Search Results: Authors starting with I from Adrian Harrington Rare Books

Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2006. [James Bond reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 281 [5]. With occasional black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. A lovely fine copy. A paperback original. Seventeen scholars examine hidden philosophical issues in the hazardous, deceptive and glamourous world of Double-0 Seven. This copy is 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. Gilbert, p. 611; The Schøyen Collection No. 253.

London: Heinemann, 1973. [Suspense] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp229; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.10. Contents clean, no ink names. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. The British first is rather scarce. A secret service thriller featuring Jonathan Hemlock, likened to James Bond in the jacket blurb. Hemlock is a U.S. Government 'counter-assassin' whose targets are known as 'sanctions'. "A witty 007-type fable of danger, mayhem and treachery" [Boston Globe]. Basis for the classic 1975 movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. This copy is from the prize-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive, assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership within.

UK: Domino Books, 1988. [James Bond reference] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. A paperback original. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.130; [4], blank. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, priced £6.95. With non-specific inscription to title page; Hope you enjoy it / John D. Bryan //. A fine, as-new copy. Described as a 'literary detective story', this is an unusual piece of Bondiana. This copy is from the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his loose bookplate and pencil ownership. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, p.611, 'Further Reading'.

London: Robert Hale, 1970. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.189; [3], blank. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, with photographic dust-jacket priced at 21s. Price clipped else a crisp, fine copy. "In the best Fleming tradition" [Manchester Evening News]. A British secret service thriller featuring Ogle-Oxley, likened to James Bond.

London: Boxtree, 1995. [Movie reference book] UK PAPERBACK EDITION, revised. First printing thus, with strikeline ending '1'. Illustrated quarto, pp.240. Publisher's photographic softcovers, priced at £16.99. Fine. With a foreword by Cubby Broccoli. Updated to include "Goldeneye". From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (ownership within).

New York: Carol / Citadel Press, 1996. [Bond Film reference] REVISED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.80. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. Publisher's photographic softcovers. Autographed by Graham Rye in black in to tiotle page A fine / as new copy. First published in 1989, the revised 1996 edition covers the Bond films from 'Dr No' to 'Goldeneye'. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (bookplate within).

London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. [Verse/Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.90. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Spike Milligan, including endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Fine in near fine, price-clipped jacket with gentle toning to spine and extremities. Typically zany poems and short prose, from the legendary wit. Includes the James Bond pastiche 'Agent 008', which was had been published in the satirical magazine Private Eye. This copy is from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership within. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography.

USA: Privately Printed, No date (1980s). [Biography / Memoirs] ENLARGED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.152; [9]. Illustrated with maps, photographs and facsimile letters. Original blue buckram-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and upper. A fine copy. Partially re-written, with a new epilogue, this edition is in a larger format that the first printing. Equally scarce, this is the only copy we have encountered. A first-hand account of Ian Fleming's war service, written by his opposite number and close friend Commander Alan N. Schneider, U.S.N.R., the personal assistant to the U.S. Head of Intelligence in London, Commodore Tully Shelley [Cdr. Fleming was the assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral John Godfrey]. The volume contains some previously unpublished photographs of Fleming, accompanied by Schneider, mostly taken in Northern France while overseeing commando operations of 30 Assault Unit. Both men were keen bibliophiles, and following the war, Schneider was President of… Read More

New York, NY: Pocket Books, Trident Press, 1965, 1966, 1966, 1968. [James Bond pastiche] FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, complete. The final book is SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author. Octavos, three vols are softcover originals, the final book is a hardcover in jacket, with presentation note to the flyleaf; Best from home // Sol Weinstein. Fine throughout. Presentation are rare. The complete series of novels featuring Israel Bond, the first three having been serialised in Playboy magazine. This set is 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.

London: The Dropmore Press. September 1949. [Literaturel] LIMITED EDITION. One of fifty copies in Niger (although un-numbered/out-of-series) from a total edition of six hundred (the remainder in buckram). Large Octavo (24 x 15cm). pp.[6]; [vi]; 63; [3], blank, printed on cream wove paper, title and colophon printed in two colours. Original full red leather with gilt titles, and gilt 'DC' monogram to upper board (likely designed by Robert Harling), top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Contents clean, a few minor marks to joints. Near fine. An elegant book from the publishing house run by Ian Fleming (renamed Queen Anne Press in 1951). Later owned by Fleming's bibliographer Jon Gilbert (also published by QAP). Duff Cooper was a long-time friend and travelling companion of Ian Fleming. A diplomat and statesman, Cooper was wartime Minister of Information responsible for 'The Silent Column'. He also wrote an account of Fleming's brainchild deception 'Operation Mincemeat' [as 'Operation Heartbreak, 1950].… Read More

London: Boxtree/Pan Macmillan, 2006. [Film design] FIRST EDITION. Square quarto (26 x 26cm), pp.240. Colour photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, black endpapers photographic dust-wrapper priced at £30R.R.P. Some trivial handling and wear, a small dink to upper. Near fine. Sub-titled 'From the storyboard to screen: the creative process behind the James Bond phenomenon', this is a fascinating, detailed history of the film franchise, filled with movie stills, set designs and poster artwork, accompanied by insightful comments from the major players and production personnel. From the comprehensive archive of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (ownership within), whose comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert-Schøyen [557].

