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19653534London: Jonathan Cape 1965. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Third issue state First Edition A13aC17 - "First Published 1965" 221 pages complete. Green and white japanese washi style endpapers. The black cloth covered boards are blank i.e.: no decoration/ illustration/ silhouette. The boards have evidence of use. The spine has gold titling. The text block has evidence of handling with some foxing. Some rubbing to rear board. Spine slightly cocked. Tight sound binding; What makes this an unusual variant is that the half-title is on TWO lines rather than one i.e. THE MAN/ with the GOLDEN GUN. The THIRD ISSUE accounts for just 3000 copies of the 82000-strong first edition. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover
1964010603London: Jonathan Cape 1964 VG tidy first edition first state black papered boards tidy unclipped DW vertical edges of the DW fold in flaps have some tape staining tiny amount of wear or splitting to DW spine ends faint dust soiling to closed edges. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Richard Chopping. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1965012811London: Jonathan Cape 1965 first impression of first edition excellent copy unclipped jacket with small blemish to fore edge upper book board a small spot of rubbing green patterned endpapers second state without the gun imprint to the upper board. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Richard Chopping. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1965355490716334London: Cape 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. FIRST UK EDITION SECOND ISSUE WITH WHITE END-PAPERS. A VG or better copy in like D/W showing 18s net to the inside flap as called for. This is the very rare variant with the white end-papers that were used by the printers when the green and white patterned end-papers ran out. One of just 3024 copies of this issue bound with plain end-papers. Becoming scarce. Cape hardcover
1947355490713953London 1947. First Edition. Dust Jacket. Ian Fleming Alphabet & Image Numbers 5 & 7 September 1947 and May 1948. Published by Art & Technics Ltd. Softback publications with D/Ws. A fine set. Both issues come with loose folded single-sheet inserts entitled Stop Press. The 1947 insert details a competition devised and to be judged by Ian Fleming. The 1948 insert has adjudication. The first insert precedes Flemings December 1947 Horizon piece. Fine and very rare as a set together.
1956355490719843London: Pan 1956. First Edition. London: Pan Books Ltd 1956. First UK Paperback Edition. A Softback. Pan 392. Some foxing to the page block edges still a near fine or slightly better copy with no fading whatsoever to the spine and no creases to the wraps. None of the usual wear to the spine tips and a really bright copy. Faint reading crease to the spine. A much nicer copy than normally seen of the scarcer Fleming paperback first editions. "A world of rich food and drink of expensive clubs of racing Bentleys card-sharping counter espionage and lovely women". Great cover art by the late Josh Kirby. Photographs/scans available upon request. Pan paperback
1955012142New York: The Macmillan Company 1955. Nice copy of first printing in dark gray textured cloth and gold stmaping to spine and front board. Unmarked tight and square with first printing stated on copyright page. Jacket has light soiling to back panel but no tears chips or creases. Spine of jacket has moderate edgewear to spine ends with minimal paper loss. Author's second Bond adventure is scarce and even more so in this condtion. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Front flap of jacket has price intact but two additional clips that is common in the book one of which was publishers indecision on which price it would have. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine to Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Macmillan Company Hardcover
1956355490718213London 1956. First Edition. London: World Books The Reprint Society Ltd 1956. First Edition. Broadsheet describes itself as "The Bulletin of World Books". Contains an article by Ian Fleming: "I write thrillers for people who like to be taken out of this world". This is an edited version of Fleming's longer article "How to Write a Thriller" and is printed with the portrait of Ian Fleming with a handgun as used on the rear panel of the US first edition of From Russia with Love. Gilbert C.59 page 556. Folded in 4 as produced. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request.
