Scorpius by John Gardner: Signed (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED British book club edition. Signed by author John Gardner in sharpie on title page. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, a little foxed. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, no flaws, Signed, First Edition First Print, in protective cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A beautiful first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, top edges slightly bumped, SIGNED by author John Gardner on the title page; James Bond's phone number is the only one found on the body of a young girl floating in the Thames. Something else strange is a credit card issued by an agency no one has ever heard of. Special Branch calls on M; M, in turn, rings Agent 007 to get to the bottom of the connection between a quasi-religious sect called the Society of the Meek Ones and Vladimir Scorpius, arms dealer to terrorist worldwide whose base of operations is an island off of South Carolina. Society girl Hon. Trilby Shrivenham and beautiful American IRS agent Harriet Horner enter the picture to spice things up as Bond goes up against uber-villain Scorpius; 8vo; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A very handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author John Gardner on the title page; James Bond's phone number is the only one found on the body of a young girl floating in the Thames. Something else strange is a credit card issued by an agency no one has ever heard of. Special Branch calls on M; M, in turn, rings Agent 007 to get to the bottom of the connection between a quasi-religious sect called the Society of the Meek Ones and Vladimir Scorpius, arms dealer to terrorist worldwide whose base of operations is an island off of South Carolina. Society girl Hon. Trilby Shrivenham and beautiful American IRS agent Harriet Horner enter the picture to spice things up as Bond goes up against uber-villain Scorpius; 8vo; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A very handsome first edition/first printing in Very Near Fine condition with slightly yellowed page edges and very limited foxing to page edges on top in Fine dust-jacket, SIGNED by author John Gardner on the title page; James Bond's phone number is the only one found on the body of a young girl floating in the Thames. Something else strange is a credit card issued by an agency no one has ever heard of. Special Branch calls on M; M, in turn, rings Agent 007 to get to the bottom of the connection between a quasi-religious sect called the Society of the Meek Ones and Vladimir Scorpius, arms dealer to terrorist worldwide whose base of operations is an island off of South Carolina. Society girl Hon. Trilby Shrivenham and beautiful American IRS agent Harriet Horner enter the picture to spice things up as Bond goes up against uber-villain Scorpius; 8vo; Signed by Author.…

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good plus / very goo plus. Book: spine tips are pushed in a little, otherwise like new. Jacket in new mylar protector; slight wear to spine tips and top outer corners, otherwise like new. Inscribed and signed on title page by Gardner. FAE. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: /Good+. *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by author John Gardner on the title page.* GOOD+/GOOD+. White illustrated jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Approx. 6 1/4'' x 9 1/2''. Small creases to edges of jacket. Small cluster of very small black specks to top edge of spine and front spine hinge. Small pencil erasing to top corner of fly page. Crisp clean inner pages. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Near fine with bowed boards in about fine dustwrapper with minimal edge wear. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Gardner's seventh James Bond novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author by way of a homemade title-specific bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 190pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Edges spotted, and with just a trace of further spotting to the free endpapers and to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The seventh of the author's series of James Bond continuation novels, and the first to be published exclusively by Hodder & Stoughton (the previous six volumes were co-published by Jonathan Cape). Signed by Author(s).…

dj. First Edition. [Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, AUTHOR'S PERSONAL COPY, signed. Octavo, pp.319; [1], blank. Publisher's hardcover in pictorial dust-wrapper showing the original price of $12.95. Autographed by John Gardner to the title page with his manuscript note 'Author's Copy'. Jacket gently sunned to spine, later blindstamp to flyleaf; near fine. An original novel starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. Our own Jon Gilbert, bibliographer of Ian Fleming, dealt with both John Gardner and his son Simon (The John Gardner Estate). Over the years we have been able to offer several of Gardner's James Bond manuscripts, as well as personal copies and other signed related material. BMC No.1 [1984] p.4-13 'James Bond Revivals', Gilbert, page 613. Signed.…

dj. First Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. A near-fine copy in like dust jacket. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert, page 613; The Schøyen Collection No. 321. Signed.…

dj. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo. Publisher's black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy in like dust jacket, 38 mm closed tear to head of spine. First edition, first impression, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Ron. / All good wishes. / Yours ever / John Gardner" [underlined]. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert, page 613; The Schøyen Collection No. 320. Signed.…

dj. First Edition. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author, bibliographer's copy. Royal octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced £10.95 to flap. A clean, fine copy. Virtually as new. An original novel starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler, purchased by ourselves at Swann Auctions in 2010, with auction lot slip tucked in. Penzler's Mysterious Press published John Gardner's 1984 novel The Garden of Weapons. A fine association. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 613. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printings (1981-89). The first eight new James Bond novels, each inscribed by John Gardner on the title page. For Special Services, Icebreaker, and Role of Honor are review copies with the publisher's promotional material laid in. In 1979, Gildrose Publications (now Ian Fleming Productions) approached Gardner (1926-2007), the respected English thriller novelist, and asked him to revive Ian Fleming's James Bond series of novels. Between 1981 and 1996, Gardner wrote fourteen James Bond novels and the novelizations of two Bond films: License to Kill and GoldenEye. Popular among Bond fans and commercially successful, these novels are also credited with influencing the subsequent Bond films, most notably A View to Kill and The World is Not Enough. Octavo, eight volumes. Uniformly fine, crisp and unread, in fine dust jackets.…

First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page; the seventh of Gardner's James Bond novels. Gilbert p. 613. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, light peripheral creasing and minor tape residue on verso.