London: Arthur Barker, 1978. [British History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.152. Red cloth lettered in gilt, with the photographic dust-wrapper. Fine in near fine price-clipped jacket, with a barely-visible repaired tear to upper. In his foreword, author Conrad Frost credits James Bond author Ian Fleming for the eventual publication of this book (on the Silver Jubilee), a version of the text having been serialised in 1953 by Kemsley Newspapers with enthusiastic encouragement of their Foreign Manager Ian Fleming, under whom Frost was assigned at the time. Frost was a Mercury Features writer, producing the Ace O'Hara comic strip for the Daily Dispatch (1954-64), which bears a striking resemblance to the later James Bond strips drawn by John McLusky. A largely unknown piece of 'Bondiana', this copy is part of the comprehensive James Bond collection assembled by Jon Gilbert (bookplate within). His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography.

London: Allen Lane, 2000. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated quarto (23 x 17cm), pp.150. With black and white photographs. Publisher's grey cloth hardback blocked in silver to spine, blind-stamped '007' motif to front cover, photographic dust-jacket priced at £9.99 / $24.99 (Canada). Small bump to lower corner else a fine copy. Editor Simon Winder was the senior executive at Penguin Books, publishers of Fleming's James Bond novels for the first decade of the twenty-first century. 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. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography.

Scotland: Whittingehame House Press 2000. [History/Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp.159; [1], blank. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt, with colour-plate illustration showing the Fleming family crest laid down to upper cover, illustrated endpapers, green card slipcase. A fine copy, in slightly marked slipcase. The biography of Scottish industrialist Robert Fleming, head of the Fleming bank and grandfather to James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Gilbert, p.602.

London: Boxtree / Pan Macmillan, 2002. [James Bond reference] UNBOUND PROOFS of the FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 27cm), pp.320. A set of page proofs/galley sheets, unsewn, folded in quires, together with two sets of unused black endpapers, with the glossy gold pictorial dust-jacket priced at £35. Includes a foreword by the James Bond film producer Michael G. Wilson. Some handling as expected else fine. Likely printers pages for review/quality control, not intended for commercial purposes. Most uncommon in this format; this is the only such copy we have encountered. 'A visually exciting, deeply informative, insightful and interesting look into 007's universe' (from a contemporary review). John Cork, a member of the Ian Fleming Foundation and a respected authority on 007-lore, has also co-written Bond Girls are Forever (2003) and The James Bond Encyclopaedia (2007). This rare copy comes from the comprehensive Bond collection assembled by his fellow IFF member, bibliographer Jon Gilbert (provenance supplied).

USA; Privately Printed, n.d. (1970s). [Biography / Memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.109; [5]. Illustrated with maps and photographs and facsimile letters. Original dark blue buckram-covered boards with gilt titles to upper. A fine copy of a scarce book. A first-hand account of Ian Fleming's war service, written by his opposite number and close friend Commander Alan N. Schneider, U.S.N.R., the personal assistant to the U.S. Head of Intelligence in London, Commodore Tully Shelley [Cdr. Fleming was the assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral John Godfrey]. The volume contains some previously unpublished photographs of Fleming, accompanied by Schneider, mostly taken in Northern France while overseeing commando operations of 30 Assault Units (two of which appear in the bibliography). Both men were keen bibliophiles, and, following the war, Schneider was President of the American Library Association, while Fleming managed The Book Collector Ltd. and ran his own publishing… Read More

UK: Solo Publishing, 1996. [James Bond toy reference] FIRST EDITION. Octavo Quarto (24 x 17cm), pp.122. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's softcovers priced at £14.95. A fine copy. The definitive guide to the Corgi range of 007 toys, from the '60s to the present day. Dave Worrall is a UK board member of the Ian Fleming Foundation and the author of 'The Most Famous Car in the World', and co-author of 'The Essential Bond'. Inexplicably scarce. From the Jon Gilbert collection of James Bond material (pencil ownership within).

New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1965. [James Bond pastiche] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.127; [1], blank. Publisher's colour softcovers with original price $1.00. A very good, used copy. The first of four novels featuring Israel Bond.

London: Boxtree, 1992. [Movie reference book] FIRST UK EDITION. Illustrated quarto, pp.224. Publisher's illustrated softcovers, priced at £15.99. Fine. With a foreword by Cubby Broccoli. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (ownership within).

UK: M.S. Fraser-Smith, printed by Cox & Wyman, [1989] 2005. [Biography] SIGNED BY SELINA FRASER SMITH. A paperback original. pp.189; [3], blank. Fourth printing. Publisher's card covers with illustrations to upper. Fine. Subtitled 'The True Story of Charles Fraser-Smith, the "Q" wizard of World War II, this is the fascinating biography of the inventor and engineer credited as being the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond quartermaster Q. Working for MI6, he developed and supplied gadgets nicknamed "Q-devices" (after Q-ships) for SOE agents operating in occupied Europe. He designed equipment used in Ian Fleming's famous intelligence deception, codenamed Operation Mincemeat. This copy, signed by his widow, comes from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.601.