Licence Renewed
by GARDNER, John
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981. 8vo, pp. 270. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. Price label ('J. CAPE £6.50 NET In U.K. Only') affixed to foot of front flap. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with a little fading to spine and a small smudge to front flap, not affecting text. First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE: 'With best wishes, yours, John Gardner'. Gardner's first continuation Bond novel -- he eventually wrote fourteen. An excellent copy.
Synopsis
Licence Renewed (published in American editions as License Renewed), first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelisations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun in 1968. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek.
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- Bookseller
- Neil Pearson Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3347
- Title
- Licence Renewed
- Author
- GARDNER, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
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