Bloomsbury Auctions Ian Fleming and Related Works

[Blowfeld]

I wouldn't mind a chance for those Christopher Wood books!

Bibliophile (Godalming)

to be sold by auction on
Thursday 18th February

Ian Fleming and Related Works
227.0

227. Fleming (Ian) Diamonds are Forever, first edition, original boards, a fine, sharp copy, lacking dust-jacket, 8vo, 1956.

£200 – £300



228. Fleming (Ian) From Russia, With Love, first edition, tape-burns to 2 preliminary ff., original boards, slightly damp-mottled, 8vo, 1957.

£120 – £180



229. Fleming (Ian) Dr No, first edition, signed by Ursula Andress on front free endpaper, original plain boards, a very good copy, 8vo, 1958.

£250 – £300

Inscribed “Ursula Andress / Honey Rider”



230. Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, first edition, pulling slightly at lower hinge, original boards, 8vo, 1959.

£120 – £180



231. Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, light foxing to endpapers, facsimile dust-jacket, 1960; The Man with the Golden Gun, plain boards, lacking dust-jacket, 1965, first editions, original boards; and a price-clipped copy of Octopussy, 8vo (3)

£120 – £180



232. Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, dust-jacket torn at head and foot of spine, chipped at edges, 1961; For Your Eyes Only, 1960; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; Octopussy…, 1966 § [Amis (Kinglsey)], “Robert Markham”. Colonel Sun, 1968, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some chipping & rubbing with some marking, 8vo (7)

£200 – £300



233. Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, head and tail of jacket spine chipped with loss, rubbed at corner tips, 1961; The Man with the Golden Gun, head and tail of jacket spine chipped with slight loss, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (2)

£100 – £150



234. Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, first edition, signed by Luciana Paluzzi on front free endpaper, original boards, facsimile dust-jacket, 8vo, 1961.

£100 – £150

Inscribed “Luciana Paluzzi / Fiona Volpe”.



235. Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, first edition, signed by Luciana Paluzzi on front free endpaper, original boards, 8vo, 1961.

£100 – £150

Inscribed “Luciana Paluzzi / Fiona Volpe”.



236. Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, chipped at corners and spine ends, rubbed at fore-edges, 8vo, 1962.

£100 – £150


237.0

237. Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, signed by Britt Ekland on title, bookseller’s small sticker on front pastedown, original plain boards, dust-jacket, an excellent copy, 8vo, 1965.

£250 – £350

Inscribed “Britt Ekland / ‘Mary Goodnight’ / 2008”.


238. Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, original plain boards, fine, sharp copy, dust-jacket, slightly rubbed at one corner, tiny closed tear near head of spine, crease down upper joint, but overall a near fine copy, 8vo, 1965.

£180 – £220



239. Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, slight darkening to page edges, original plain boards, dust-jacket, slight browning to spine, rubbed at one corner, overall a very good example, 8vo, 1965.

£75 – £100




240. Fleming (Ian) Octopussy and The Living Daylights, first edition, signed by Maud Adams & Maryam d’Abo on half-title, original boards, unclipped dust-jacket, very slight dulling and rubbing to spine, otherwise very good, 8vo, 1966.

£200 – £250

The female leads from the movies of Octopussy and The Living Daylights respectively.



240a. Amis (Kingsley) The James Bond Dossier, first edition, minor light spotting, original boards, a few smal bumps, dust-jacket, fine, 8vo, 1965.

£75 – £100


241. Bond (Mary Wickham) To James Bond with Love, first edition, signed by the author on title, illustrations, map endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, some rubbing and foxing, 8vo, PA., 1980.

£60 – £80

Written by the wife of the renowned naturalist, James Bond.


242. Faulks (Sebastian) Devil May Care, first edition, number 3 of 500 copies signed by the author, original hinged red satin box lettered in silver, preserved in publisher’s shrink-wrap, a mint copy, 4to, 2008.

£100 – £150



243. Gardner (John) Licence Renewed, first edition, signed by the author to “Windy” on title, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 8vo, 1981.

£100 – £150



244. Gardner (John) Brokenclaw, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards (bound upside down), dust-jacket, a fine copy, 8vo, 1990.

£150 – £200


245. Gardner (John) Never Send Flowers, first edition, signed by the author to “James” on title, original boards (bound upside down), dust-jacket, small bump to upper panel, otherwise very good, 8vo, 1993.

£150 – £200



246. Moore (Roger) My Word is my Bond, first edition, signed & numbered by Moore on special bookplate, numbered ‘007’ from an unspecified limitation [possibly 150] signed at Pinewood Studios in 2008, plates, original boards, dust-jacket, a mint copy, Michael O’Mara Books, 2008; and the deluxe, slip-cased edition of the same, one of 1000 copies, still in publisher’s shrink-wrap, 8vo (2)

£300 – £400

247. Wood (Christopher) James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, 2 very small chips and 1 tiny abrasion, otherwise an excellent copy, 8vo, 1977.

£750 – £1000

Scarce, especially signed and in such condition.

248. Wood (Christopher) James Bond and Moonraker, first edition, signed by the author, original boards, dust-jacket, an excellent copy, 1979; and a signed copy of Wood’s James Bond, the Spy I Loved, 8vo (2)

£300 – £400

[Captain Nash]

Not a huge amount of money to shell out for some first editions there.
I had a rather good collection of Fleming first editions when I lived in the UK. Unfortunately they were not brought over when I moved down under.
Love to get that collection started again.