Thrilling Cities, Signed (7 results)

No Binding. Condition: Not A Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Clamshell As New. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [No Book] For The First Edition. Elegant black Nuba® with pink sides. Gilt-Stamped at the spine. The dustwrapper inspired Hand-Sculpted & layered cover design works nicely. A unique & elegant protective TBCL Clamshell Case for the first edition of Fleming's great Book. "Books definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Protect your investment. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available.

First American edition of Flemingâs volume of travel journalism, with the first publication in book form of his short story â007 in New York,â not present in the London edition. Octavo, original half cloth, drawings by Milton Glaser. Boldly signed by the illustrator Milton Glaser on the front panel of the dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Ian Flemingâs world travels, interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the worldâs most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the authorâs Bond canon. Here are Flemingâs highly personal observations of fourteen cities across Europe, Asia, and North Americaâ"from Vienna to Hong Kong to Chicago. At each stop, Fleming casts the guidebook aside, taking readers on an insiderâs tour of everything from a Tokyo geisha house led by the worldâs most beautiful women to a packed Las Vegas casino where fortunes ride on a roll of the dice, and beyond.

First edition of Fleming's classic compelling travelogue. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Jonathan from Ian." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Ian Flemingâs world travels, interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the worldâs most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the authorâs Bond canon. Here are Flemingâs highly personal observations of fourteen cities across Europe, Asia, and North Americaâ"from Vienna to Hong Kong to Chicago. At each stop, Fleming casts the guidebook aside, taking readers on an insiderâs tour of everything from a Tokyo geisha house led by the worldâs most beautiful women to a packed Las Vegas casino where fortunes ride on a roll of the dice, and beyond.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First UK Edition in First Issue dustwrapper. Publisher's original white cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, black end-papers. With dustwrapper. A near fine copy (slightly pushed spine tips and a couple of bumps to the corners. The dustwrapper is a fine and fresh example priced 30s net to the inside flap with absolutely no fading whatsoever to the fugitive pink spine. Inscribed by the Author to the title page: "To Harry/ from/ Ian". This copy has been in a private collection for more than 20 years. The identity of "Harry" is most likely to be Harry Saltzman the co-producer of the first 9 Bond films and this was certainly the understanding of its former owner. The book is housed in a custom-made black morocco-backed folding box. A lovely copy and priced to sell. Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First US edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Robert MacKenna from Ian Fleming". Octavo. Original ochre cloth, top edge orange. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed folding box. Corners slightly bumped, browning to first and final leaves, a near-fine copy. Some staining to dust jacket with extremities worn and tears to spine, a good copy. The US edition of Thrilling Cities is exceptionally difficult to obtain in signed state. The Sunday Times articles (1959-60), collected here for the first time in an American book-form edition, also includes the James Bond short story "007 in New York", which was not included in the UK edition. 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 A16b(1). The Schøyen Collection No. 197. Signed.

223 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. First edition. 223 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Donald / from Ian." The recipient is likely Donald Crowther, a coin expert, who previously had advised Fleming on the 17th-centurly gold coins sold by Mr. Big in to Live and Let Die, and possibly also on the dust jacket art for Goldfinger. Gilbert A16 Quarter-bound white cloth and gray patterned paper boards, stamped in gilt on spine; illustrated dust jacket. Spine lightly faded, else fine. Black morocco backed folding box. Signed.

A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1963. A very good/near fine book in like wrapper which is not clipped and has the usual fading to the spine and wear to the spine tips. Edges browned. Now housed in custom-made solander box mirroring the boards of the book itself. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Fleming: "To Una/Who did so much of/the real work!/from/Ian Fleming" The inscription is a warm one and Una is mentioned within the text of the book ("Take down a letter Miss Trueblood" - p. 28). Una Trueblood was Fleming's secretary at Kemsley. She typed up the television treatment that Fleming later developed into the novel Doctor No and, like many of Fleming's acquaintances, she gives her name to a character in the novel: Mary Trueblood, secretary to the MI6 station in Jamaica. In the story, Mary Trueblood was a former Chief Officer WRNS and secretary to John Strangways, the head of the British Secret Service's Caribbean station based in Jamaica. After assassinating Strangways for prying into Dr. Julius No's business, his killers proceed to the station and murder Trueblood during her scheduled contact with London. Both she and Strangways are placed in a weighted coffin and dumped in the Mona Reservoir; sinking into a fifty-fathom grave as the station and its records burn to the ground. After an official investigation is launched into their disappearance, the head of the Secret Service, M, noting her good looks, floats the idea that they might have run off together. Una Trueblood, a real-life Miss Moneypenny, worked for over ten years as Fleming's secretary at The Sunday Times. She was known as 'a demon typist' and typed the manuscripts of Fleming's Bond novels upon his return from Jamaica each year. Trueblood was mentioned in Fleming's 'Thrilling Cities' and was known by Fleming for her professionalism and fastidiousness. Una once spoke of her boss's move into literature: "He always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book, because he was on the plane to Jamaica and he read such a bad, boring thriller that he thought he could do better himself." Inscribed copies of Bond books are rare, but inscribed copies which connect the inscribee to a character within the Bond literature are exceptionally scarce.