James Bond First Editions

'Mister Big' [in] Best Secret Service Stories.

WELCOME, John [Editor] (Ian Fleming, John Buchan, Somerset Maugham, Dennis Wheatley, Conan Doyle, etc.)

London: Faber and Faber, 1960. [Anthology of spy stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean, edges a little dusty/toned. Exterior as new. Near fine, in an attractive recent leather binding. Contains an excerpt from Ian Fleming's James Bond novel 'Live and Let Die'. Fleming is also discussed at length within the introduction. This copy was specially bound for Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #67935

Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, A2a, page 81.

Price: £175.00