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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…

First Edition. [Reference/ Literary criticism] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Pp.192. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 3/6. Cheap paper stock browned as usual, gentle spine roll, rubbed at joints. Very good. A former book illustrator and intelligence operative in Russia, Oswald Frederick [Fred] Snelling was a highly regard…

[Thriller] PAN PAPERBACK EDITION, second printing. 'Great Pan' series GP83. Pp.247. Publisher's illustrated softcovers without original price (export copy). Some light wear, joints rubbed; very good indeed. From the comprehensive James Bond collection assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled signature within). His comprehensive guide…

First Edition. [James Bond Continuation] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION (with additional content), first printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[xiv]; 476; [22], endmatter. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, priced at £7.99. Fine / as new. A James Bond adventure set in Afghanistan and Dubai, written by acclaimed thriller writer Jeffrey Deav…

First Edition. [Spy thriller] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.294. Publisher's softcovers, illustrated by David Scutt. Edges gently toned, some minor handling. Near fine. High Time To Kill, set in the Himalayas, is the The first 007 novel in 'The Union' trilogy. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming:…

First Edition. [Thriller] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.221; [3], ads. Publisher's softcovers priced at 3/6. A very good copy. P.o.n. to first page. Geoffrey Jenkins was a South African thriller writer of the 'Ian Fleming school', and a protege of the James Bond author, working under Fleming in the Foreign depa…

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. [Literary biography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.x; 486. With photographic plates. Publisher's photographic softcovcers, priced at £8.99. Carefully read, covers show minor handling. Near fine. This copy is from the comprehensive collection of Jon Gilbert (pencilled signatu…

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.…

First Edition. [Bond reference] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.126; [2], endmatter. Bound in pictorial card covers priced at 5s. to front. No owner names or writing. Usual toning to cheap paper. A near fine copy, with some inevitable sunning to the spine panel. A paperback original. An unusual piece of vintage Bondiana…

FIRST Pan paperback edition, Canadian Printing. Series No.X434. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's photographic softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel. Usual toning to cheap paperstock, covers clean, spine rolled, some reading creases; very good. Not to be confused with UK export copies also priced at…

[thriller] FIRST Pan paperback edition, Canadian Printing. Series No.X527. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's photographic softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel. Pages are browned as expected, spine a little rolled, minor rubs; near fine. Not to be confused with UK export copies priced at 60c, the To…

dj. [Children's classic] Vintage hardback in a single volume; originally published in three volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.128. Illustrated by John Burningham. Gilt-titled orange cloth with green endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. Clean ex-library copy with a neat stamp to the copyright page, 'withdrawn' stamp on endpapers, lib…

[James Bond Film] Magazine format (31 x 23cm), pp.[24]. Notes on the plot, leading actors, and key production team, brief biography of Ian Fleming. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. A fine copy. Published to accompany the hit James Bond film based on the no…

dj. [Spy novel] Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xii]; 240; [4]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and yellow leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket in grey, titled in white and red. A little toning and spotting, jacket sunned t…

First Edition. FIRST EDITION in paperback. Slim octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.234; [6], advertisements. Pictorial card wrappers with the classic die-cut bullet hole design by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 3/6. No owner names/inscriptions. Some expected toning, minor spine lean. Near fine. The first of the popular Hawkey-inspired uniform 'X…

First Edition. [Bond] The true first paperback edition. Octavo (18 x 11cm), Signet Books' series P2712. Pp.160. Publisher's illustrated softcovers with original price 60c to upper panel, all edges tinted red. Pages a little tanned as expected, book store stamp to flyleaf, some minor handling and soiling; very good indeed. Publis…

dj. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xiv]; 436. Publisher's red cloth blocked with metallic red foil, metallic 'smoke effect' endpapers, illustrated white dust-jacket priced at £19.99. An as-new copy, carefully dark stored by ourselves since publication. A James Bond adventure set in Afghanistan and Dubai, written by…

dj. First Edition. [Psychological Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.366 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and burgundy endpapers. With the dust-jacket deigned by Claire Ward, priced at £12.99. Toned to edges, with some…

Magazine format in pictorial glossy card wraps, stapled at spine. Pp.34. 'A Deluxe Limited Edition Publication' with colour photographs throughout. Fine / as new. Includes a tribute to the James Bond cover artist Raymond Hawkey by Edward Milward-Oliver, SIGNED by contributor Jon Gilbert. 007 Magazine is the definitive journal on…

dj. First Edition. [Spy thriller] FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.152. Publisher's mid-blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by C H Richard. A fine copy in a near fine jacket, toned to the spine. 70,000 copies were printed, a lower number than the Jonathan Cape first edi…

dj. [Spy novel] Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 183 [1]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and blue leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge blue; fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket in blue-grey, titled in yellow. A nice clean copy internally, with a couple of marks…

dj. First Edition. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £1.50. Some light general wear, small ding to top of rear wrapper panel and lower board. Very Good. Adventure caper featuring the sardonic and resourceful British agent Idwal Rees, w…