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FLEMING TO ANTHONY MARBER
19. FLEMING, Ian THUNDERBALL Cape, 1961. First edition. Original black cloth with blind stamped skeletal hand on upper cover, in the pictorial dustwrapper, with a striking design by Richard Chopping. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Fleming, “To Anthony from the author”. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. [40151] £12,500 This book was inscribed by Fleming to Anthony Marber, a journalist colleague.
INSCRIBED BY CONAN DOYLE 18. DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES George Newnes, 1892. First edition, in the primary binding with no street name. Quarto. Original pale blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, pale grey patterned endpapers, edges gilt. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Yours ty, A Conan Doyle, March 16 /15”. Illustrated throughout the text by Sydney Paget. A very good copy indeed with minor wear to the spine ends and edges and light abrading to the gilt panels on the spine. Internally tight with a previous ownership inscription on half-title and a little scattered foxing. [40257] £85,000 Although Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance some four years earlier in ‘A Study in Scar - let’, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes marks the great detective’s debut in a short story, the form in which he is best known and which propelled Holmes to the status of detective fiction’s most enduring character and his author to literary celebrity. Inscribed copies are of the utmost scarcity, with only four copies offered at auction in the last 100 years.
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 20. FLEMING, Ian ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE Cape, 1963.
First edition, deluxe issue, number 128 of 250 copies, signed by the author. Original quarter vellum over black boards in publisher’s original clear glassine dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece illustration of Fleming by Amhurst Villiers not included in the trade edition. A fine copy with an unusually clean vellum spine. Page edges slightly tanned with a small mark to the fore edge. The glassine shows a couple of tears, but is mainly complete. [40159] £15,000 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the only Bond novel to be issued in this deluxe format and is uncommon by dint of its limitation. Over time, the vellum has shown a tendency to yellow, and copies in such nice condition, with the original glassine, are scarce.
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