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FLEMING, IAN. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service. London Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Signed by actor George Lazenby who played James Bond in the motion picture adaptation of the novel with a sexy provocative quotation from his dialogue where he is attempting to get Diana Rigg into bed. Inscribed on the title page: ÒContessa, Please stay alive. At least for tonight! George Lazenby, 007.Ó Accompanied by a original color photograph of Lazenby signing the book. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some soiling and stains with a few very tine chips and tiny tears. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service is among the best regarded James Bond films.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
FLEMING, IAN. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service. London Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Signed by actor George Lazenby who played James Bond in the motion picture adaptation of the novel with a sexy provocative quotation from his dialogue where he is attempting to get Diana Rigg into bed. Inscribed on the title page: ÒContessa, Please stay alive. At least for tonight! George Lazenby, 007.Ó Accompanied by a original color photograph of Lazenby signing the book. Book has small stain on the front board, slightly bumped at the top of rear board, light general use, else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny nicks, some creases and light wear. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service is among the best regarded James Bond films.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11306.51 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY IAN FLEMING and additionally INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE 'Sable Basilisk' (Robin de la Lanne Mirrlees). Second Impression. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. Very good indeed, with a little edge-spotting, neat reference number '1M' to flyleaf, jacket close to fine. 'Sable Basilisk' was the fictional name Fleming gave to the genealogy expert Rouge Dragon (the position held by Mirrlees at the College of Arms, London). Mirrlees had an extensive research correspondence with Fleming, and it was he who first revealed to the author Bond's family motto "The World Is Not Enough" (Giblin, p.39). Mirrlees later published an account of his dealings with Fleming as 'Sable Basilisk', a privately printed volume of great rarity among Bond collectors. Bibliographical Note; this is the third such copy we have handled bearing the signatures of both Fleming and Mirrlees, and all have been second impressions- clearly a private or informal signing took place where second printings were provided. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, A11a (2). Provenance: previously sold by Asprey [gilt-stamped solander box], later Adrian Harrington [Inventory no.39658, February 2012 £6750].
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. 8vo, limited first edition, #98 of 250 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Frontispiece portrait by Amherst Villiers, title page in red and black, black cloth board with vellum spine, bright gilt lettering on the spine, white ski-track illustration on the upper board, top edges gilt. Clear plastic dust jacket, as issued. Very slight soing to the spine ends, light foxing to the edges and endpapers. Near fine condition.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
FLEMING, Ian.. Thrilling Cities.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$16152.15 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page "For Sari, her Christmas present! [kiss] Ian." This copy was given from the author's own batch of copies for presentation in December 1963 (the book having been published in November 1963). The recipient is Sarah Dugdale, part of the Ivor Bryce set, who was a close friend of Ian Fleming during the last 12 years of his life. Accompanying the book is a note regarding the nature of their relationship, from the previous owner, Sari's housemaid and confidante, who had inherited the book in July 2003. The note states that Fleming and Dugdale "met in 1952 when Sarah Dugdale went to the dock in New York, with a mutual friend, to meet Ian Fleming off the Queen Mary". This is a most personal copy, with an intimate and close association. Originally published as two series of articles for the Sunday Times, first from 24 January to 28 February 1960 and then from 31 July to 4 September 1960, Thrilling Cities was the product of a five-week, all-expenses-paid trip to visit the world's most exciting cities. Travelling to thirteen cities, from Hong Kong to Monte Carlo, Fleming gathered material that would furnish much of the backdrop and research for the five Bond novels and seven short stories that would follow. 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 A16a(1.1). The Schøyen Collection No. 191. Octavo. Original white cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. 48 pages of illustrations from black and white photos. Corners slightly bumped, some browning to edges, a near-fine copy. Minor creases to price-clipped dust jacket with extremities slightly rubbed, a bright and near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. Thrilling Cities. Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$16152.15 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original white cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. 48 pages of illustrations from black and white photos. Corners slightly bumped, some browning to edges, a near-fine copy. Minor creases to price-clipped dust jacket with extremities slightly rubbed, a bright and near-fine copy. First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title-page "For Sari, her Christmas present! [kiss] Ian." This copy was given from the author's own batch of copies for presentation in December 1963 (the book having been published in November 1963). The recipient is Sarah Dugdale, part of the Ivor Bryce set, who was a close friend of Ian Fleming during the last 12 years of his life. Accompanying the book is a note regarding the nature of their relationship, from the previous owner, Sari's housemaid and confidante, who had inherited the book in July 2003. The note states that Fleming and Dugdale "met in 1952 when Sarah Dugdale went to the dock in New York, with a mutual friend, to meet Ian Fleming off the Queen Mary". This is a most personal copy, with an intimate and close association. Originally published as two series of articles for the Sunday Times, first from 24 January to 28 February 1960 and then from 31 July to 4 September 1960, Thrilling Cities was the product of a five-week, all-expenses-paid trip to visit the world's most exciting cities. Travelling to thirteen cities, from Hong Kong to Monte Carlo, Fleming gathered material that would furnish much of the backdrop and research for the five Bond novels and seven short stories that would follow. 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 A16a(1.1). The Schøyen Collection No. 191.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian.. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$17767.37 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 203 of 250 copies signed by the author; a further 35 unnumbered copies signed and marked for "presentation" were also released. This was Fleming's only signed limited edition; it was published simultaneously with the trade issue on 1 April 1963. Gilbert A11a. Octavo. Original quarter vellum, black board sides, spine lettered in gilt, ski track decoration to front cover in white, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom black quarter morocco folding box. Colour portrait frontispiece of the author with tissue guard. Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian.. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. Jonathan Cape, London., 1963.
Price: US$19059.54 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 288 pages. Quarter vellum, black cloth sides with ski-track design in white, spine lettering gilt, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece portrait from a painting by Amherst Villiers.Number 56 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. This is the only limited edition of any of the Bond novels.Fine in the original clear-plastic dustwrapper which is completely intact.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian.. Casino Royale.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$19382.58 + shipping
Description: Second edition, fifth impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To CD from Ian". Sir Charles Denis Hamilton was a decorated veteran of the Second World War, "an outstanding natural newspaperman", a close friend of Fleming, and a fellow board member at the Kemsley News Group. As a columnist, much of Ian Fleming's journalism was published in the Sunday Times when Hamilton was editor-in-chief. In 1962 the inaugural issue of the ST Magazine featured the James Bond novella The Living Daylights. Hamilton also championed Fleming's Thrilling Cities travel articles, later being the dedicatee of the book edition. The first James Bond novel, Casino Royale was originally published in 1953. After two reprints, the work was entirely reset in 1957 and featured a dust jacket design by Patricia Marriott (1920-2002). Marriott also designed the dust jackets for two further Cape-published James Bond novels, Diamonds are Forever (1956) and Dr No (1958). Her husband, Michael Howard (1923-1974), was Fleming's literary advisor and a director at Cape. The 1963 impression was the fifth impression of the second edition and is also noted by Gilbert as the "eighth printing". This was, crucially, the final Cape printing of the author's debut novel to be published during his lifetime. This copy is from the library of the Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his bookplate and signed catalogue description loosely inserted. Gilbert A1a(8). Harold Hobson, Phillip Knightley and Leonard Russell, The Pearl of Days: An Intimate Memoir of the Sunday Times, 1972. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in red, red heart device on front cover. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. Minor foxing to edges, extremities of jacket a little rubbed, unclipped; a fine copy in a near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$22613.02 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's brown cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in the dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 16s. With author's signed presentation inscription to the flyleaf; "To Aubrey / who wrote some of it! / From Ian". Some minor foxing, jacket gently used; very good or better copy. Housed in an elegant quarter black morocco clamshell. Aubrey Forshaw was asked by Fleming to read the proof of On Her Majesty's Secret Service and correct any errors, specifically those relating to cars. The inscription relates to the passages corrected by Forshaw, particularly regarding motoring matters. An outstanding presentation of the tenth James Bond novel. Provenance: Aubrey Forshaw, Managing Director of Pan Books, publisher of the James Bond novels in paperback. Gilbert A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, IAN. