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[Literary and film Reference] 'SILVER' edition, SIGNED by the author. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.292, printed on Munken Lynx paper. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with a colour frontispiece and 32 colour plates. Bound in full graphite buckram, blocked in two-colour metallic foils with silver titles to front cover, red an…

[Literary and film Reference] 'RED' edition, SIGNED by the author. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.292, printed on Munken Lynx paper. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with a colour frontispiece and 32 colour plates. Bound in full graphite buckram, blocked in two-colour metallic foils with metallic red titles to the front cover,…

dj. First Edition. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.318. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced 18s. A clean ex-library copy with one stamp to endpaper, shelf number written to copyright page, otherwise rather lightly used, jacket with a couple of neat tears at crown. Phyllis Bottom…

dj. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION, second printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's hardback cloth in a pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Richard Chopping priced 18s. Text block a little dusty, jacket spotted to rear. Very good. The author's debut novel set in Eton College. This title was reviewed upon publication by I…

dj. [James Bond novel] Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.240. UK book club edition, stated 'Second Printing'. Black cloth-effect paper over boards, gilt titles, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Trevor Scobie. Slight toning to text block else a fine, fresh copy in jacket. John Gardner's sixth original novel starring Commander Bond, set in…

dj. First Edition. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.352. With two suites of sixteen photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25. A fine, as-new copy. Subtitled 'The Extraordinary story of Charles Amherst Villiers', th…

dj. [Spy novel] Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.211 [13]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and red leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the sand-coloured dust-jacket. A nice clean copy with just a couple of chips to jacket edges, and some li…

dj. First Edition. [Espionage] Hardback reissue, with a new introduction and afterword. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.296. Illustrated with a suite of black and white plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, photographic dust-wrapper. A near fine copy. An informative history of wartime Naval Intelligence, Britain's senior inte…

dj. First Edition. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 244 [2]. Publisher's navy quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and blue paper over boards. With the dust-jacket priced at $15.95. A fine, as-new copy. Westlake wrote two screen treatments for a James Bond film, which were unused…

dj. First Edition. [Crime Novellas] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 182 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Greg Couch, priced at $14.95. A fine, as-new copy. Westlake wrote two screen treatments for a James Bond film, whi…

dj. First Edition. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 310. Publisher's green cloth with white titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Abis Stribley, priced at 25s. Edges a little toned, jacket a little edge worn, some rubs to extremities. Very good. Fourth in the Boysie O…

dj. First Edition. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4]; 296; [1], Acknowledgements; [2], Map; [1], Note. Publisher's black cloth boards blocked in silver, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced £12.99 to the rear panel. No inscriptions. A very good copy with a few small nicks to j…

dj. First Edition. [Detective novel] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, dust-wrapper priced at 16s. No ink names. Edges gently spotted, jacket with some light rubs and a couple of short tears. Another case for the eccentric oversized New York armchair…

dj. First Edition. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 184 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with purple titles to spine, untrimmed textblock edges. With the dust-jacket designed by Jack Wolf, priced at $4.50. A fine, as-new copy. Westlake wrote two screen treatments for a James Bond film, which…

dj. First Edition. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 183 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine, untrimmed textblock edges. With the dust-jacket designed by Muni Leiblein, priced at $4.50. A fine, as-new copy. The second in the Alan Grofield series. Westlake wrote two scree…

dj. [James Bond] FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.189 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth, black titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Internally bright and clean. Cloth spine sunned. Spotting/marking to jacket reverse and rear exterior panel. Jacket joints rubbed. Mild edgewear. Very good. The tenth book in th…

dj. First Edition. [Oil industry reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto. (29 x 22cm), pp.143; [1], blank. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Publisher's gilt-stamped grey buckram, illustrated dust-jacket. A clean, fine copy. From the collection of Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within), used while writing his bibliography of Flem…

dj. First Edition. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 278 [2]. Publisher's grey paper over boards with black titles to spine. With the grey and black dust-jacket, priced at $22.95. A fine as-new copy. Westlake wrote two screen treatments for a James Bond film, which were unused and so de…

dj. First Edition. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6] 297 [1]. Publisher's orange paper over boards with black titles to spine. With the orange and black dust-jacket, priced at $23.95. A fine, as-new copy. Westlake wrote two screen treatments for a James Bond film, which were unused and…

[Literary memoir] First edition, fourth printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 370. Illustrated with four suites of photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, illustrated jacket priced £20. Neat ink name to free endpaper. Text block slightly toned else fine. Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO…

dj. First Edition. [Anglo-Tibetan history] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.319; [1]. Profusely illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge red, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net. Contents and edges clean, jacket with a small scuff/sti…

dj. First Edition. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine illustrated dust-jacket priced at 10s 6d. Contents clean, no ink inscriptions, jacket with some chips to spine, some marks to rear. Very good. Winston Clewes was an English novelist whose work was adap…

FIRST HARDBACK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[x]; 254; [1], Acknowledgements; [3], advertisements. Publisher's hardcover volume in red, black and silver boards, patterned red endpapers with repeated series logo, all edges red. Lightly handled; near fine. The fifth and final novel by Charlie Higson in the acclaimed 'Young Bond'…

First Edition. [Card game] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's yellow cloth hardcovers blocked in black. Contents clean, edges toned, covers lightly handled. Near fine. Includes the laws of of the game as published by The Sunday Times. A source book consulted by Ian Fleming while writing Goldfinger (1959), the…

dj. First Edition. [Spy thriller] FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.152. Publisher's mid-blue cloth lettered in black to spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by C H Richard. No inscriptions. A little spotted and dusty. Near fine. 70,000 copies were printed, a lower number than the Jonathan Cape first editio…

dj. First Edition. [Espionage] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.190. Black cloth lettered in silver, without flyleaves (as all were issued), photographic dust-wrapper priced at £1.75. Some dustiness, top edge and endpapers spotted, small nick to jacket near spine. Very good. An informative history of spycraft, from an exper…

dj. First Edition. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.350; [4], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Terry Haddler. Contents clean, most discreet ink ownership to margin, jacket price clipped. A clean fine copy. Aviation mystery set in the present day [1976], concerning t…

dj. First Edition. [International airline mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.188. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, with illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. Some spotting, owner's surname to front endpaper, jacket is near fine. The rear panel carries reviews for the author's previous thriller, likened to Ja…

First Edition. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.183 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with yellow titles to spine. The book price of 850 Lira is printed on the rear pastedown. Cheap paper browned as expected, bookseller's slips loosely inserted, a few minor marks to covers. Near fine, without the wrapper.…