Fleming, Ian.

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN.

Jonathan Cape, 1965. 1st Ed., 1st Issue with 2nd State binding B. 221pp. + [iii] blank. Light age toning to inner margins, dec. green e.ps., very minor spotting to top edge of leaves, original bronze lettered black cloth, in Richard Chopping d/w. featuring a golden gun with an ivory butt-plate, a snake’s skull, green leaves, two flies and 4 golden bullets arranged in an ‘M’ shape, corners and head and tail of lightly browned spine sl. chipped.
¶ Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, p. 418, A13a (1.3). With ‘Adventures 1 and 2’ on verso of half title. Some 45,000 copies are recorded in this binding by March 1965. The final figure is likely 46,607.

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Fleming, Ian.

ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE.

Jonathan Cape, 1963. 1st Ed., 1st Imp. 288pp. F.e.ps. very lightly browned, light age toning to inner margins, some very minor spotting to edges of leaves occasionally intruding onto inner margins of lower leading corners of last few leaves, original silver lettered dark brown cloth with white ski-track motif to upper board, binding sl. cockled, very minor fading to lower board with sm. mark to lower leading corner, in Richard Chopping d/w. featuring a pair of artist’s hands drawing with a pencil the Bond family coat of arms upon a sheet of white parchment which is resting on a wooden background, edges and spine browned and sl. chipped.
¶ Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, p. 358, A11a (1.1).

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Fleming, Ian.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE.

Jonathan Cape, 1964. 1st Ed., 1st Imp., 1st State. 256pp. Edges of leaves lightly spotted occasionally intruding onto inner margins, very sl. thumbing to fore edge of title page, ‘bamboo’ patterned e.ps., f.e.ps. browned, original silver lettered black cloth with 7 gilt stamped Japanese characters running vertically down upper board, some very minor marking, in sl. spotted Richard Chopping d/w. featuring a poisonous toad, a dragonfly and pink chrysanthemum on a bamboo platform, edges and spine browed and sl. chipped.
¶ Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, p.391, A12 (1.1). With ‘First Published 1964’ to verso of title page.

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Friel, George.

MR. ALFRED M.A. A Novel.

Calder & Boyars, 1972. 1st UK Ed. 217pp. + [vii]. Front f.e.p. sl. browned, original gilt lettered cloth damaged with sl. loss to lower edge of lower board, otherwise good in d/w.

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Gérard, Francis.

THE MIND OF JOHN MEREDITH.

MacDonald & Co., 1952. Sm. 8vo. 255pp. + [i]. Marginal browning, from the library of Anthony Lejeune, half title sl. adhered to pastedown along gutter hinge, black lettered brown cloth, soiled, sl. soiled d/w. chipped with loss particularly to head of spine.
¶ First published by Macdonald and Co. in 1946.

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Gérard, Francis.

SINISTER SECRET.

Macdonald & Co., 1952. 1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. 240pp. From the library of Anthony Lejeune, e.ps. lightly browned, original yellow lettered black cloth, minor marking, chipped and creased Stein d/w. with loss to spine and corners.

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Golding, William.

THE INHERITORS.

Faber and Faber, 1955. 1st Ed. 233pp. + [vii] blank. Sm. ownership signature, very good in original bright gilt lettered cloth, in Anthony Gross d/w. with some very minor soiling.
¶ The authors second novel.

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Grafton, Sue.

"E" IS FOR EVIDENCE. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery.

Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1988. 1st US Ed. [x] + 227pp. + [iii]. Light marginal browning, good in d/w.

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Grass, Günter.

THE TIN DRUM. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

Secker & Warburg, 1981. Reprint. 591pp. + [i]. Top edge of leaves sl. spotted, original cloth with some very minor rubbing to extremities, in lightly soiled and sl. chipped d/w.

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Graves, Robert.

IMPENETRABILITY Or the Proper Habit of English.

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press ..., 1926. 1st Ed. Crown 8vo. 62pp. + [ii]. With the signature of Wm. del Lamotte, e.ps. and edges lightly browned, original dec. boards, light browning particularly to spine.
¶ Higginson A22 ‘Issued as Hogarth Essays, Second Series, Number III. Cover design by Vanessa Bell.

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(Graves). O’Prey, Paul (Editor).

IN BROKEN IMAGES Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1914-1946. Edited with a Commentary.

Hutchinson, 1982-4. 1st Ed. 2 vols. 372pp. + 323pp. Numerous ills. Sl. rubbed d/ws. lightly faded to spine.

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Greene, Graham.

A BURNT-OUT CASE.

Heinemann, 1961. 1st UK Ed. [viii] + 256pp. From the library of Lionel Carley, e.ps. lightly spotted, fore and lower edge of leaves sl. spotted, good in lightly browned and very sl. chipped d/w. with sm. stain to top edge of lower inner flap of d/w.

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Greene, Graham.

THE COMEDIANS.

Bodley Head, 1966. 1st Ed. 313pp. + [vii] blank. From the library of Lionel Carley, original gilt lettered green cloth, some very minor rubbing, tail of spine sl. bumped, good in very sl. chipped Ivan Lapper d/w. lightly browned to spine.

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Greene, Graham.

DOCTOR FISCHER OF GENEVA or THE BOMB PARTY.

Bodley Head, 1980. 1st UK Ed. 140pp. From the library of Lionel Carley, original gilt lettered green cloth, good in d/w. very lightly browned to edges and spine.

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Greene, Graham.

GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL. The Story of an Involvement.

Bodley Head, 1984. 1st Ed. 224pp. From the library of Lionel Carley, original gilt lettered green cloth, some minor rubbing, binding sl. cockled, minor spotting to front f.e.p., good in d/w.

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