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License Renewed
by Gardner, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399901183
- ISBN 13
- 9780399901188
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by John Gardner on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($9.95), rubbed at the surface and edges, a few small closed tears at the rear and folds. Black paper, lightly soiled, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, tidemark on the front endpapers, clean otherwise. Gardner's first James Bond novel, one that sees 007 take on a terrorist with intentions of nuclear war.
Synopsis
Licence Renewed (published in American editions as License Renewed), first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelisations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun in 1968. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8236
- Title
- License Renewed
- Author
- Gardner, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399901183
- ISBN 13
- 9780399901188
- Publisher
- Richard Marek Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Spy Novel, Thriller, 20th Century Fiction, Ian Fleming, Books to Film
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
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Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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