Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First US large print edition. James Bond novel, 404+ pages. Very good copy,very lightly bumped, faint top edge foxing, small spot stain to the bottom edge; contents tight and clean] in edge worn Dust Wrapper with a creased 1.25" tear to the upper left corner of the front panel .bx72
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Brokenclaw. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1990.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 304 p. Continuing Ian Fleming's master spy James Bond stories.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Book has 304 pages. Tiny bit of wear to edge of dj. Clean and tight. Another 007 novel by John Gardner.
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). First American edition. Full number line.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket : very good plus / very good plus. Book: lower front corner of binding is lightly bumped; slight musty smell. Jacket in new mylar protector; slight wrinkling to tail of spine; jacket flaps a little toned. Flat signed on title page by Gardner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.41 + shipping
Description: [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.218. 'Lancastria' brand binding by Askews of Preston [library suppliers], being plain burgundy cloth with sewn cloth-strengthened inside joints for heavy use, binders label to rear, illustrated dust-jacket, flap is priced at £12.95 for the UK market (non-priced export copies were also produced). Institutional marks to copyright page and endpapers as expected, 'withdrawn' stamp to half-title, lacks f.e.p., jacket well-preserved in a clear sleeve. Ex-Jon Gilbert collection. An original novel starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 613.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$61.15 + shipping
Description: [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. 218. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dustwrapper; flap is priced at £12.95 for the UK market (non-priced export copies were also produced). Contents clean, no inscriptions. Very lightly handled. Near fine. An original novel starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. BMC No.1 [1984] p.4-13 'James Bond Revivals'. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 613.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Gardner, John. Brokenclaw (Ian Fleming's James Bond Master Spy). G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American Edition. Full number line starting with 1. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Unread.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$159.26 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Most Attractive Crown 8vo. Hardback in striking pictorial Chopping Dust Jacket and original pictorial box-case. 221pps. A Superb production.
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. First Edition Library, Connecticut, 1990.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: A fine copy in fine dust jacket and fine slipcase. The scarce First Edition Library facsimile of the 1963 Jonathan Cape original. The publisher "The First Edition Library" produced high quality facsimiles of first editions of many classic works. These works differ from a true first only in that they come in a slipcase and that they have a small statement of edition on the copyright page. Any typos and defects are perserved from the original.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. The First Edition Library, Shelton, Conn., 1990.
Price: US$249.00 + shipping
Description: This is a facsimile of the first edition of 1962 by Glidrose Productions Ltd. Oxford and London. Boxed and Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS, Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. The First Edition Library, Shelton, Conn., 1990.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Description: This is a facsimile of the first edition of 1962 by Glidrose Productions Ltd. Oxford and London. Boxed and Dust Jacket. Still in original shrink wrap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: HERB RIESSEN-RARE BOOKS, Costa Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$286.66 + shipping
Description: [Spy Fiction] 14 volumes, complete. Bibliographer's copies. Octavo (18 x 12cm). Publisher's softcovers. With retro cover designs by Bill Gregory, David Scutt and Paul Robinson. Mixed printings (never available in these covers as first printings). No owner names. Paper stock a little toned as expected, covers bright, light reading creases to one or two spines. Overall a clean, fine set. Coronet first published the James Bond series in 1988 with simple 'silhouette' style artwork; these colourful revised covers were released in the mid-1990s. From the comprehensive archive of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within), whose comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.84 + shipping
Description: [Spy thriller] FIRST U.S. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Collector's Edition, 'bound in genuine leather'. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.253; [1]. Printed on acid-neutral archival paper, with colour frontispiece illustration. Publisher's full dark red hide, decoratively blocked in gilt, illustrated endpapers, ribbon marker, all edges gilt. Absolutely fine. With publisher's loose decorative bookplate as called for. The bibliographer's copy, signed on plate ('Jack' bulldog paperweight not included). A stand-alone volume, not to be confused with the later Easton Press collected works (2005). Books were sold exclusively through the Easton Press via subscription and are long-since sold out. Copies on the used market are genuinely scarce. Gilbert A5b (6).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$3822.13 + shipping
Description: An attractive replica set of the James Bond first editions, complete with identical jackets and the publisher's protective slipcases bearing the classic cover art of Richard Chopping and others. Fleming's series was originally published by Jonathan Cape from 1952 to 1966. This production was authorized by Cape and has since gone out of print. Gilbert A1b (5), A2b (3), A3b (4), A4b (4), A5b (5), A6b (4), A7b (6), A8b (2), A9b (9), A10b (5), A11b (10), A12b (9), A13b (7) & A14b (3). 14 works, octavo. Original boards with lettering and devices in various colours. With dust jackets. Housed in the publisher's grey card slipcases illustrated on front and back after the jacket panels. Spot of foxing; unclipped jackets with very occasional rubbing and nicks, two with spine fading, Live and Let Die with small puncture: a fine set in near-fine jackets.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom