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Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform edition of the James Bond novels. A complete set. Comprising Casino Royale, Moonraker, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun (all that were published)
by FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964)
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, NY: MacMillan, Viking & The New American Library, 1965. [Spy novels] The FIRST AMERICAN BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Nine volumes. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and various coloured leatherette strips to fore-edges, various coloured topstains, 'girl and gun' jacket design against backgrounds of grey, blue and yellow. No ink names or writing, rubber ink stamp to flap of 'Dr.No' (offset to f.e.p.), some toning to edges, jackets have some small chips and tears to extremities, a few marks, two are sunned to spines. Generally a very good to near fine collection. This is the standard U.S. series, issued in the mid-1960s onwards. A total of James Bond titles were released in this set, which is complete as published. Alternate colours of binding trim and/or jacket exist for all titles. See Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming The Bibliography A1b(3).
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- Seller
- Adrian Harrington Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 66511
- Title
- Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform edition of the James Bond novels. A complete set. Comprising Casino Royale, Moonraker, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun (all that were published)
- Author
- FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York, NY: MacMillan, Viking & The New American Library, 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- James Bond 007;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Adrian Harrington Rare Books
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About the Seller
Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
About Adrian Harrington Rare Books
Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers in the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's fashionable King's Road. He moved to Kensington Church Street in 1997, and in 2014 Adrian relocated to the historic Hall's Bookshop in Royal Tunbridge Wells, occupying the first floor of this iconic building near The Pantiles area of the town. Hall's remains on the ground floor offering an exceptional range of quality used books.Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books, and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. We also offer a full and expert bookbinding and restoration service.Award-winning Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.We are always interested in buying quality books in our subject areas, from individual titles to complete collections.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
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