Fleming Related Thrillers
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The Mask Of Dimitrios.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. FIRST EDITION. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Internally very clean with no ownership marks, bookplates or inscriptions. Covers are fresh but for a little sunning to spine, a few small marks and the... More
Mr. Standfast.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1919. Advance proof copy. 8vo. Publisher's original plain brown wraps, slightly spotted with minor edgewear. Internally clean, unifom light toning to page block. A most unusual and scarce advance proof copy of Mr. Standfast, one of Buchan's scarcer Richard Hannay stories. Protected by a tailor-made brown... More
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The Thirty-Nine [39] Steps,
London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. [Espionage classic]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.253; [2], adverts. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue oasis, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, gilt titles to upper cover, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A little of the usual edge toning to the cheap wartime paper... More
The Big Sleep.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.302. Publisher's black cloth with red titles and trim. Edges a little toned, joints a touch rubbed. A clean, near fine example. The author's first book, introducing Philip Marlowe; cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Chandler's writing was... More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File No.3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's hardcover, printed black endpapers, dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 18s. A lightly used copy with some acceptable wear and toning, a couple of small nicks to jacket; very good. Basis for the classic... More
Yesterday's Spy.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1975. Spy thriller, set in the dangerous world of Arab gun-running. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. No inscriptions, price-clipped to flap. A lovely fine copy. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960's James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books... More
Yesterday's Spy.
London: Jonathan Cape. 1975. Spy thriller, set in the dangerous world of Arab gun-running. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. No inscriptions, spine a touch sunned. Near fine. With... More
The Great Spy Race.
London: Michael Joseph, 1968. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in Richard Chopping-esque pictorial dust-jacket designed by Broom Lynne. Top edge a little dusty, spine a shade toned else a clean, fine copy. Typical 'sixties James Bond cash-in, complete with a.... More
Romance of a Spy.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1945. Octavo, pp.192. Bound in publisher's green cloth, in a green pictorial dustjacket depicting characters from the book with a map. Advertisements to rear panel. Cloth in excellent condition with very limited signs of wear. Dustjacket creased with several minor losses, although colour remains very bright... More
Founder Member
London: Frederick Muller 1969. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, Publisher's dark blue cloth, slight lean to spine, lovely fresh pages, fine. Photographic dustwrapper with a little wear to extremities and a few tiny scratches to the spine, near fine. A Boysie Oakes spy thriller written before Gardner's stint as the official James... More
The Liquidator.
London: Frederick Muller, 1964. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.204; [4], blank. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Derrick Holmes, priced at 18s. Minor dustiness, jacket with a tiny nick at crown, minor laminate shrinkage. A near fine, bright example of... More
The Embassy Case.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1915. First Edition. An early espionage novel featuring Billy Fitz-Urse of the Foreign Office. Crown Ocvtavo, pp.304; [1], advertisements. With a frontispiece illustration by Gilbert. Publisher's original wine coloured embossed cloth with titles in black to spine and upper. A little foxing to the... More
A Grue of Ice
London: Collins 1962. FIRST EDITION. Pp.320. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in prictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by H.A.Darroll (who designed the Fleming-introduced All Night at Mr Stanyhurst's) The dustjacket features a quote from Ian Fleming on the rear panel. A used copy, the jacket showing some..... More
The Guns of Navarone.
London: Collins, 1957. [WWII adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.318; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Edges of text block a little toned, price-clipped wrapper faintly edgeworn with slight toning to spine. A clean, near fine copy. One of the author's most popular titles... More
Chance Awakening
London: Souvenir Press. 1977. Espionage thriller. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.251. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial dust-wrapper. Light general wear. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A very good copy indeed. Author's third novel. Markstein was a prolific writer in the espionage genre who scripted two hugely popular series for television; 'Danger... More
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George G. Harrap, 1935. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Large octavo, pp.318. With 12 fine colour plates and 17 line drawings, captioned tissues, pictorial endpapers. Publisher's gilt-pictorial black cloth, top edge coloured black. Trivial wear to spine tips. A beautiful, fine copy. Poe was a writer of genius who was interested... More
The Sins of Sumuru.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.224. In publisher's bright red cloth titled and trimmed in in black, with original illustrated dust-jacket. A lovely fine copy in a lightly used, price-clipped wrapper. One of Mr. Rohmer's increasingly elusive (but always cool) Sumuru titles, featuring the female equivalent of Fu... More
The Secret Hand
London: Herbert Jenkins 1919. Espionage novel, sub-titled 'Some Further Adventures by Desmond Okewood of the British Secret Service'. First Edition. Octavo, pp.320. Publisher's red cloth lettered and ruled in black. Internally clean, some edge-spotting. A near fine copy. More
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