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United Kingdom: Monday 23rd December (by 2pm)
Europe (EU and Non-EU): 18 December
USA, Canada and Mexico: 17 December
Rest of world: 17 December
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Ian Fleming – Thunderball – Uncorrected Proof Copy – 1961 –
£6,750.00An uncorrected proof copy published by Cape in 1961. Light edgewear and some creasing and rubbing to the spine edges. Spine has some spotting, but a very good book indeed….
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Ian Fleming – Thrilling Cities – Uncorrected Proof Copy – 1963 –
£6,000.00An uncorrected proof copy published by Cape in 1963. Light edgewear and some creasing to the corners of the first twenty pages, spine a little sunned, but a near fine…
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William Plomer [Ian Fleming] – Ian Fleming Memorial – 1964 –
£375.00Westerham Press, London, 1964. First edition. First edition. Saint Bartholomew the Great. September 15th 1964. 12pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stiff black wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover, in…
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Ian Fleming – You Only Live Twice – Uncorrected Proof Copy – 1964 –
£1,200.00An uncorrected proof copy published by Cape in 1964. The usual rubbing and creasing to edges, but internally clean. Perhaps around 500 copies were printed with the majority not surviving….
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Ian Fleming – The Spy Who Loved Me – Uncorrected Proof Copy – 1962 –
£1,250.00An uncorrected proof copy published by Cape in 1962. The usual rubbing and creasing to edges, but internally clean. Perhaps around 500 copies were printed with the majority not surviving….
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Ian Fleming – The Man With The Golden Gun – Uncorrected Proof Copy – 1965
£850.00An uncorrected proof copy published by Cape in 1965. The usual rubbing and creasing to edges, but internally clean. Perhaps around 500 copies were printed with the majority not surviving….
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Ian Fleming – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Uncorrected Proof Copy – 1963 –
£1,200.00An uncorrected proof copy published by Cape in 1963 [April]. The usual rubbing and creasing to edges, but internally clean. Perhaps around 500 copies were printed with the majority not…
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Olivia Manning – The Balkan Trilogy – First Editions
£1,250.00A set of first edition, first printings of ‘The Balkan Trilogy’ by Olivia Manning. Published by Heinemann in 1962, 1964 and 1965 respectively. All books are very good (or better)…
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Isaac Asimov – Science, numbers and I – First UK Edition – 1969 –
£125.00A first edition, first printing published by Rapp and Whiting in 1969. A fine book without inscriptions in a very good rubbed wrapper with a pen mark through the price…
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Beryl Bainbridge – A Weekend With Claud – First UK Edition 1967
£225.00A first edition, first printing published by New Authors Limited [Hutchinson] in 1967. A very good book in very good unclipped wrapper with a little edgewear and wrinkling. Rare first…
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Pierre Boulle [Xan Fielding] – Monkey Planet [Planet of the Apes] – First UK Edition 1964
£975.00First UK edition, first printing. Published by Secker and Warburg in London, 1964. This is a fine copy. The dust wrapper is designed by Margaret Eastoe and has some very…
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Gerald Durrell – Birds, Beasts and Relatives – First UK Edition 1969
£145.00First edition, first printing. Published by Collins in London, 1969. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper suffers from a moderate tear to the front panel,…
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Len Deighton – Billion Dollar Brain – First UK Edition 1966
£95.00First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1966. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, designed by Raymond Hawkey, is bright and mostly clean. There…
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Ken Kesey – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – First UK Edition 1962
£675.00A first edition, first printing published by Methuen in 1962. A near fine book with a small previous owner’s name to the head of the endpaper. In a very good+…
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Gavin Maxwell – Ring of Bright Water – First UK Edition 1960 – With the rare wrap-around band
£250.00A first edition, first printing published by Longmans in 1960. A very good book without inscription with some minor spotting to the text block and some pushing to the head…
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David Attenborough – Zoo Quest to Guiana [with] Zoo Quest for a Dragon [with] Zoo Quest in Paraguay [with] Quest in Paradise [with] Zoo Quest to Madagascar [with] Quest under Capricorn. THE ZOO QUEST’ SERIES COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS – the first volume SIGNED WITHOUT DEDICATION
£2,000.00First Edition, first printings between 1956-63, with coloured frontispieces and a number of coloured and monochrome plates throughout. All in original cloth with gilt backs. A very good, clean set…
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