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Kingsley Amis. The Egyptologists. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1965.
Price: US$10.39 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1965. First Published. 254 pages. Illustrative jacket over grey cloth. Book has a slight smoky odour overall. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks to edges. Textblock is shaky. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Some tanning to spine. Light rubbing to surfaces.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Amis, Kingsley; Conquest, Robert. The Egyptologists. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Egyptologists are the members of the Metropolitan Egyptological Society housed in London, and just what goes on or comes off in the Isis Room is not revealed until the end of this long legpull. First edition, in fine condition with dust wrapper price-clipped. 5¼" - 7¾"
Seller: Sekkes Consultants, North Dighton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, published 1965, with the "REVERSIBLE BOOKJACKET for WORK in the FIELD". The dustjacket is printed on the reverse side with The Bible (see photographs), enabling the reader to disguise what one is reading. Illustrated in b&w. Text & illustrations printed in red & black. Classic 1960s-vintage design throughout. Design and art direction by Raymond Hawkey. Photography by Ken Denyer. Purported author "William Tanner" is a pseudonym used by Kingsley Amis for the book (William Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel series. Tanner is an employee of the Secret Intelligence Service who acts as M's chief of staff). Tongue-in-cheek 007 spy manual. Contents include a foreword, plus chapters on drink, food, smokes, looks, exercise, clothes, accessories, cars, places, chat, culture, gambling, M, girls, research, plus sources. Printed in Great Britain. Bound in original black boards with bright multi-coloured gilt lettering to spine (gold, blue, red), gold endpapers, in publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Ex-Library copy with minimal library markings (only one page with ink stamps, & trace of label removal to ffep, though nothing external), slight handling wear, inner front flap of the dustjacket has been cut off & a portion affixed to verso of ffep (see photographs), bookseller's small label to front pastedown, front hinge a little tender, otherwise a clean tight solid hardcover copy. 111pp. Uncommon first edition with the classic reversible dustjacket. SB-38.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Farcical novel of a secret society. "The Egyptologists are the members of the Metropolitan Egyptological Society housed in London, and just what goes on or comes off in the Isis Room is not revealed until the end of this long legpull. It is also withheld from their wives who, in boredom, form a solid bloc; but when they are summoned by the Yard (the Superintendent insists on admission), threatened with the visitation of an outsider and a public viewing on television, it all becomes sufficiently Pharanoid to result in their dissolution. "We're twee; you see. We know so well that what we're up to is the least twee of human activities." Well, you can skip the hieroglyphic twee and settle down to being twitted with some aimless nonsense. Most of the characters are faceless but one of them could be Peter Sellers." - Kirkus Review, February, 1965. Filmed as a made for TV Czech movie. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of fade to spine panel. (20906)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Amis, Kingsley. The James Bond dossier. Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Price: US$49.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Kingsley Amis. The Egyptologists. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very collectible first printing. A fine book, small dealer note in pencil in front. Book otherwise internally clean. Fine unclipped jacket with archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
Amis, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, London, UK, 1965.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. 160pp. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth very slightly rubbed on corners, gently rounded at spine ends. Text block edges lightly toned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, price clipped, a little rubbed at extreme corners, gently bumped on spine ends with slight chips, a few spots. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun [First Edition]. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$80.31 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, first printing (standard binding), octavo., pp.(viii), (9)-221, original cloth boards, patterned endpapers. Near-fine condition. A true first edition of Fleming's last James Bond book, published in April 1965 following his death in August 1964. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to Kingsley Amis for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not subsequently used. In 1974 the book was adapted to film with actor Roger Moore playing Bond and Fleming's cousin, Christopher Lee, as Scaramanga
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Price: US$82.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 111pp with black/red illustrations - black cloth - previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper - minor surface dents to rear board - dustwrapper is very lightly soiled - corresponding dents to surface of rear cover - SCARCE
Seller: Plane Tree Books, Taupo, New Zealand
AMIS, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$82.66 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Legatura in piena tela editoriale nera con con titoli in oro al dorso; sovraccoperta illustrata da Jan Pienkowski (basata sui celebri dipinti trompe l'oeil di Richard Chopping riprodotti sulle sovraccoperte dei libri di James Bond books). Il volume è in condizioni molto buone; presenta qualche fioritura alle sguardie e all'occhiello. La sovraccoperta è in buone condizioni, si segnala solo qualche lieve usura ai bordi, manca il talloncino del prezzo. Il libro rappresenta la prima, sistematica analisi critica del personaggio di James Bond con ampi riferimenti ai romanzi e allo scrittura di Ian Fleming. Full editorial black cloth binding with gilt titles on spine; dust jacket illustrated by Jan Pienkowski (based on the famous trompe l'oeil paintings by Richard Chopping reproduced on the jackets of the James Bond books). The volume is in very good condition; there is just some little foxing on the white pages and the half title. The dust jacket is in good condition, with just a very slight wear at the edges of the spine, price clipped (missing low front flap corner). The book is the first, systematic critical analysis of the James Bond character through extensive references to the novels and Ian Fleming's style and writing.
