James Bond First Editions

'Paris Courier' [From A View To A Kill] (A New James Bond Adventure), and 'Thunderball' contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Vols 352-3.

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964).

Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated, January - December 1961. [Men's Magazine] FIRST US APPEARANCES of these two James Bond adventures. Bound volume collecting twelve issues (the complete year, 1961). Large Octavo (28 x 22cm). Brown buckram, lettered in gilt to spine, with publisher's photographic covers bound in, white endpapers. Contents clean. Robust binding in near fine condition with a few minor marks to boards. An excellent copy, inside and out. An unusual publication to find in bound form. Scarce thus. A monthly literary journal featuring fiction from Ian Fleming, Rex Stout, Geoffrey Household, Hammond Innes, Ed McBain, Berkely Mather, John D. MacDonald, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett and Winston Churchill. This is is the first American illustrated edition of these two James Bond stories. From the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with pencil ownership. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #67107

Gilbert, A8b, A9b.

Price: £450.00