1947355490712575London: Shand 1947. First Edition. Soft Cover. Alphabet and Image 5 James Shand 1947 and Alphabet and Image 7 James Shand 1948 both edited by Robert Harling. Original stiff wrappers. Both issues are in VG condition. Included in the No 5 issue is an insert entitled A & I: STOP PRESS a 4-page Supplement to Alphabet and Image. On page 4 is the announcement of a competition devised by Ian Fleming to evolve a 27th character for the alphabet. Mr Fleming will be the sole judge. The prize is a book token of 5 guineas. Issue No 7 has a similar insert with the results of the competition over three pages. Rare. For the pair: Shand paperback
1961018448London: Jonathan Cape 1961. Nice copy in its first UK printing. Unmarked tight and square. Hint of lean. Black cloth boards with lightly bumped tip. Price intact jacket has short tape repai on verso of spine at head. Light to moderate wear to spine ends but almost no paper loss. In mylar. . First U.K. Edition. Hardccover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus to Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jonathan Cape
1965355490718143London: Pan 1965. London: Pan Books Ltd 14th Printing reset 1965 WITH THE SCARCE DOMINO LETTER. A near fine copy with a crease to the front cover whereas the Domino Letter in fine condition. Promotional copy for Player's Cigarettes with Domino letter included. This is the correct 14th printing used for this promotion which includes a printed note purportedly handwritten by Domino to James Bond. The first issue status of the printed note is proven by the presence of a watermark which can be clearly seen when the letter is placed up to the light. The letter mentions Player's Cigarettes asking Bond to read pages 152 -155 in the accompanying book unashamedly mentioning Player's Cigarettes. The letter measures 227mm × 149 mm and is folded twice as called for. A very attractive copy of a scarce piece of Bondiana. Photographs/scans available upon request. Pan
1964355490717375London: Cape 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. SCARCE VARIANT WITH WIDER FRONT AND REAR FLAPS WITH ALL FOUR CORNERS UN-CLIPPED. The Book itself is a first edition first printing published by Cape in 1964. The D/W is is the final proof D/W printed on slightly thicker paper stock and is regarded as a final proof state. A VG copy in a VG lightly rubbed to the front hand edge of the front cover and the left hand edge of the rear cover. The D/W though is lovely and bright D/W with a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. A nice copy of an uncommon variant. Cape hardcover
1965355490718030London: Cape 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition THIRD ISSUE. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated green endpapers. Slightest bumping to tail of spine very short ink name and date to half-title page otherwise contents remain crisp clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; near fine in like price-clipped D/W. Overall a very handsome copy of a previously unrecorded issue with the reset half-title as noted in the publisher's ledger: "This rather elusive issue was produced extensively for export to Canada.invariably found with price-clipped jackets". What makes this an unusual variant is that the half-title is on TWO lines rather than one i.e. THE MAN/ with the GOLDEN GUN. The THIRD ISSUE accounts for just 3000 copies of the 82000-strong first edition. Rare. Photographs/scans available upon request. Cape hardcover
1959012596New York: The Macmillan Company 1959. Nice copy of first printing. Vintage bookplate on front pastedown small and nice. No other markings. Tight and square. Clean copy. Jacket is bright and fresh but has light toning and tiny amount of rubbing on rear panel. Front flap priceclipped at both corners. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine to Fine/Near Fine to Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Macmillan Company Hardcover
19543554907189001954. New York; McCall Corporation May 1954. A US Softback Magazine Publication. Volume 99 No. 1. Contains a 39-page extract from Live and Let Die together with a superb colour-illustrated front cover by John Walton sub-titled Voodoo Spy Novel: Live and Let Die. Cheap paper inevitably and pages lightly browned. Minor closed tears to the right hand edge of the front cover and some creasing to the covers and a touch of loss to the head and tail of the spine still a VG copy in full colour full wrap-around pictorial wraps. Inside the magazine is clean without any writing. This magazine extract of Live and Let Die is important in that it is the first printing of Live and Let Die in the USA. The UK hardback first edition of Live and Let Die was published on May 5 1954 and it was not published in the USA as a first edition until 1955. It is impossible to tell what date in May 1954 this edition of Bluebook Magazine was published but it is irrefutably the first US publication of Live and Let Die. Live and Let Die appears on pp. 88-128 of the magazine printed in double columns and the magazine also contains work by P.G.Wodehouse The Ordeal Of Bingo Little Richard Matheson and John D. MacDonald. Rare. Only the second copy that I have seen. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