Seller: Deus ex Libris, Chianciano Terme, SI, Italy
Kingsley Amis; Robert Conquest. The Egyptologists. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A smart first edition of this mysterious novel from Amis and Conquest, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. The Metropolitan Egyptological Society has been suspected for some time to have been engaging in espionage, drug-smuggling, and deception. This novel brings the reader to the centre of the mystery and to one of the most outrageously funny spoofs of the season. Written by Sir Kingsley Amis, an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher, and George Robert Conquest, a British-American historian and poet. Dust wrapper designed by Jan MichaÅ PieÅkowski, a Polish-born British author and illustrator of children's books, best known for illustrating the Meg and Mog picture book series. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and minor sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Description: 18cm x 14cm [pocket size] 111pp, Illustrated, Design and Art Direction by Raymond Hawkey. Photography by Ken Denyer. Full of invaluable advice for the prospective secret agent. Gilt endpapers, Internally some creasing o/w in Good+ condition. Reversible dust jacket with minor creasing, soiling and fading o/w in Good++ condition.
Seller: Handsworth Books PBFA, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First published 1965 stated. 5 x 7 1/2 Book; binding tight, mild bumping to corners else boards straight and clean; mild toning to edges else text free of marks, appears barely read. Dust jacket (16s. net) has minor bumping and chipping to spine and flap fold ends with small closed puncture to rear cover by spine. Color bright and sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Twinwillow Books, Los Alamitos, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: KINGSLEY AMIS - THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER, published by UK publisher Jonathan Cape, copyright 1965, First Printing ("First Published 1965" at top of copyright page with no reference to subsequent printings or a month of printing), white endpapers, black boards with gold gilt lettering on spine, 16s net price on DJ front flap. Book has no creased page corners, hint of age darkening/dust soiling/foxing to outer page edges, no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps/stickers inside, ever so faint foxing to free endpapers otherwise clean endpapers with no scotch tape marks or discoloration, no internal hinge splitting, no wear to board edges, corners or spine tips, no bumped board corners, no soiling/markings to boards, no wear/oxidizing to gilt spine lettering. Dust Jacket has small closed tear with related crease at top right on spine otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, slight wear to spine tips, hint of wear to front flap crease, no wear to left/right on spine, almost no edge wear, very slight no spine sun darkening, no foxing to panels or spine, almost no dust rubbing to panels or spine, no soiling/staining to panels or spine. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in VG+/FINE- condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of a Ian Fleming related James Bond related 1st UK printing hardcover book. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for sale.
Seller: Far North Collectible Books, Anchorage, AK, U.S.A.
AMIS, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small octavo, pp159. Black cloth boards with blind stamped design to front board and gilt lettering to spine. In original dust jacket with Richard Chopping trompe d oeil design to front. Near Fine condition book with some dust dulling to top edge in a Near Fine jacket which is a little bit yellowed to the white lettering on the spine.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Price: US$131.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp: 111. The FIRST EDITION identified by the words 'First Published 1965' on the copyright page. Pictorial dust jacket, black cloth covered boards. William Tanner, ostensibly the author of the book, is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel series. He works for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Kingsley Amis wrote The Book of Bond or Every Man His Own 007, which is a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. Amis adopted Tanner's name for the book. This is a very good, or better, copy with minimal edge wear. The very good, price-clipped dust jacket has two stains to the base of the rear panel, a touch of toning to the spine, and light soiling.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
Price: US$133.84 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: there is no damage apart from the price clipping. Illustrated with photographs and drawings printed on bright orange paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 112 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Ken Denyer  photography. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: fiction; humour. Inventory No: 0244231.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition first printing of what you need in order to be a Bond. Has reverse dust jacket for field work. There is a inch long rub spot on the first orange title page where someone erased something. A hint of edge wear. Price clipped otherwise in very good / near fine condition. BRColl
Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
AMIS, KINGSLEY. The James Bond Dossier. jonathan cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gilt lettered black cloth in Choppingesque dust jacket. A Book about the iconic James Bond books. Nice copy with wear to the extremities Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: [James Bond] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Small octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.111; [1]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed 'reversible' book-jacket for work in the field; the pictorial dust-wrapper can be rapidly disguised as a bible. Ink ownership to endpaper, small patch of soiling to foot of jacket at spine, price clipped. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who holds the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner" BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Ian Fleming The Bibliography pp.634, 644.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small square octavo. 111 pages. Gold endpapers. Design and art direction by Raymond Hawkey. Photography by Ken Denyer. Full of invaluable advice for the prospective secret agent, e.g.: ''Owning a lot of books tends to go with serious criminal tendencies'' (I like that ''serious'').Covers lightly faded and a bit bowed. Very good in very good indeed reversible dustwrapper (The Bible Revised to be Read as Literature ''for work in the field'') which is slightly creased at edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Contents clean, page edges toned, some very light edge wear to wrapper. Near fine in similar jacket. Amis' first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote the light-hearted 'Book of Bond' in 1965, and the first post-Fleming 007 novel 'Colonel Sun' (1968). BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592, see also Appendix A, page 634.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
KINGSLEY AMIS. THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1965.
Price: US$173.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 159 PAGES. SOME VERY MINOR EDGE WEAR TO JACKET, FEW MINOR MARKS TO PAGE FORE-EDGES BUT OVERALL THIS IS AN EXCELLENT COPY WITH MINIMAL FAULTS ONLY. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$179.66 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, octavo, pp 111. Brown cloth covered hard boards, in the original dust jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, un-clipped (12s 6d net). The jacket was designed double-sided with the verso purporting to be a bible. This copy has had all lettering on the verso obscured with black marker pen; this apparently was done by South African censors to all copies entering that country, as they objected to the use of the bible theme on this book. Book and jacket both in Near Fine condition.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Black cloth with gilt spine titling upper board decorated in blind. Dust-jacket design by Jan Pienkowski based on the famous trompe l'oeil paintings by Richard Chopping reproducd on the jackets of James Bond Books. Fine in like dust-jacket
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, IAN - AMIS, Kingsley.. The James Bond Dossier.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, 1965.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. This early critical analysis of the James Bond novels, "which was actually vetted by Fleming, has become a staple Bond reference book" (Gilbert, p. 592). Gilbert, p. 592. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with decoration in blind. With dust jacket. Minor browning to front free endpaper, slight browning to edges; extremities of jacket rubbed, unclipped: a near-fine copy in a very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Priced at 16s. to flap. A lightly used copy in near fine condition. Amis' first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote the light-hearted 'Book of Bond' in 1965, and the first post-Fleming 007 novel 'Colonel Sun' (1968). BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592, see also Appendix A, page 634.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Amis, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Price: US$198.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st impression copy of the 1st UK edition of "The James Bond Dossier" by Kingsley Amis, published in 1965 by Jonathan Cape. Octavo, 159 pages. With the original dust jacket, layout design by Jan Pienkowski based on the style of the trompe l'oeil artwork by Richard Chopping used for several Bond books. Not price-clipped. Minor marks and abrasions to the boards but in good condition overall. Minor chips and tears to the dust jacket. No foxing or marks to the text block and minimal toning.The binding is square and sound. Amis' critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Written at Bond-mania's zenith in the mid-1960s, this is the first tongue-in-cheek literary analysis of Ian Fleming's strengths and weaknesses as a thriller-writer
Seller: Bois Books, Les Clayes sous Bois, YVELI, France
Kingsley Amis. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$215.59 + shipping
Description: A lovely first edition copy of Kingsley Amis's critical study of 007. The first edition of Kingsley Amis's critical analysis of the James Bond novels, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.This was the first formal literary study of James Bond as a character, also serving as a literary analysis of Fleming's style and techniques. This work analyses the majority of the Bond canon, it only omitting only 'Octopussy and the Living Daylights', which was published a year later.Due to Amis' commitment and respect of the series, he was later commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing 'Colonel Sun' under the pseudonym 'Robert Markham'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Light edge wear to head and tail of dust wrapper back strip, with minor marks to rear wrap. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: [James Bond] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Small octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.111; [1]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed 'reversible' book-jacket for work in the field; the pictorial dust-wrapper can be rapidly disguised as a bible. Price clipped, else a clean, fine copy. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who holds the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner". From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler, purchased by ourselves at Swann Auctions in 2010, with a pencil note to that effect signed by his bookseller friend and colleague Jon Gilbert. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Ian Fleming The Bibliography pp.634, 644.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Tanner, Lt-Col. William ('Bill'). [Kingsly Amis]. THE BOOK OF BOND OR EVERY MAN HIS OWN 007. With Reversible Bookjacket For Work in The Field. London: Jonathan Cape, London, 1965. First edition of this Bond spoof by Kingsley Amis. Sm 8vo., Publisher's black cloth, gold end-papers. Design and art direction Raymond Hawkey. Photography by Ken Denyer. A fine copy [neat gift presentation on the front pastedown], in a fine fresh reversible dustwrapper showing the original price of 12s 6d net on front flap & with ('' What THEY said of THE BIBLE") title on the verso. An excellent example.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very smart first edition of this exciting and insightful fictional work on the British Secret Service, as told by James Bond's closest friend, Bill Tanner. First edition. Illustrated with black and red images throughout. With reversible dust wrapper for use in the field. Bill Tanner's distinguished wartime career in the Sappers ended in 1944 when he was wounded in a sabotage operation. Years later, he is serving as M's number two, and is agent 007 closest friend in the Secret Service. Author to hundreds of official minutes, this is the first work of Tanner's to appeal publicly. A tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective service agents, written by Kingsley Amis, an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, here writing under the pseudonym Lieutenant Colonel William Tanner. Design and art direction by Raymond Hawkey, an English graphic designer and author. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An excellent first edition of Kingsley Amis's critical study of 007. The first edition, first impression of Kingsley Amis's critical analysis of the James Bond novels, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.This was the first formal literary study of James Bond as a character, also serving as a literary analysis of Fleming's style and techniques. This work analyses the majority of the Bond canon, only omitting only 'Octopussy and the Living Daylights', which was published a year later.Due to Amis' commitment and respect of the series, he was later commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing 'Colonel Sun' under the pseudonym 'Robert Markham'.With a Foyles label to tail of front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Foyle's bookplate to tail of front pastedown. Minor edgewear to tail of front wrap of dust wrapper, with two repaired minor closed tears to the back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 14cm). Publisher's black cloth, gilt endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed 'reversible' book-jacket for work in the field; the pictorial dust-wrapper can be rapidly disguised as a bible. A fine copy in clean, bright jacket, with a couple of faint impressions to the rear panel. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who hold the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner"
