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John Gardner. License Renewed. jonathan cape, 1981.
Price: US$9.17 + shipping
Description: In License Renewed, the most famous secret agent in the world pits his nerve and cunning against a dangerously deranged opponent one prepared to sacrifice most of the Western world to prove that only he can make it safe from accidental holocaust. As the seconds tick away on the valued Rolex Oyster Perpetual, the world comes nearer this ironic annihilation; Bond comes nearer a frightful death and ever nearer Miss Lavender Peacock." Offsetting to endpapers, pages browned, dustjacket light wear to upper spine edge
Seller: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, New Zealand
Price: US$16.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 270 pp., bound in boards with pictorial dust jacket.Light wear on jacket, spine discoloured, age toning, very good copy. 20 x 14 cm.
Seller: Antiquariaat Digitalis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
John Gardner. License Renewed. jonathan cape, 1981.
Price: US$33.46 + shipping
Description: In License Renewed, the most famous secret agent in the world pits his nerve and cunning against a dangerously deranged opponent one prepared to sacrifice most of the Western world to prove that only he can make it safe from accidental holocaust. As the seconds tick away on the valued Rolex Oyster Perpetual, the world comes nearer this ironic annihilation; Bond comes nearer a frightful death and ever nearer Miss Lavender Peacock." 1981. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a near fine d/w only marked by a short repaired tear to the front, bottom corner. Scans available if required.
Seller: Barclay Books, York, WA, Australia
Gardner, John. Licence Renewed (James Bond, 007, Ian Fleming). Jonathan Cape, London, 1981.
Price: US$33.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth patterned paper over boards, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 12mo (7-3/4 inches tall), pp. 270. Volume with blush of toning to text, small offset ffep. Price-clipped DJ shows light wear and partial fade to spine, one short closed tear to head of spine at rear panel. First in line of the sixteen Bond novels executed by Gardner, later released in the US as License Renewed. Wrap-around DJ design by Mon Mohan, from a watercolor by the famous Richard Chopping.
Seller: Harropian Books, IOBA, Nelson, BC, Canada
GARDNER, John.. License Renewed. (Another James Bond 007 novel).. , 1981.
Price: US$50.19 + shipping
Description: (London): Jonathan Cape, (1981). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In dustjacket designed by Mon Mohan. (270pp.). 1st ed. Fine in like dustjacket.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: HBDJ, Stated 1st Published 1981, 1st British Edition, NF+/NF, Small Black Cloth Titled in Gold Gilt light Wear, 5 1/4 X 8 in. DJ light Rub, Wear, Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, 8 vo. DJ protected in Clear Mylar, .DJ Design by Mon Mohan, using a Commissioned Water-Colour Painting by Richard Chopping & featuring a Browning 9mm-long 1903, made under Browning Patent by Fabrique nationale DArmes de Guerre in Belgium. .John Gardner continue's the very best of Ian Fleming's super spy. License. First edition of the first James Bond novel by Gardner.
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of Gardner's First "Bond" book, faithfully following in Ian Fleming's footsteps. Gardner, who had resigned from the priesthood, became a journalist, theatre critic and arts editor in Straford-upon-Avon until 1964. Writing two Sherlock Holmes novels, The Return of Moriarity & The Revenge of Moriarity, Gardner entered the Le Carre genre, with his Herbie Kruger trilogy. In 1979, Gardner, living in Ireland, received a letter from well-known crime reviewer and author HRF Keating, asking him if he would be interested in picking up where Ian Fleming had left off and continuing with the James Bond series. Supplying Glidrose with four narrative outlines, one was chosen. Gardner ultimately published 16 James Bond novels, his last, Cold Fall, in 1996. "I work rather like an actor, taking on a theme or role so that it eventually envelopes me. After that, I need to work with a good editor, who I use, as an actor uses, a director. Work is life and life is work. I am a sto ry-teller, a professional wordsmith - it is a job, like that of a carpenter or any other craftsman. Sometimes the piece works, sometimes not." Adapted into film as Licence To Kill with Timothy Dalton. 8vo.,270 pp. Fine in original black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine in a near fine dustwrapper, designed by Mon Mohan, from an original watercolour by Richard Chopping, who designed many of the dustwrappers of Fleming's 007 novels. Showing two miniscule closed tears at the crown of the spine and an 1/8th of an inch inverted v-cut on the bottom, inside front flap undisturbing the original printed price. Very minor vertical crease at the spine panel. A very bright copy.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Gardner, John. License Renewed. Jonathan Cape / Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1981.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 285pp. Beautiful First Edition of the First Bond book written by Gardner. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£6.50). is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. A gorgeous collectable copy.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
John Gardner *INSCRIBED*. License Renewed. Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1981.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st edition. Book has black cloth boards with gold titles. The dust jacket is FINE. 270 pages. Inscribed by Gardner on the ffep. A spectacular copy. Selling quality books for 35 years.
Seller: Sleuth Books, FABA, Palm Coast, FL, U.S.A.
John Gardner. License Renewed. Jonathan Cape, 1981.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
GARDNER, John. Licence Renewed. Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: GARDNER, John [270] pp. Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton 1981 8" x 5.5" Jacket design by Mon Moham, using a commissioned water-colour painting by Richard Choping, and featuring a Browning 9mm long 1903 The first of John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent. Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown, unless Bond can stop them. Licence Renewed (published in American editions as License Renewed) , first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelizations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun in 1968. When Licence Renewed begins, M reminds Bond that the 00 section has in fact been abolished; however, M retains Bond as a troubleshooter, telling him "You'll always be 007 to me"
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.