Fleming Related Thrillers
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
The Courts of the Morning. A Richard Hannay novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.405 + [8]. advertisements. Elegantly hand-bound in half green oasis morocco leather, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides. Faint edge-spotting else a fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. A dramatic series of adventures which take place... More
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The Thirty-Nine [39] Steps.
London, William Blackwood and Sons. 1915. FIRST EDITION: 8vo. pp. 253 + pp. 2 ads. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in dark blue. Cheap paper stock means some toning and browning, cloth is a touch sunned to spine, endpapers pulled at joints. Very good indeed. The famous novel which introduced... More
The Thirty-Nine Steps.
London/Edinburgh, Blackwood and Sons, 1915. Espionage classic. FIRST EDITION: 8vo. pp. 253 + pp. 2 ads. Publisher's light blue cloth, titled in dark blue. Light and marginal browning to page edges, first gathering a little pulled, faint erasure to flyleaf, spine slightly cocked. The cloth is exceptionally clean and bright... More
Farewell My Lovely.
New York: Knopf 1940. Crime novel. FIRST EDITION, octavo. Publisher's russet coloured cloth, trimmed in blue. Book is very good but for a dampmark to spine, owner name to pastedown and place of purchase to copyright page. Supplied with an attractive facsimile jacket. Raymond Thornton Chandler's crime stories and novels... More
The Big Sleep.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo., pp. 302. Publisher's black cloth with red titles and trim. Some acceptable wear; pages toned, a couple of faint splashes to boards, short tear to hear of spine; very good. The author's first book, introducing Philip Marlowe; cool, sharp, handsome - and... More
The Ring.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1967. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper, designed by the author. A used copy with some dustiness and toning to edges, spine panel spotted. A serviceable example of the author's second novel, a frank portrait of the squalid side of gay life in London in... More
An Expensive Place to Die
London: Jonathan Cape. 1967. Cold War -era spy thriller, set in Paris. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's cloth in original dust-wrapper. Near fine, with a slight lean to book and jacket a touch sunned to the backstrip. Includes the original loose 'In Transit Docket', assembled by Raymond Hawkey... 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 or price-clipping. A fine copy. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960's James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. Milward-Oliver; Len... 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 or price-clipping. A lovely fine copy. The jacket artwork is by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960's James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. With... 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 Human Factor.
London:The Bodley Head, 1978. First Edition, First Issue, with bust motif imprint (later replaced with publisher's monogram). Octavo. pp.339. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles, top edge tinted green. With dustwrapper; cream with red and brown lettering. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A near fine copy but for some mild... More
Our Man in Havana.
London: William Heinemann, 1958. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.273. Bound in recent black half morocco with gilt titles to spine, black cloth boards; publisher's original gilt entitled blue cloth spine bound in at rear. Edgespotting to textblock, externally fine. An attractive copy. Greene's classic comic thriller, memorably brought to the screen... More
The Third Man, and The Fallen Idol.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1966. BIBLIOGRAPHER'S COPY. Small Octavo, pp.195. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original illustrated dust-jacket Minor toning to spine otherwise a fine copy of this reprinted edition, previously belonging to the Graham Greene bibliographer Ronald Wobbe, with his ownership stamp to the... 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
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 Tailor of Panama.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1996. FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo, pp.410. Hardcover in dust-jacte. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A trifle used; near fine. Legal thriller from the award-winning novelist; Harry Pendel is the best known tailor in Panama and is hired by all the top brass. But his past is made... More
The Guns of Navarone.
London: Collins, 1957. First Edition. Octavo, pp.318. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper shows three streaks of fire from the eponymous guns against a dark sky, with titles to front cover, titles to spine, and publisher's advertisment for H.M.S. Ulysses, MacLean's bestselling first... More
The Satan Bug.
London: Collins, 1962. Spy fiction. FIRST EDITION of this scarce title. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark blue calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides. Internally clean; a fine copy in a handsome leather binding. The second thriller written by Maclean under his pseudonym Ian Stuart. 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
The Pass Beyond Kashmir.
London: Collins. 1960. Pp.320. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket illustrated by Barbara Waltron. Some toning to edges, otherwise this is a lovely fine copy in the striking colour jacket, with the scarce 'Ian Fleming says' wraparound band (with one short tear) which reprints a seven-line section of Fleming's review... More
Knock-Out. A Bulldog Drummond Novel.
London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1933. Two-fisted adventure. First Edition. 8vo. Near fine in publisher's light blue cloth titled in black to spine and front board, light bumping to spine ends. In a fine dustwrapper, very minor edgewear and marginal wear, outstandingly clean, bright and crisp. internally clean, light spotting to... More
Bull-Dog Drummond. The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull
New York: Doran 1920. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp.i-vii; 9-310. Publisher's tan cloth trimmed in red, without jacket. One or two minor marks otherwise fine. Following a single appearance in The Strand magazine, this is the first book-length outing for the two-fisted adventurer Captain Hugh 'Bull-dog' Drummond, DSO, MC, an... More