The Spy Who Loved Me de FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964)

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1965. [Spy novel] Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.211 [13]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and red leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the sand-coloured dust-jacket. A nice clean copy with just a couple of chips to jacket edges, and some light toning to jacket spine. Near fine. This is the standard American uniform BCE, from the mid-1960s onwards. The tenth book in the James Bond series. A beautiful girl with a sensual past, Vivienne Michel is different from all the women 007 has known before. When she is confronted with two evil killers there is only one man who can save her — Bond himself. Ian Fleming The Bibliography A10b(4).

London: Pan Books, 1967. FIRST UK EDITION in paperback. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.172; [4], advertisements. Pictorial card softcovers with original price of 3/6 to rear (also priced for export to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). No inscriptions. Contents toned as expected, minor lean else a fine, fresh copy. Uncommon thus. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography A10a (14).

London: Queen Anne Press, in association with Adrian Harrington, [2022]. [Spy thriller] CLASSIC READERS EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.196. Publisher's flame red 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 issued in 1962, The Spy Who Loved Me examines James Bond from the other end of the gun barrel.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Espionage novel] Vintage hardcover, eighth printing, BINDING A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [3], blank. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with dagger design to upper, white endpapers, in a pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. With single institutional marking carefully erased, contents clean, abrasion to pastedowns where sleeve was affixed, jacket is quite bright and fresh, price-clipped. The majority of Cape's James Bond hardcover reprints were taken into the lending library system to replace existing well-worn stock. Binding A features the dagger motif on type A cloth. Gilbert A10a (8.1).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. [Espionage novel] FIRST EDITION, second impression, crown octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers, without jacket. No ink names or inscriptions. Edges thumbed, a few spots of browning within (nothing serious), boards a little bumped/marked. Vintage hardcover, very good. The tenth book in the James Bond series. A beautiful girl with a sensual past, Vivienne Michel is different from all the women 007 has known before. When she is confronted with two evil killers there is only one man who can save her — Bond himself. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A10a (2).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Spy thriller] Crown Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221. Seventh impression. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers, commando knife blocked in silver foil to upper, illustrated dust-wrapper by Richard Chopping. Contents clean, a few tape marks to flaps/eps, jacket is otherwise fresh and bright. An attractive copy. Gilbert A10a (7).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Spy thriller] Crown Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.221. Seventh impression. Publisher's cloth-effect paper over boards with scarlet endpapers, commando knife blocked in silver foil to upper, illustrated dust-wrapper by Richard Chopping. A bright, fresh copy with ink ownership to flyleaf and discreet no.'10' written on spine. Shows well.

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1962. [Espionage novel] FIRST US EDITION, second printing (stated), bibliographer's copy. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.211; [5], blank. Publisher's salmon-coloured cloth blocked in brown to spine, brown endpapers, tinted top edge, pictorial jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced at $3.95. A clean, fine copy. The jacket is identical to the first. From the comprehensive Ian Fleming bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (bookplate and pencilled note within). Gilbert A10b (2).

London: Foyles [The Book Club], no date [1963]. [Spy thriller] FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.189; [3], blank. Publisher's RED cloth lettered in black to the spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Cuthill. No inscriptions, contents clean, jacket a little rubbed. Very good indeed. The scarce variant binding in red textured cloth; the vast majority were issued in light blue cloth covers. Gilbert A10a (12).

London: Foyles [The Book Club], no date [1963]. [Spy thriller] FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.189; [3], blank. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Cuthill. [Together with] Idem. Bound in publisher's RED cloth lettered in black, in pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions, contents clean, some spotting/toning to page edges, jackets lightly rubbed. A very good pair. The regular blue binding plus the scarce variant binding in red textured cloth. Gilbert A10a (12).