James Bond First Editions

The James Bond 007 Annual [1968].

[Ian Fleming/ Bondiana] Eon Productions & Glidrose Publications.

Manchester: Published by World Distributors, 1968. [Film annual] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 21cm), pp.93 (the pagination, as with all copies, is awry, beginning at p.4). Publisher's glossy boards without jacket as issued. Illustrated throughout including several colour photographs. Original price of 12/6 intact. Contents clean without writing or names. Binding is tight and square, with no tears to the fragile spine-casing, boards lightly marked, slightly pushed to extremities. A near fine copy. The third of the popular James Bond Annuals, with articles, features, stories and the FIRST BOOK-FORM APPEARANCE of the 'Live and Let Die' comic strip, reproduced by arrangement with the Daily Express. This copy is from the collection of award-winning Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). Item #70512

Gilbert A2a, p.59.

Price: £75.00