Quarto. Original full limp vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, original green cotton ties, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Colour frontispiece, 11 mounted colour plates, with captioned tissue guards by William Russell Flint. Natural colour variance to vellum, as usual, with some minor marks to spine and front cover, minor toning to captioned tissue guards; a near-fine copy. ¶ Gardner, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Unsigned Limited Edition Works of Sir William Russell Flint , [1994], p. 116; Ransom, p. 395. £800 [159056] 206 FOWLES, John. The Collector. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 First edition, with a compliments slip inscribed by the author laid-in, “Best wishes! John Fowles Lyme Regis”. This, the author’s debut, was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar in 1965. Fowles lived in Lyme Regis for much of his life, moving permanently to Underhill Farm in 1965. The Dorset town was the setting for The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969). Octavo. Original reddish-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge brown. With Tom Adams dust jacket. Two corners lightly bumped, cloth fresh and clean, fore edge a touch foxed, front inner hinge just starting, front free endpaper price-clipped, slight offsetting to gutters of first three leaves, p. 253 a little proud. A near-fine copy in jacket, both flaps price-clipped, spine panel a touch sunned, two spots of rubbing to front panel, light foxing to fold of rear flap, a little soiling to rear panel, free from nicks and very sharp. £500 [156379]
202 FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Pan Books, 1965 First paperback edition, fourteenth printing, promotional copy for Player’s cigarettes, with an inserted printed letter by Domino to James Bond (addressed as “Darling”), mentioning Player’s cigarettes and asking Bond to read pp. 152–55 of the accompanying book (which is the section discussing the Player’s cigarette brand). Octavo. Original pictorial card wrappers with movie tie-in design, priced at 3s. 6d. One leaf, watermarked, measuring 227 × 149mm, folded twice (to be tucked inside the paperback). Housed in a custom black cloth chemise. Slight creasing to spine, extremities slightly rubbed, contents toned, as expected, otherwise clean; a near-fine copy. ¶ Gilbert A9a(25.1); The Schøyen Collection No. 71. £500 [155921] 203 FLEMING, Ian. The James Bond Omnibus. Volumes 001–006. London: Titan Publishing Group, 2009–14 First editions thus, containing the James Bond comic strips as originally serialized in the Daily Express , in numerical sequence to their order of publication. 6 volumes, square octavo. Original illustrated wrappers. Housed in a custom black slipcase. Monochrome comic illustrations throughout. Occasional minor creasing to bright wrappers, contents clean. A fine set. ¶ Mentioned in Gilbert across numerous pages; The Schøyen Collection Nos. 179–184. £500 [156663]
204 FLEMING, Ian – DEAVER, Jeffrey. Carte Blanche. London: Bentley 007, 2011 First edition, limited “White” Bentley edition, number 22 of 500 copies only, issued with a chrome case in the shape of a Bentley Continental GT, as featured in the novel. A “Red” edition was also issued in a similar format, without the chrome case. This slick, contemporary James Bond adventure is set in Afghanistan and Dubai. The book block of this edition features a hollowed out housing to the top of the folios, containing a chrome 9 mm bullet with this copy’s issue number engraved on the primer. Octavo. Original white leather boards, spine and boards lettered and blocked in blind, white leather doublures, silk bookmarker. Housed in chrome case. In the original unopened cardboard mailing box. A fine copy. ¶ Gilbert, p. 613; The Schøyen Collection No. 397. £750 [ 156139 ] 205 FLINT, William Russell (illus.) The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius. Translated by George Long. London: Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, 1909 First Flint edition, number 351 of 500 copies printed on paper at the Riccardi Press; there were also 17 copies printed on vellum. A crisp copy of this beautiful publication, issued by Philip Lee Warner’s Riccardi Press, which was well known for fine editions of Chaucer, Malory, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Browning.
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