Thunderball by Fleming, Signed (15 results)

[Spy thriller] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's Royal blue hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers. Absolutely fine/as new. SIGNED on behalf of the publisher by Jon Gilbert [Adrian Harrington Ltd]. One of a selection of titles by Ian Fleming, uniformly cased in harlequin colours, comprising sheets from the Ian Fleming Centenary Edition in an elegant new hardback binding for 2022. Originally released in 1961, Thunderball is the first novel of the 'Blofeld Trilogy', introducing James Bond's arch-nemesis and his criminal network SPECTRE. Signed.

[Spy thriller] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. 3 volumes, octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.320; 320; 264. Publisher's hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to cover, plain black endpapers. Bound respectively and appropriately in Royal Blue, Alpine White and Lotus Red. As new. SIGNED on behalf of the publisher by Jon Gilbert [Adrian Harrington Ltd]. The epic saga of British secret service agent James Bond 007, his arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his criminal network SPECTRE. This set comprises sheets from the Ian Fleming Centenary Edition in an elegant new hardback binding for 2022. Signed.

First Edition. [James Bond] All FIRST EDITIONS thus, first printings, SIGNED by the illustrator to the first volume. Octavos (24 x 17cm). Each with elegant colour plates by Dalton, including a frontispiece. Publisher's metallic grey cloth, with silver and bronze titles to spine and upper. Grey endpapers. With the illustrated paper-covered slipcase. Superb throughout. All are either shrinkwrapped (carefully opened to confirm printing status) or in the publisher's tracing paper sleeve, with some additional printed Folio Society ephemera advertising their James Bond series. A striking new illustrated uniform series in hardcover. Autograph obtained directly for this firm by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. Signed.

[James Bond thrillers, etc] 16 volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 15cm). SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Publisher's harlequin hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to to cover, plain black endpapers. As new. This series comprises sixteen selected titles, uniformly cased in harlequin colours, being the remaining sheets from the Ian Fleming Centenary Edition in an elegant new hardback binding for 2022. 'Talk of the Devil' followed in 2023 and accompanies this collection Each book marked 'out-of-series' to the limitation leaf and signed by the publisher. Signed.

First editions. 14 volumes. 8vo. Original cloth, dust jackets. London, Jonathan Cape. A complete set of first edition James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, in near fine condition, about as nice as is practically obtainable. Over 70 years since the first James Bond novel was published the James Bond franchise continues to be immensely popular and Bond remains the most famous fictional spy in the world.  Live and Let Die signed by the dust jacket artist Kenneth Lewis, who executed the dust jacket design of the first three James Bond books.   All in fine, near fine, or very good condition.  Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, A1a (1.1), A2a (1.1), A3a (1.3), A4 (1.2), A5a (1.2), A6a (1.3), A7a (1.2), A8a (1.1), A9a (1.1), A10a (1.2), A11a. (1.1), A12a (1.3), A13a (1.), A14a. (1.).   For a full description please enquire.

[Spy thrillers] 14 volumes, complete. Collector's Edition, 'bound in genuine leather'. Octavo (each 19 x 13cm). Printed on acid-neutral archival paper, with colour frontispieces of the original jacket artwork by Ken Lewis, Pat Marriott and Richard Chopping. Publisher's full hide in various colours, decoratively blocked in gilt, moire silk endpapers, ribbon marker, all edges gilt. Absolutely fine, in the original shrinkwrap. The bibliographer's copy, with original paperwork and loose publisher bookplate (signed) for each volume. This is a "well-produced library edition" which originally retailed at $54.70 each (Fleming Bibliography, p.578). Books were sold exclusively through the Easton Press website or via their catalogue and are long-since sold out. Gilbert F8. Signed.

