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The BLOFELD Trilogy: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice
by FLEMING, Ian Lancaster, (1908-1964)
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- first
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- Seller
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Penguin Classics, 2009. [James Bond saga] FIRST EDITION, first printing, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.597. With an Introduction by Nicholas Lezard, literary critic for The Guardian. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, cloth sides, illustrated jacket panel bound in at rear, red endpapers, t.e.g. Contents clean, exterior as new. Only 5000 copies were published. Precedes the American equivalent by nearly one whole calendar year. From the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert E19a, Gilbert-Schøyen [147].
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- Bookseller
- Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67012
- Title
- The BLOFELD Trilogy: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice
- Author
- FLEMING, Ian Lancaster, (1908-1964)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Penguin Classics, 2009
- Bookseller catalogs
- James Bond 007;
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About the Seller
Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books, and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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