1956012597New York: The Macmillan Company 1956. Nice copy of first printing which is stated on copyright page. Light gray boards with red and black lettering and design on spine and front board. Boards are fresh with sharp tips. Spine ends cupped a bit. No markings. Tight and square. Clean copy. Jacket has light wear with minor paper loss at spine ends light tanning at front flap with fairly long crease and rubbing on rear panel. Jacket has price intact $2.75 but front flap clipped at bottom. Jacket is now protected in mylar. Scarce now in first printing. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus to Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Macmillan Company Hardcover
1965355490717390London: Cape 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition THIRD ISSUE. Very good indeed a hint of foxing to the page block edges in like slightly-creased price-clipped D/W with a touch of minor edge wear. A previously unrecorded issue with the reset half-title as noted in the publisher's ledger: "This rather elusive issue was produced extensively for export to Canada.invariably found with price-clipped jackets". What makes this an unusual variant is that the half-title is on TWO lines rather than one i.e. THE MAN/ with the GOLDEN GUN. The THIRD ISSUE accounts for just 3000 copies of the 82000-strong first edition. Rare. Cape hardcover
196125674London: Jonathan Cape 1961. First edition. 8vo publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine in the pictorial dustjacket. 254 pp. A very handsome and clean copy in a complete and only very lightly mellowed dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. Fleming’s books have had a staying power that few thriller-writers can match perhaps because Bond is such an intriguing and morally ambiguous hero. Some admire him as a suave supremely competent man of action who always gets the girl; others decry him a superficial playboy with a streak of sadism. According to Fleming “Bond is not a hero nor is he depicted as being very likeable or admirable. He is a Secret Service agent. He’s not a bad man but he is ruthless and self-indulgent. He enjoys the fight--he also enjoys the prizes. In fiction people used to have blood in their veins. Nowadays they have pond water.†<br> The ninth James Bond thriller finds the high-living superspy guzzling carrot juice in a recovery clinic until the shadowy SPECTRE forces him back into action. But who is SPECTRE and what are its nefarious plans Jonathan Cape hardcover
1961mbb000208London: Jonathan Cape 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 195x135x27mm. 195x135x27mm331g . . Jonathan Cape. London. 1961. First Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp253. Hard cloth boards with skeletal hand embossed on front board with gold lettering to spine. in original dust jacket. clipped. Book board top and foot corners are slightly bumped; head and foot of spine bumped; foxing to edges of block seen when book closed; a few fingermarks to pages - caused by the oils in fingers reacting with the paper - here and there; 4mm mark on page 45 through to 46; name on front paste down. Original dust jacket has light chipping to top edge; spine browned as are jacket edges; design by RICHARD CHOPPING. . . . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.20 1st Printing Jonathan Cape hardcover
1965355490719068London: Pan 1965. Dust Jacket. London: Pan Books Ltd 1965. First UK Paperback Edition with NOT FOR SALE IN U.K. on the rear cover. This is a near fine un-read copy with toned pages due to the poor quality of paper used with a tiny closed tear on the first page and faint evidence of a former price in pencil rubbed out. This copy has the exceedingly rare "Movie Tie-In" promotional dust wrapper. The D/W is clean and bright with a little 4mm at its deepest paper loss at the top of the spine a few minor creases and nicks and a date 1964 12 in either a dark pencil or a biro on the front. Unusually the joints which are usually worn have no wear whatsoever and scarce thus. All-in-all a near fine copy of this fragile item. These Movie Tie-In dust wrappers were added to a small number of copies of old stock of the paperback first edition to help clear old stock. Copies with this promotional wrapper are very rare and finding a genuine one in collectable condition is perhaps the most difficult challenge for a collector of Fleming first edition books. Photographs/scans available upon request. Pan paperback