First editions of each volume in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher's cloth-covered boards. Each volume in a first-issue dust jacket. Casino Royale is near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with chipping to the extremities including the crown of the spine and upper right corner of the front panel, light toning to the rear panel. Jacket design by Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die is near fine in a very good dust jacket (first state without printed acknowledgement to the author or the artist Kenneth Lewis) with light wear to the crown of the spine Signed on the front free endpaper, "Cubby Broccoli, Regards." Albert R. Broccoli ('Cubby') (1909-96) produced many of the James Bond films including Live and Let Die. Bookplate of Christian Heuer to the pastedown. Diamonds are Forever is near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, bookplate of Christian Heuer to the front pastedown. Moonraker is near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket devised by the author and executed by Kenneth Lewis. From Russia With Love is fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the crown of the spine. Dr. No is fine in a first state publisher's cloth binding without the âHoneychileâ silhouette and fine first state dust jacket. Jacket design by Pat Marriot. Goldfinger is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. For Your Eyes Only is near fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Thunderball is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. The Spy Who Love Me is fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. You Only Live Twice is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. The Man with the Golden Gun is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. Octopussy and the Living Daylights is fine in a fine dust jacket. Each volume is housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional collection of first editions, most rare in this condition and signed by Cubby Broccoli. British Secret Service agent James Bond, often referred to by his code name 007, first appeared in 1953 with the debut of Ian Flemingâs Casino Royale, the first of twelve novels composing the series. Fleming completed a new novel annually at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, two of which were published posthumously in 1964. James Bond has been portrayed on film by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, in twenty-six productions.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition, First Impression 1961, Cape. Inscribed by actress Martine Beswick, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) Original black cloth with skeletal hand blind-stamped to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, small mark and gilt name "Geo. H Fromer" to upper cover else Fine. Dust-jacket extremities slightly bumped, a few tiny closed tears without loss. Inscribed "Martine Beswick 'Paula' " Martine played Paula Caplan' in the 1963 film of Thunderball. James Bond and Paula go undercover in search of two missing atomic bombs. Paula is captured but, rather than divulge information, she commits suicide by cyanide. She also played the gypsy girl 'Zora' in 'From Russia With Love'. An excellent collector's copy. Signed by Author.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition, first impression, presentation copy. Octavo. Original dark grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, skeletal hand motif blocked on the front cover in blind (Gilbert's A binding). With first issue dust jacket (priced at 15s.) Head and foot of spine very slightly bumped; a fine copy. Minor stain to a small portion of the front panel, short closed tear to the foot of the rear panel, extremities very slightly rubbed; else a near-fine and bright jacket. Inscribed by the author "To Noël, In exchange for the copy of P & C he didn't send me! With love Ian" on the front free endpaper. The inscription refers to Noël Coward's first and only novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), at the centre of which is a thinly-veiled account of Fleming's affair with Ann. Set on the fictional island of Samolo - a close match for Jamaica - it concerns the secret relationship between the aristocratic Eloise and her lover, Bunny, whose character mirrors Fleming's almost exactly. "In the character of Bunny. we have a remarkably unflinching portrait of Ian Fleming's time on the island in 1949-51, the years immediately preceding his marriage to Ann and the simultaneous launch of James Bond . It's astonishing how little Coward bothered to make up" (Parker, page 91). This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schĝyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schĝyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Matthew Parker, Goldeneye, Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, 2015; Gilbert A9a(1.1); The Schĝyen Collection No. 70. Signed.

1 vols. 8vo. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. 1 vols. 8vo. An excellent copy of the first novel in the Blofeld trilogy, introducing the intenational crime conspiracy, SPECTRE. Siagned by Ian Fleming on the front flyleaf. Of the preliminary dust jacket, Gilbert notes "a very few copies of the published book came in a trial dust-jacket likely a tiny number were produced" Ths speciment is signed by artist Richard Chopping. Gilbert A9 Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, skeletal hand motif to upper board in blind. With two states of the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed published state of the dust jacket, and with a fine proof pull of the jacket, variant text on front flap and back flap blank. Black morocco backed folding box.

First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1961. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper has some very slight rubbing at the edges, some very sparse, a little wear to the tips of the spine - it is not price clipped. 15s net price remains - small black mark to the inside of the front flap. The boards are finely gilt at the spine. The text blocks are generally bright, clean and white throughout but again with some very sparse spots of browning. The internal pages are free from previous owners ink, however suffer from some very slight toning. This is a very good copy. SIGNED by five of the stars of the film from 1965: Fiona Solge (Luciana Paluzzi), Martine Beswick (Paula Caplan), Mollie Peters (Patricia Fearing), Paul Stassino (Angelo Palazzi/Francois Deuval) and Earl Cameron (Pinder). The first title in the Blofield trilogy.

First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Noël, In exchange for the copy of P & C he didn't send me! With love Ian". The inscription refers to Noël Coward's first and only novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), at the centre of which is a thinly veiled account of Fleming's affair with Ann. Set on the fictional island of Samolo - a close match for Jamaica - it concerns the secret relationship between the aristocratic Eloise and her lover, Bunny, whose character mirrors Fleming's almost exactly. "In the character of Bunny. we have a remarkably unflinching portrait of Ian Fleming's time on the island in 1949-51, the years immediately preceding his marriage to Ann and the simultaneous launch of James Bond. It's astonishing how little Coward bothered to make up" (Parker, p. 91). Noël Coward (1899-1973) was one of Fleming's closest friends. In 1948 Coward visited Jamaica where he rented Goldeneye from Fleming for a week: "On arrival, a boyish, teasing friendship and good-natured rivalry over Jamaica began between Coward and Fleming. During his visit, Coward celebrated Goldeneye with a song that complained about the airless rooms and the hardness of Fleming's furniture. Sardonically he referred to his host's home as 'Golden Eye, Nose and Throat' because it reminded him of a hospital. Fleming, too, enjoyed the sparring and wrote about the outcome of Coward's first visit. 'He [Coward] then went off, and, as close to me as he could get, built a house (what am I saying - four houses) and - to hell with the charms of Bermuda and Switzerland! - comes here every year" (Brooks, p. 226). During his time in Jamaica, Coward penned his play, Volcano, which featured characters based on his expat friends, including Ian and Ann Fleming; it was never produced in Coward's lifetime. Coward was a witness at Fleming's wedding to Ann in 1952 and became godfather to their son Caspar. Ann wrote to Cecil Beaton of the occasion: "I dare hardly admit it but Noël is a godfather, an act of treachery on my part as we thought he would be offended if not asked as he considers himself responsible for the whole thing. When he appeared last Sunday he was quite delightful for the first hour. and then so vulgar and dull that I longed to cancel the G-parent arrangement and be frightfully rude to him." Coward owned a holiday house in Dover until 1951, when he sold it to the Flemings, which inspired Fleming to set Moonraker in Kent. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schĝyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schĝyen'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 A9a(1.1). Matthew Parker, Goldeneye, Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, 2015; The Schĝyen Collection No. 70. Octavo. Original dark grey boards, spine lettered in gilt, skeletal hand motif blocked on the front cover in blind (Gilbert's A binding). With first issue dust jacket (priced at 15s.) Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Head and foot of spine very slightly bumped; a fine copy. Minor stain to a small portion of the front panel, short closed tear to the foot of the rear panel, extremities very slightly rubbed; else a near-fine and bright jacket.

First Signet or first American paperback editions, first printings, presentation copies, inscribed by the author to his American publisher, Kurt Enoch (1894-1982), the "paperback pioneer". The individual volumes and inscriptions comprise: i) Live and Let Die, 1959. First Signet paperback edition, first printing, inscribed "To Kurt Enoch from Ian Fleming x"; ii) Diamonds are Forever, 1961. First Signet paperback edition, first printing, inscribed "To Kurt Enoch from Ian Fleming", iii) From Russia, With Love, 1958. First American paperback edition, first printing, signed "Ian Fleming '58"; iv) Thunderball, 1962. First American paperback edition, first printing, inscribed "To Kurt Enoch from Ian Fleming"; v) The Spy Who Loved Me, 1963. First American paperback edition, first printing, inscribed "To Kurt Enoch from Ian Fleming". The publisher Kurt Enoch was born in Hamburg and died in New York. After military service in the First World War, he worked in his father's magazine distribution business and gained a social science doctorate at the University of Hamburg. He rose to general manager of the business in 1920, then as partner and sole owner. After a distinguished career in Europe as a publisher of paperback reprints of British and American authors, Enoch went to the US in 1940. Publisher Allen Lane began his Penguin imprint in the UK, and in 1935 launched an American subsidiary, Penguin Books, Inc., hiring Kurt Enoch as their manager in 1945. Enoch branched off in 1948, to establish the New American Library; Signet Paperbacks being their major imprint. NAL authors included William Faulkner, Mickey Spillane, and Ian Fleming. 1960 saw NAL merge with the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, and Enoch played key roles in the subsequent development of both organizations. From that year until his retirement in 1968, Enoch held various executive positions in these firms, and following retirement he remained active as a book publishing consultant. Enoch's papers are now held at the New York Public Library. These copies are from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schĝyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schĝyen'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 A2b(7), A4b(7), A5b(8), A9b(11), A10b(7); The Schĝyen Collection No. 20, 34, 48, 73, 79. Five works, octavo. Original illustrated wrappers, spines and front wrappers lettered in numerous colours. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. Large patch of loss and slight tears to front wrapper and first few leaves of Live and Let Die, some extremities slightly rubbed; else fine condition.

A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1961. Very slight bumping to the boards and a touch of spotting to the top edge otherwise a near fine copy in like dust wrapper. Inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper: "To/ Wing Commander Dobson/ for/ his very kind help!/ from/ Ian Fleming". Wing Commander Dobson was introduced to Fleming by Joan Saunders who ran the Writers and Speakers Research Agency. In "The Man with the Golden Typewriter" he is mentioned in a letter dated 5th September 1961 from Fleming to Saunders. A superb Association Copy with the - unusual - full use of Ian Fleming's name. He tended to use more often than not the rather more formal "The Author" or the jocular "Ian" in his inscriptions. Exceptionally rare.

A set of first edition, first printings published by Cape between 1961-64. A very good/near fine set of books (some light spotting to the edge of the pages on 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'). No inscriptions whatsoever. All in near fine unclipped wrappers. SIGNED without dedication to the front free endpapers by Fleming. The books were given to Una Trueblood by Fleming in 1960s. 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.