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Price: US$122.72 + shipping
Description: [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.220. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper with original price £11.95 to flap. A fine, fresh copy, virtually as new. Britain's greatest spy returns in John Gardner's eighth original 007 novel. 'Win, Lose or Die' finds Bond back in active service for the Royal Navy, in a covert role on board the flagship aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, where, with the help of a beautiful Russian naval attache, he must once again save the world from a most diabolical plan. 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. Penzler's Mysterious Press published John Gardner's 1984 novel The Garden of Weapons. A nice association.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
GARDNER, John (1926-2007). Win, Lose or Die [James Bond series]. Hodder & Stoughton, 1989, 1989.
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Description: SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy, edges sunned, in like dust jacket, rubbed, small patch of adhesive residue to front flap. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. The eighth of Gardner's Bond continuation novels. 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, p. 613; The Schøyen Collection No. 324.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
John Gardner. Win, Lose or Die - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1989.
Price: US$613.58 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A fine book, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. Signed by the author to the title page, in a fine dust wrapper, free of any loss or tears, with the publishers printed price of £11.95net present to the front flap.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom