch, text by Hartmut Lehbrink & Jochen von Osterroth. Publisher's glossy photographic covers. One bump to corner; a near fine copy. A comprehensive history of the Aston Martin marque, including..... More
The Sports Car Development & Design. Drawings by John Dunscombe
London: Batsford, 1957. [Motoring] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.224, illustrated with black & white plates. Publisher's hardcovers in dust-wrapper priced at 25s. Very good in like wrapper with some chips and tears. A history of the sports car and their manufacturers including Mercedes, Bentley, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari..... More
'The Case of Mr. Fleming' by Bernard Bergonzi, contained within Twentieth Century magazine, March 1958.
London: Printed at the Whitefriars Press, [1958]. [Literary Critique] FIRST APPEARANCE of this famous, controversial essay on the morality of Ian Fleming's novels. Magazine format. Pp.193-288. Original price 2s 6d. Some handling and toning; near fine. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with his pencilled ownership signature. Professor Bergonzi's landmark piece concerned..... More
The Letters of Ann Fleming [Proof and first edition copies].
London: Collins Harvill, 1985. [Letters] two volumes; PROOF and FIRST EDITION. Bibliographer's copies. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.448. Publisher's green softcovers with proof-only jacket, or blue hardcovers with dust-jacket. Endpapers show Ann Fleming's family tree. Illustrated with two suites of black and white photographs (no plates within proofs). Some light..... More
Amaryllis Fleming.
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 293; [1], blank. With a suite of photographic plates. Bound in the publisher's green cloth blocked in cream, patterned endpapers, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £20. Autographed to the title page in our presence. Contents clean, page edges..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
Jonathan Cape, 1965. Octavo. Original green wrappers, lettered in black and decorated with white publisher's motif. A near-fine copy, spine creased otherwise in excellent condition for a proof copy. Uncorrected proof copy, Kingsley Amis's first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote a light-hearted work The Book..... More
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond.
Bloomsbury, 2008. Quarto. Original red illustrated boards and endpapers, spine lettered in red. With dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with photographs from the Fleming and EON archives, many of which are in colour. Bookseller's sticker on front panel, otherwise a fine copy. First edition, first impression, of this superb reference book..... More
The Life of Ian Fleming; [together with] James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007. The Life consisting of three book-form editions and two magazine appearances: as James Bond alias Ian Fleming [in: Life Magazine, vol. 61, nos. 15-16, 7 & 14 October 1966] and as James Bond's Last Victim [in: Reader's Digest, vol. 93, no. 556, August 1968].
Jonathan Cape; Pan Books; Reader's Digest Association; and Time Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois, 1966-68. 6 volumes. Proof copy in wrappers with dust jacket; first edition hardcover with jacket; others in wrappers. With many half-tone illustrations from photographs. Proof with creasing to spine and spotting to edges; first edition with rubbing to..... More
'Casino Royale' advert within 'Now and Then' Magazine. No. 88, Spring 1953.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. [1953]. [Journal] Pp.24. Price 6d. Magazine format, illustrated. Staples rusted, two small ink 'x' marks to final page of ads. Near fine. This issue contains a portrait sketch of Ian Fleming (p.8) as used on the jacket of Casino Royale, also features an advert for the..... More
'Live & Let Die' announcement within 'Now and Then' Magazine. No. 90, Autumn 1953.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. [1953]. [Journal] Pp.24. Price 6d. Magazine format, illustrated. Fine. This issue contains an advance notice of Ian Fleming's second novel Live & Let Die, "which will be published next year, James Bond of the British Secret Service is again the hero" Gilbert A2a 'Advertising', p.63... More
Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Issue 1, March 1976.
USA: Banana Bread Publications, 1976. [James Bond fan magazine] Pp.52. Magazine format, stapled, with sketches and photographs throughout. Includes a James Bond magazine bibliography. A rare piece of 'Bondiana'. Minor toning. Fine. A particularly early and scarce James Bond fanzine, published and edited by Michael France (credited as' Mike France')..... More
[contribute to] The Story of James Bond. A Tribute to Ian Fleming.
[London] 2008. An illustrated colour programe for the gala event celebrating the Ian Fleming Centenary held at the London Palladium on 5th October 2008. Pp.28, magazine format, illustrated. A fine copy. Includes an extract text 'From Russia With love (1957), articles from Lucy Fleming & Kate Grimond (Ian Fleming's nieces)..... More
Yours Ever, Ian Fleming.
New Zealand: Privately Published (Printed by Printhouse Nelson) 1994. [Letters] FIRST (and only) EDITION. Author's PRESENTATION COPY, together with two handwritten letters. Octavo, a softcover original, pp.112. Signed inscription to half-title "To James Pickard / Best Wishes / J Lenart." With two loose related manuscript letters, one signed, one initialled..... More
Ian Fleming related group lot comprising: The Diamond Smugglers, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Spy's Bedside Book, For Bond Lovers Only, biographies etc.
Pan Books, Granada, Fontana, Dell, Panther, and others, 1960s-90s. PAPERBACKS. Fourteen volumes, octavos. A collection of vintage paperback editions (various printings, some firsts) of Ian Fleming and related texts. Some expected wear from reading, signs of ownership, but no significant defects; overall very good. More
Group of three 'Talking Storybooks' comprising: Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me and A View To a Kill.
Florida: Kid Stuff Records and Tapes, n.d [1970s-80s]. [Story book adaptation] Three original 'talking book' sets, consisting of colour picture book and cassette recording housed in a clear bag with printed card hanger. All three are fine and unopened (not play tested). An unusual storybook adaptation of three Ian Fleming..... More
'Personality of the Month: Ian Fleming- James Bond's Better Half' contained within 'Books and Bookmen' magazine. Vol. 1, No 8, May 1956.
London: Hansom Books, 1956. [James Bond literary reference] FIRST (and only) APPEARANCE. Pp.48. Magazine format stapled twice, fully illustrated. Original price 2s. The article appears on p.15, with a vignette photograph of the author. A clean, fine copy. A scarce, early profile of Fleming at a relatively early stage of..... More
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A', British export/colonial copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], bank. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping. Contents clean, edges gently toned/spotted commensurate with the..... More
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [2], bank. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with embossed skeleton hand design to upper board, gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper illustrated by Richard Chopping priced 15s. Very good in similar jacket, with a little edge..... More
'The Ian Fleming Legend' within 'Vogue' magazine.
London & New York: Conde Nast Publications, Inc. November 1963. [Lifestyle] FIRST APPEARANCE of this profile of Ian Fleming by his close friend Robert Harling. Pp.166. Magazine format, fully illustrated. Original price 3s. Light handling and wear; near fine. Rather scarce. A biographical account of James Bond novelist Ian Fleming..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond (Omnibus). Comprising; Moonraker, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Chancellor Press, 1994. [James Bond omnibus] FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.847; [1]. blank. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in illustrated dust-wrapper, illustrative dust-jacket in the same design. No inscriptions or ownership markings. Pages a little toned otherwise fine. An attractive omnibus edition with action-packed movie-style illustrated artwork..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond (Omnibus). Comprising; Moonraker, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Chancellor Press, 1994. [Spy novel omnibus] FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.847; [1]. blank. Publisher's pictorial hardcovers in illustrated dust-wrapper, illustrative dust-jacket in the same design. Contents clean, pages a little toned as usual otherwise fine. An attractive omnibus edition with action-packed movie-style illustrated artwork. Bibliographer..... More