196149115Jonathan Cape 1961. 8vo. First Edition; brown cloth upper board blocked with skeletal hand in blind gilt back top almost imperceptibly speckled a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter with one tony nick at lower corner of front panel. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Richard Chopping. Crisp copy of the ninth Bond novel the first of the Blofeld trilogy and the first to feature SPECTRE. Dustwrapper correctly priced at 15s. Gilbert A9a.1.1 binding A with backstrip lettered in gilt; Hubin p.288. Jonathan Cape, hardcover
19601291531960. First Edition. FLEMING Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape 1960. Octavo original black paper boards original dust jacket. $5600.First edition of Fleming's eighth Bond title the only collection of Bond short stories published in the author's lifetime including the title story ""From a View to a Kill"" and ""Quantum of Solace.""This five-story collection ""provided Fleming with an opportunity to reveal his fine ability to create powerful impressions of different environments The five stories were very varied but in each of them the rendition of the environment was a major theme in the text"" Black 40. The book is also notable for its jacket ""the only British dust jacket with any depiction of Bond: the eye in the peephole is his. Fleming made artist Richard Chopping paint it many times until he was satisfied with the shape and particularly the color"" Biondi & Pickard 46. ""For Your Eyes Only"" was made into the 1981 film starring Roger Moore and Carole Bouquet; the 1985 film A View to a Kill starred Moore Christopher Walken and Grace Jones; the 2008 film Quantum of Solace starred Daniel Craig. Title page printed in red and black. Gilbert A8a 1.1. Book clean and near-fine; price-clipped dust jacket bright with red lettering unfaded also near-fine. A lovely copy. hardcover
1963355490718732New York: Nel 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. New American Library September 1963. First US Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A contemporary non-authorial gift inscription on the FFEP otherwise a near fine copy in a price-clipped D/W that is VG indeed with a small chip from the top right hand edge of the back panel. The US first edition of this title is significantly rarer than its UK counterpart. SIGNED by IAN FLEMING on the HALF-TITLE. Although Fleming's usual practice was to sign on the FFEP it is perhaps understandable why on this occasion he decided to sign on the half-title because of the coloured end-papers and the gift inscription already there in another hand on the FFEP. Signed American first editions are uncommon and turn up far less frequently than their UK counterparts. The Fleming signature in this book is in blue biro and is somewhat faded but is a classic example of his hand. Photographs/scans available upon request. Nel hardcover
1963355490721638London: Cape 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. First UK Edition in First Issue dustwrapper. Publisher's original white cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards spine lettered in gilt black end-papers. With dustwrapper. A near fine copy slightly pushed spine tips and a couple of bumps to the corners. The dustwrapper is a fine and fresh example priced 30s net to the inside flap with absolutely no fading whatsoever to the fugitive pink spine. Inscribed by the Author to the title page: "To Harry/ from/ Ian". This copy has been in a private collection for more than 20 years. The identity of "Harry" is most likely to be Harry Saltzman the co-producer of the first 9 Bond films and this was certainly the understanding of its former owner. The book is housed in a custom-made black morocco-backed folding box. A lovely copy and priced to sell. Photographs/scans available upon request. Cape hardcover
1963355490719067London: Cape 1963. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. # 170 of 250 copies each signed by Ian Fleming. Colour frontispiece of the author by Charles Amherst Villiers. Publisher's quarter vellum over black cloth with gilt titles to the spine top edge gilt in the original clear plastic glassine wrapper. This is an absolutely fine copy in its original glassine wrapper which is also in fine condition. Exceedingly scarce in this condition. This was Fleming's only Signed Limited Edition and this is an outstanding copy in every respect. To find the original glassine in this condition is a real find. This copy was formerly owned by a long-deceased Swedish collector and a Fleming bibliographer in the 1970's. Impeccable provenance. Photographs/scans available upon request Cape hardcover
