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
Farewell My Lovely.
New York: Knopf 1940. Crime novel. FIRST EDITION, octavo. Publisher's russet coloured cloth, trimmed in blue. Owner name 'Mildred S. Martin' to flyleaf and title page, marginal tape marks to rear flylealf. Supplied with an attractive facsimile jacket. Raymond Thornton Chandler's crime stories and novels were of immense stylistic influence... 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
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 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 Tailor of Panama.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1996. FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo, pp.410. Hardcover in dust-jacket. No inscriptions or price-clipping. A trifle used, minor toning to page edges; 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... 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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