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service. London Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$24000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Limited Issue. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author Ian Fleming at the colophon. This copy is #223. With a full color frontispiece painted portrait of Fleming by Amherst Villiers. Faint trace of foxing the endpapers, else a fine copy without dust jacket. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service is FlemingÕs 11th James Bond novel and is the basis of the 1969 film starring George Lazenby as Bond with Diana Rigg and Telly Savales.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing, A spectacular copy SIGNED by Ian Fleming on the limitation on page. This is copy number 205 of 250 copies bound in the publisher's quarter vellum over black boards. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy Fleming First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$35534.74 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 16s. Inscribed by the author to his close friend John Hayward; "To John | to pick holes in! | from | Ian". A lovely near fine copy in a morocco-spined clamshell box. A charming and close association; Hayward (1905-65) was a fellow bibliophile and writer who lived in the same Chelsea apartment block as Ian Fleming. The written comment refers to Hayward's assiduous editorial skills; Hayward sat on the board of Fleming's Book Collector journal and, for many years, was its editor-in-chief. This copy has resided in two prominent collections, firstly that of Roger Rechler (sold at Christies, 2002, $11,950) and later the property of Football Hall of Famer Pat McInally.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$41995.60 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original grey-brown boards (binding A, no priority), spine lettered in silver, white ski track design on front cover. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom cream cloth chemise and slipcase by James MacDonald of New York. A little rubbing, slight lean to spine, publisher's date stamp on rear free endpaper verso. A very good copy indeed in like dust jacket, not price-clipped, spine lettering unusually bright, couple of nicks and spots of rubbing, foxing to rear panel, a sharp example. First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his typist on the front free endpaper: "To Margaret Anderson who wrote it! from Ian Fleming"; together with 11 typed copy sheets from Anderson, mostly letters to Fleming's secretary Beryl Griffie-Williams, with secretarial annotations. Margaret Anderson has signed her name above Fleming's inscription, adding "finished 5/5/1962", most likely referring to the date she finished typing the present work; she has also made occasional pencil annotations to the text itself. Fleming employed Anderson during the early 1960s to produce typescript copies from his manuscripts, a task which, as these letters show, she completed with much enjoyment and no small amount of difficulty; "I am sorry about not doing a chapter title number page. I'm sorry but do appreciate how much extra work I have given you and regret it very much". Nevertheless, she frequently passes thanks to Fleming for his generosity in maintaining her services and providing her with bonuses, and her questions (both in the body of some letters and in three sheets of queries, two of which concern On Her Majesty's Secret Service) show an astute eye for inaccuracies and inconsistencies. For example, Anderson questions M's profuse swearing in Chapter 17 of the present work, given that he had previously been described to seldom swear, "except when he thought he was sending one of his men to their death" (Anderson). "On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the second and final novel typed for Ian Fleming by Margaret Anderson, after which Fleming's regular typist Jean Frampton returned" (Gilbert, p. 352). In her initial letter, dated 23 December 1960, Anderson comments on the first work she typed for Fleming: not a Bond novel but rather State of Excitement: Impressions of Kuwait, which Fleming wrote as a guest of the Kuwait Oil Company the same month. Although that work seemed destined for Fleming's travelogue Thrilling Cities (1963), the government of Kuwait soon prevented its publication after objecting to "certain mild comments and criticisms" (Fleming, quoted in Gilbert, p. 589). It remains unpublished. As Anderson informs Fleming's secretary, "we've always enjoyed his books and although [Impressions of Kuwait] is different from his novels his racy style still keeps coming through". 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 A11a (1.1); The Schøyen Collection No. 85. Ian Fleming, State of Excitement: Impressions of Kuwait, manuscript held at the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom