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John Gardner. Licence to Kill - EX - LIBRARY COPY. The Armchair Detective Library, 1989.
Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: HARDBACK - EX LIBRARY COPY - A good or better copy bound in the red library cloth covers that are clean. Internally, the book has the usual library stamps to the title page and to the rear end-paper. Surprisingly, there are no stamps to the copyrite page. There is a withdrawn from library stamp to the front end-paper, with some light paper surface loss to the front paste down. Toning to the page block, but internally quite clean and fresh. The dust wrapper is also in good or slightly better condition with no loss but with a couple of small closed tears. There is rippling to the wrapper and mild creasing. Please see the pictures. The publisher's printed price of £12.95 is present to the top corner of the front flap, and the US price of $18.95 is present to the bottom corner of the same flap.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Gardner, John. Licence to Kill. Armchair Detective Library, 1989, 1989.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 1st hardcover edition Fine/fine (full numberline on copyright page, and both U.K. and American prices on flap; slight yellowing of the textblock edges, as usual)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1739.16 + shipping
Description: [Film novelisation] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, no.46 of just 100 copies. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; iv; 294; [2]. Limitation leaf on grey paper stock. Publisher's de luxe binding of plum-coloured cloth with gilt trim and pictorial illustration, grey endpapers, in burgundy cloth slip-case. A clean, fine copy. A novelisation of the sixteenth official 007 movie, being the only John Gardner Bond title issued as a Limited Edition. From the comprehensive Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with a loose bookplate inserted. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, page 613.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$2125.63 + shipping
Description: SIGNED FIRST UK HARDBACK EDITION, preceeding the cloth-bound 'Collector' and 'Limited' issues. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth in glossy dust-jacket, with the cancelled title-page (showing the British spelling 'Licence'), as called for. A fine copy of a scarce book. John Gardner's first film novelisation starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$2254.46 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to the spine, photographic dust jacket with a promotional still showing Timothy Dalton as James Bond in the 1989 movie, priced at £12.95 and $18.95. A clean, fine copy. First US edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Title page cancelled, as issued, showing the British spelling "Licence". This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert, page 613; The Schøyen Collection No. 329.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom