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73 FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958 BOND MAKES IT TO THE BIG SCREEN First edition of the sixth novel in the James Bond series, and the first to be turned into a film, starring Sean Connery in 1962. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, “Honeychile” silhouette on the front cover in brown (second state, no priority of issue). With dust jacket. Ownership initial to front free endpaper, slight spotting to top edge, a very good copy in very good jacket, a little soiled, a couple closed tears and chips at extremities, slight rubbing and nicking. ¶ Gilbert A6a (1.3). £2,500 [153446] 74 FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden
reasons; it is consequently the scarcest first issue of any of the James Bond books. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gun design to front cover in gilt, green and white endpapers. With dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown, ownership signature to front free endpaper. Slight lean to spine, foxing to edges, contents otherwise clean. A very good copy in bright jacket, spine mildly toned, extremities rubbed, not price-clipped. ¶ Gilbert A13a (1.1). £10,000 [153298] 75 FORSTER, E. M. The Longest Journey. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1907 First edition of the author’s second book, preceded by Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905). It was issued in a print run of 1,587 copies. “I believe this to be Mr. Forster’s own favourite . . . the book angrily contrasts altruistic undergraduate friendship with the possessiveness of marriage. The title is from Shelley’s tirade at monogamy” (Connolly). “Its themes are truth and loyalty versus convention and self-interest, the English countryside versus suburbia, the constrictions of bourgeois marriage, the aesthetic impulse versus the worldly,
the tragic result of ignoring the defining or ‘symbolic’ moment” ( ODNB ). Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover in gilt. Cloth bright, a little rubbing to extremities, contents slightly foxed. A very good copy. ¶ Connolly, Modern Movement, 19; Kirkpatrick A2a. £1,000 [128003]
Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 WITH THE GUN BLOCKED IN GILT
First edition, first issue, first state, with the gilt gun design to the front cover, a design in line with the binding of other Bond novels, whereby a device was stamped onto the front cover. This gun device was abandoned very early in the binding run for economic
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