Gardner, John. Scorpius - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988.

Price: US$440.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A beautiful first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, top edges slightly bumped, SIGNED by author John Gardner on the title page; James Bond's phone number is the only one found on the body of a young girl floating in the Thames. Something else strange is a credit card issued by an agency no one has ever heard of. Special Branch calls on M; M, in turn, rings Agent 007 to get to the bottom of the connection between a quasi-religious sect called the Society of the Meek Ones and Vladimir Scorpius, arms dealer to terrorist worldwide whose base of operations is an island off of South Carolina. Society girl Hon. Trilby Shrivenham and beautiful American IRS agent Harriet Horner enter the picture to spice things up as Bond goes up against uber-villain Scorpius; 8vo ; Signed by Author

Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John.. Scorpius.. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988, 1988.

Price: US$482.39 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page; the seventh of Gardner's James Bond novels. Gilbert p. 613. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, light peripheral creasing and minor tape residue on verso.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

GARDNER JOHN. SCORPIUS. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988.

Price: US$508.12 + shipping

Description: First UK Edition. Some foxing particularly to the early and late pages of the book and pages quite tanned as always overall a VG copy in a VG+ price-clipped D/W. Inscribed by the Author on the title page

Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom

GARDNER, John (1926-2007). Scorpius [James Bond series]. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1988, 1988.

Price: US$514.55 + shipping

Description: SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. A near-fine copy in like dust jacket. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. 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. 321.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Gardner, John. Scorpius - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988.

Price: US$530.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A very handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author John Gardner on the title page; James Bond's phone number is the only one found on the body of a young girl floating in the Thames. Something else strange is a credit card issued by an agency no one has ever heard of. Special Branch calls on M; M, in turn, rings Agent 007 to get to the bottom of the connection between a quasi-religious sect called the Society of the Meek Ones and Vladimir Scorpius, arms dealer to terrorist worldwide whose base of operations is an island off of South Carolina. Society girl Hon. Trilby Shrivenham and beautiful American IRS agent Harriet Horner enter the picture to spice things up as Bond goes up against uber-villain Scorpius; 8vo ; Signed by Author

Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Scorpius - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A very handsome first edition/first printing in Very Near Fine condition with slightly yellowed page edges and very limited foxing to page edges on top in Fine dust-jacket, SIGNED by author John Gardner on the title page; James Bond's phone number is the only one found on the body of a young girl floating in the Thames. Something else strange is a credit card issued by an agency no one has ever heard of. Special Branch calls on M; M, in turn, rings Agent 007 to get to the bottom of the connection between a quasi-religious sect called the Society of the Meek Ones and Vladimir Scorpius, arms dealer to terrorist worldwide whose base of operations is an island off of South Carolina. Society girl Hon. Trilby Shrivenham and beautiful American IRS agent Harriet Horner enter the picture to spice things up as Bond goes up against uber-villain Scorpius; 8vo ; Signed by Author

Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John (1926-2007). Scorpius [James Bond series]. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1988, 1988.

Price: US$578.87 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy in like dust jacket, 38 mm closed tear to head of spine. First edition, first impression, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Ron. / All good wishes. / Yours ever / John Gardner" [underlined]. 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. 320.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom