For Special Services
by Gardner, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, 1st edition with unclipped d/j (slight bumping), black clothbound boards and gilt titling bright, some foxing on edge
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. 1st. hardback. Very Good, 1st edition with unclipped d/j (slight bumping), black clothbound boards and gilt titling bright, some foxing on edges otherwise pages unmarked if somewhat tanned.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The second of John Gardner's James Bond novels. In this heart-stopping thriller, James Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, to investigate a dangerous criminal, suspected of reviving the notorious organisation SPECTRE. The organisation was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the hands of Bond (in You Only Live Twice), but it seems that this is far from true. Bond discovers that the revitalised SPECTRE has the most devastating, world-threatening plans: to gain control of America's military space satellite network.
Synopsis
For Special Services, first published in 1982, was the second novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by McCann and Geoghegan.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC44273
- Title
- For Special Services
- Author
- Gardner, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, 1st edition with unclipped d/j (slight bumping), black clothbound boards and gilt titling bright, some foxing on edge
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 255
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, espionage, Gardner
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8\"\" x 5_\"\")
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