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dj. First Edition. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.221 [3], blank. Publisher's blue-green cloth with silver titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket photographed by Roy Botterell. Near fine in similar price-clipped jacket, a trifle sunned to spine. Classic MacLean 'vendetta' novel, uncovering kidnap and b…

dj. First Edition. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 190; [2]. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 23s or £1.15 to front flap. Minor toning to edges of textblock, rolling to bottom of the spine, marking to dust-jacket spine. Near fine. Richard…

[Book review] Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[20]. Pamphlet, printed on 170gsm matt paper, staple bound in typographic red card covers. Edition limited to 75 numbered copies. A review of John Pearson's Ian Fleming: The Notes (Queen Anne Press), requested by The Book Collector in 2020. This is the original, unedited and previously unpubl…

First Edition. [Thriller] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo, pp.237; [3], ads. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 3/6, a film tie-in with stills and blurb from the 20th Century Fox Release, Cheap paperback text block toned as expected, reading creases to spine; very good. The first Modesty Blaise thriller, developed from…

First Edition. [Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION. A paperback original; published simultaneously with the Cape hardcover edition. Slim octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.189 [3]. Pictorial card wrappers. No insciptions, minor wear and handling. This is the original story / novel of the 1977 James Bond film 'The Spy Who Loved Me' written under…

dj. First Edition. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the black and yellow dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Some light offsetting to endpapers and browning to edges. Jacket rubbed and chipped to edges, with some loss to hea…

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…

[Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Rear hinge badly split, with fly-leaf detached; front fly-leaf nearly detached. Extremely heavily browned and brittle throughout. Quite heavy soiling to boards; spine sunned, with a chi…

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. [Amazon Thriller] FIRST EDITION, an export copy. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192 [4]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Colin Thomas, not priced. Light handling with some spotting to top edge. Light sunning to jacket spine. A crisp, near fine copy. Revenge novel…

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. [Action Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.318 [4]. Publisher's brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Roy Botterell. Near fine in similar price-clipped jacket, with usual sunning to spine, and a little rubbing and a few nicks to edges. A race-against-time no…

dj. First Edition. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Mike McInnerney, priced at £1.50 / 30s. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise crisp and clean, with a touch of toning to edges and one creased leaf. Jacket shows toni…

dj. First Edition. [Thriller / Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.238; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates, priced at £4.50. A little soiling to edges, marginal rub/chip to fore-edge of last few sections, jacket is fine. A Cold War sp…

dj. First Edition. [Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 191; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Very light spotting to edges of textblock, slight bumping to spine, minor fraying to edges of dust-jacket. Near fine. This is Moore's 1st novel and it follows the story of Martin Hob…

dj. First Edition. [Spy Thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with red metallic titles to spine, red paper over boards, and black and white photographic endpapers. With the gold dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey. Light spotting to edges, and a little wear to binding. Jacket…

dj. First Edition. [Adventure Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 305 [7]. With a map to preliminaries. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Gary Keane, not priced. Lightly handled. Fine. A classic Innes adventure, somehow linking the Khmer Rouge with an abandoned ai…

dj. First Edition. [Wartime Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.238 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with orange titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. An exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a little wear to jacket edges and spine. Near fine. Best-known for her First World War…

dj. First Edition. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy on low-grade economy paper. Just a little w…

dj. First Edition. [Second World War maritime thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.286 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Wright, priced at £8.95, with a publisher's sticker to the front flap. Toning and spotting to edges, otherwise a crisp, clean copy. A l…

dj. First Edition. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.253; [3], blank. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Brian Lubrani, with quote from Ian Fleming on the rear panel. Neat contemporary ink ownership. A bright copy with some accidental damp-marking to…

First Edition. [Thriller] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo, pp.284; [2], ads. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 5s. Cheap paperback text block toned as expected, gentle reading creases to spine; very good indeed. The second Modesty Blaise thriller from author Peter O'Donnell, had adapted into comic-form Ian Fleming's J…