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Description: [James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's copy, with a printed label loosely inserted. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some trivial wear to extremities of jacket. A fine copy. Amis' first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote the light-hearted 'Book of Bond' in 1965, and the first post-Fleming 007 novel 'Colonel Sun' (1968). Provenance: Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911-96), former Etonian diplomat, S.A.S. Commando, adventurer and travel writer encouraged by Peter Fleming; liaised with Ian Fleming during the Moscow spy trials in the 1930s, served in Soviet Central Asia, the Western Desert Campaign, and at Churchill's personal request, behind enemy lines with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. Maclean was often labelled a model for James Bond, with Ian Fleming noting that 007 was "a compound of all the secret agents and commando types that I met during the war" (Bond Bound, p.26). Maclean, Peter and Ian Fleming were reunited at literary events, each being published by Jonathan Cape. Originally sold with all Maclean's copies of the Bond novels [Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 2008], purchased by bibliographer Jon Gilbert for his Fleming Archive, where this copy has remained since. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592, see also Appendix A, page 634.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: [James Bond] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Small octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.111; [1]. Attractively bound in half deep red oasis morocco, titled and ruled in gilt to the spine, raised bands, matching cloth sides, original gold endpapers bound in at the rear. A fine copy. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who holds the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner". From the James Bond collection assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Ian Fleming The Bibliography pp.634, 644.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$378.56 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A fine book, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions, in a fine dust wrapper with no loss or tears, with the publisher's printed price of 16s.net present to the front flap. A most attractive example.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
AMIS, [Sir] Kingsley (1922-1995). The James Bond Dossier. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, 1965.
Price: US$481.22 + shipping
Description: [Reference critique] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's green card lettered in black. Contents clean, covers have some scuffs to upper, tear/loss to lower panel with old tape makes to inside rear. Very good. Amis' first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote the light-hearted 'Book of Bond' in 1965 and the first post-Fleming 007 novel 'Colonel Sun'. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian - AMIS, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, 1965, 1965.
Price: US$481.22 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original green wrappers, lettered in black and decorated with white publisher's motif. A near-fine copy, spine creased otherwise in excellent condition for a proof copy. Uncorrected proof copy, Kingsley Amis's first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote a light-hearted work The Book of Bond (Jonathan Cape, 1965), and the first post-Fleming 007 continuation novel Colonel Sun (Jonathan Cape, 1968). Receipt for Martin Schøyen loosely inserted. 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. Book & Magazine Collector No. 1, pages 4-13, Fleming and Bond; Related Titles; The Schøyen Collection No. 230.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis. The James Bond Dossier. Johnathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$501.91 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Jonathan Cape, London, 1965. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Pienkowski, Jan (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 8vo. First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket showing only minimal rubbing around edges. A handsome copy; Kingley Amis, second James Bond author following his creator, Ian Fleming, "has compiled this dossier with a ruthless precision and thoroughness that would be the envy of Dr No, Auric Goldfinger or even Ernst Stavro Blofeld. " (from the dustjacket).
Seller: Morshead Books, Beaumaris, VIC, Australia
Price: US$506.89 + shipping
Description: [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY on behalf of Kingsley Amis. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. With Jonathan Cape printed slip 'with the Author's compliments'. Very near fine. An uncommon presentation copy. Amis' first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote the light-hearted 'Book of Bond' in 1965, and the first post-Fleming 007 novel 'Colonel Sun' (1968). From the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Gilbert, page 592, see also Appendix A, page 634.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, IAN. The Man with the Golden Gun. Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, half title, text block clean, publishers black cloth,title gilt to spine, dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping, price and corners clipped, tape residue on turnovers, spine head and tail slightly rubbed, corners slightly frayed, preserved with a transparent removable covering, 8vo, London, Jonathan Cape, 1965 A world-famous secret agent: it seems a contradiction in terms. Yet how else to describe Bond - James Bond- whose exploits have sold over sixty million books to date, and launched one of the most successful film franchises in the world? Few other literary characters can claim to have had the cultural impact of 007. Ian Fleming Publications LTD. The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth Bond novel and final of Ian Flemings contribution to the James Bond series. It was published by Jonathan Cape on the 1st of April, 1965, eight months after the author's death. Before his death, Fleming completed the first draft and part of the editing process. However it was not as polished or detailed as previous Bond stories, as this was often added by Fleming in the second draft. Kingsley Amis was asked to consult on the work but his suggestions were not used.
