James Bond First Editions

Death is Forever [James Bond series].

GARDNER, John (1926-2007).

Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy in very good dust jacket, rubbed and slithly creased, otherwise still bright and attractive. First edition, first impression, the twelfth novel by John Gardner to feature Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Item #156099

Gilbert, page 613; The Schøyen Collection No. 343.

Price: £50.00