Bond Mary Wickham (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Lacking the dust jacket. Very good. Owner name on front fly. Light stains on front and rear endpapers. Light foxing on page edges. Signed by the author on the title page.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in stiff green wraps, stamped in black. Inscribed and Signed by the author on the title page. 44 page book on this area of Maine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Very good plus in very good dustwrapper. Name on front fly. Spine ends lightly bumped. Half inch tears on top and bottom edges to the rear and front dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Blue cloth boards, 209pp with illustrations, warmly inscribed by the author to the prior owner on the title page, otherwise contents clean, tight and unmarked in blue illustrated dust jacket, now in clear protective cover. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near-fine with light foxing to top page edges, otherwise clean and tight. In a near-fine dust jacket with a trace of edgewear. An excellent copy. The story of renowned naturalist James Bond, whose name Ian Fleming admitted he stole for his secret agent after seeing one of the real Bond's books on his bookshelf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Sadly, there are four pieces tape to boards, and the upper front cover has light skinned spot where the tape has been pulled. Light rub to head and heel of spine and tips of corners. Flatsigned by Bond on the half title. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Unclipped DJ with $10.95 price shows light rubbing to edges, mainly to lower edge, minor general soiling. "A glance at this book, and fans of Ian Fleming's British agent 007 are likely to cry, "Imposter!" - a rash and incorrect statement, for here is the real story of the real James Bond: the man whose name Ian Fleming admitted he stole for his secret agent. This James Bond is an internationally known naturalist who has spent more than fifty years studying the birds of the West Indies. His work in the Caribbean is described in intimate and often amusing detail by his wife, Mary Wickham Bond, who accompanied him on many of his later travels." (from the jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Gilt lettering on blue covers in a pictorial dust jacket. Map end papers. 8vo, 210 pages. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine hardcover in un-clipped dust jacket. In custom slipcase. Authorial inscription to previous owners on half title. Many black and white photos. Newspaper obituary of James Bond tipped in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Blue cloth over boards, with rubbed gold lettering on the spine. Binding nice and clean and in very good condition, though a few speckles on the foreedges. Pictorial DJ has some speckles from age, but is now protected in mylar. Maps for endpapers. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated 1980. 209 pages. This copy is inscribed on the half-title page, 'For Tom Lovejoy, another James Bond fan, from Mary Wickham Bond.' A lovely association copy. Signed by Author(s).

The photos in the listing are of the actual book you will receive. Very good with sunning along top edges of covers, light dust soiling to page edges, in price clipped jacket with edge wear, tiny chips at corners, a one inch closed tear top edge front panel, very light rubbing. See photos clphE.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. Nice dust wrapper included with short tears to the top edge. Flat signed by the author on the title page. By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Slim hardcover with DJ. Green cloth over boards, with gold lettering on the spine. Pictorial DJ done in classic James Bond (the spy) style, with handgun atop feathers. Some wear at the edges, but overall in good condition. Title page dated 1966, as is copyright page. 62 pages. This copy is signed and inscribed on the half-title page, 'to Mopsy and Tom, from the author of 9/62 of this book, with 62/62 love, Ken Parkes.' Parkes is thanked in the Acknowledgements of the book for allowing Mrs. Bond to reprint his essay, 'On Her Majesty's Ornithological Service' in this book. A neat association copy of a scarce book. This volume comes from the collection of Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, who was a passionate book collector as well as a renowned biologist. His collection recently came to auction near Washington DC, as we were fortunate to purchase a portion of it, which we're proud to offer here. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book. Oversized and overweight books will require extra shipping for safe delivery. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HARDBACK - A near fine book with clean green boards. Internally, the pages are clean, with no previous owner names or inscription inset. The book has been walmly inscribed by the author to a Gracie, to the front end paper. The Gracie in question is the authors cousin. The dust wrapper is a very good example which has been neatly price clipped. There is nibbling to the spine tips, and to the extremities, but is clean in appearence.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine and a dustjacket. Foxing to top edge, but otherwise a clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.25 x 9.25 in.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Significant damage due to wetness. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Elizabeth R. Leydon (illustrator). Full yellow cloth with a dustjacket wrapped in mylar. Minor ink notation to corner of front fly, but otherwise a nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 6.25 x 9.24 in.

First edition. For the James Bond Completist: The saga of the real James Bond, the internationally known naturalist from whom Fleming admittedly stole the name for his secret agent (from the dust jacket blurbs). INSCRIBED by the author, Mary Wickham Bond "for Carolyn, with love, from Mary." Bookplate of the recipient, Carolyn Reeves Corson, on endpaper. Near fine with light rubbing to spine lettering and tips; in bright, lightly foxed dust jacket with rumple and faint stain (appears to small glass ring) on front panel. Dust jacket wrap-around illustration by Fran Rebert. THE REAL JAMES BOND.

A pair of books, comprising: James Bond - A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies - Macmillan 1947. SIGNED BY JAMES BOND directly on title page without dedication. A very good book in original full brown cloth, map endpapers, 257 pages, illustrated. In very good dust wrapper with wear, chipping, and short closed tear to the front panel. Mary Wickham Bond - How 007 Got His Names - A near fine book SIGNED and inscribed on the front endpaper by Bond, 'To Essie/from her long-lost/"Squidge'/alias/Mary Wickham Bond/July 26 1966/The Stafford/London. In near fine unclipped wrapper, a trifle rubbed to corners Bond was an American ornithologist, specialising in birds of the Caribbean and while living in Jamaica, met and befriended Ian Fleming, who was also an avid bird watcher. Fleming liked and decided James Bond was the name he had been searching for and used Bond's name for the protagonist of his first novel Casino Royale and the subsequent secret service series featuring James Bond.