Seller: Bruce Marshall Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Amis, Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Amis' critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jan Pienkowski based on the famous trompe l'oeil paintings by Richard Chopping reproduced on the jackets of the James Bond books. An exceptional example. Written at the Bond-mania's zenith in the 1960s, The James Bond Dossier is the first, thorough, albeit tongue-in-cheek, literary analysis of Ian Fleming's strengths and weaknesses as a thriller-writer. As a mainstream novelist, Amis respected the Bond novels, especially their commercial success, believing them 'to be just as complex and to have just as much in them as more ambitious kinds of fiction'. The James Bond Dossier includes most of the Bond fiction cycle, excepting Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966), the final collection of 007 short stories, which was published after the Dossier. Kingsley Amis's argument is that the Bond novels are substantial and complex works of fiction, and certainly not, as Ian Fleming's critics said, 'a systematic onslaught on everything decent and sensible in modern life'. He viewed them as popular literature, akin to that of the Science Fiction texts he critiqued in New Maps of Hell (1960).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
AMIS Kingsley. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, 1965.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: AMIS, Kingsley [159] pp. Jonathan Cape 1965 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" Fine/ Fine The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest. Later, after Ian Fleming's death, Amis was commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing Colonel Sun (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham. The James Bond Dossier was the first, formal, literary study of the James Bond character.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$866.20 + shipping
Description: [James Bond Reference] FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine, and the pictorial dust-wrapper, based on the familiar Chopping 'trompe l'oeil' designs from the Ian Fleming first editions. Decorative bookplate, SIGNED by Amherst Villiers, also SIGNED by his daughter Janie Villers in our presence. Price clipped, else a clean, fine copy. Engineer Charles Amherst Villiers (1900-1991) designed a supercharger for the 4½ litre 'Blower' Bentley, the gearing for which was made by David Brown & Son [D.B.S.], prior to their acquisition of Aston Martin, a struggling motor company previously funded by Count Louis Zborowski. His friend Ian Fleming chose the 'blower' as James Bond's own vehicle, plus a company Aston Martin D.B.3 on assignment, and later consulted Villiers while writing Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, an adventure book about a vintage car based on Zborowski's 1920 Zeppelin-powered Mercedes. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592, see also Appendix A, page 634.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Kingsley Amis. The James Bond Dossier. Jonathan Cape, London, 1965.
Price: US$1077.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A fine, signed copy of Kingsley Amis' analysis of the James Bond Novels. Signed by Kingsley Amis to a tipped in bookplate to the recto of front free endpaper: 'Signed for a member of the New Fiction Society'.'The James Bond Dossier' is Kingsley Amis' critical analysis of the James Bond Novels. This was the first formal literary study of James Bond as a character. It is also a literary analysis of Fleming's style and techniques.Due to Amis' commitment and respect of the series, he was later commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series. He wrote 'Colonel Sun' under the pseudonym 'Robert Markham'.This work analyses the majority of the Bond canon, it only omits 'Octopussy and the Living Daylights' which was published a year later.A wonderful opportunity to own a signed copy of this first critical text on the Bond novels. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. Dustwrapper is in an excellent condition. Light shelfwear to the extremities of the dustwrapper. Small loss to the head of front flyleaf and to the spine of dustwrapper at the word 'Bond'. A few light spots internally to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with just a few light spots to the front free endpaper. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
AMIS, [Sir] Kingsley (1922-1995). The James Bond Dossier. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, 1965.
Price: US$2245.71 + shipping
Description: [Reference critique] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN PROOF-ONLY JACKET. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's paper covers, with pictorial proof dust-wrapper (entirely unclipped and with original setting of the text) with design based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' art which decorated the Ian Fleming first editions. Faint damp-soiling to lower edge, discreet owner name else a fine copy of the book. Oversized jacket with minor wear to unsupported crown, slightly toned to the spine. Scarce in this advance format, exceptionally so with the proof-only jacket. Amis' first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote the light-hearted 'Book of Bond' in 1965 and the first post-Fleming 007 novel 'Colonel Sun'.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom