The Diamond Smugglers

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First Edition, Second impression. Near fine/near fine. Hardcover : pp. (10) 11-160 : plain e.p.s : black boards with white lettering on spine : deep orange and black price clipped jacket with other three corners Cape clipped. Light mark to top cover of jacket under the word "Russia"; top edge with barely perceptible… Read more about this item

New York: Dell, April 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Dell 1921. Fourth Dell printing, June 1965. With an introduction by "John Blaize" (John Collard). Very Good+. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine square and tight with a slight crease at front hinge. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 159 pages. One of two non-fiction books… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. London: Jonathan Cape, [1957]. First edition. Inscribed by Ian Fleming on the front endpaper to Sir William Stephenson, who was known as the "Real James Bond." Small octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 200 x 135 mm). [10], 11-160 pp. In original dust jacket. Publisher's full black cloth. Spine lettered in white.… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.160. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher's black cloth with titles to the spine in bronze, original dust-jacket illustrated by Denis Piper, priced at 12/6. A near fine copy with usual tarnish to cheap foil used for lettering, jacket near fine with minor sun-fade. An attractive copy of a… Read more about this item

First edition first printing of this stand alone true crime novel. Light edge wear. Light sun fading to the spine of the dustjacket. Not price clipped. In very good / very good condition. BRColl

Pan Books, 1960. Paperback. Good. 1960. 2nd Printing. 152 pages. Black pictorial paperback. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Paper cover is lightly rub worn and thumbed with light shelf wear to edges and corners. Light creases to corners and spine. Light tanning to spine and edges.

New York: Collier Books, 1964. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage Paperback, Collier AS 554 V; Originally published in 1957 as a series of articles in the London Sunday Times, this book is Fleming's True Crime account of South African diamond smuggling netting $30 million a year until the Diamond… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Pan Books, 1960. Mass market paperback, later printing, 153 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; spine slightly slanted, covers rubbed, otherwise gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listings for Fleming's Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, and for more on the diamond trade, Emily Hahn's Diamond: The Spectacular Story of Earth's… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.160. Illustrated with photographs. Elegantly hand-bound in half navy calf over marbled paper-covered cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Some dampmarking to plates else fine, in an attractive recent leather binding. Jon Gilbert's copy, with his pencilled ownership signature, seller ticket… Read more about this item

Dell, 1965. Softcover. Acceptable. #1921, 1st Dell printing, top quarter-inch of front cover has chipped off

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.160. Illustrated with photographs. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Ian Fleming's first non-Bond book, and also his first non-fiction work. Written with the assistance… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1957. First Edition. 160 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial laminated paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations and photographic plates throughout. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light… Read more about this item

London: Pan Books, 1960. [True Crime] The FIRST Pan paperback edition. Series No G328. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.152; [7], advertisements. With a central section of black and white stills. Publisher's softcovers illustrated by Tayler, priced at 2s.6d. Some age-toning to the paper stock as expected, binding ever so slightly wrinkled to spine, very light wear. Overall a crisp,… Read more about this item

Dell, 1965. 1921, 159 yellowing pages, white pictorial cover with black ltrs, blue printers nk on edges, original price was 50 cents, corners/edges/& head-heel of spine are nicked, creases on spine. True crime of the world's biggest smuggling leak--and the private intelligence army created to plug it.. 1st Printing Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Collier Books, 1957. AS 554V, 124 yellowing pages, brown pictorial cover with white ltrs, original price was 95 cents, corners/edges/& head-heel of spine are nicked, creases on spine, clean & tight. True crime of the world's biggest smuggling leak--and the private intelligence army created to plug it.. 1st Printing Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Collier Books, 1957. AS 554V, 124 yellowing pages, brown pictorial cover with white ltrs, original price was 95 cents, corners/edges/& head-heel of spine are nicked, creases on spine. True crime of the world's biggest smuggling leak--and the private intelligence army created to plug it.. 1st Printing Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good++.

New York: Collier Books, 1964. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Collier AS 554V .95 Cover price. 16 pages of B&W photos. Sharp copy of this First Printing of the First Paperback Edition. A touch of shelf-wear. The beginning of a front hinge crease but this is an unread copy. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases… Read more about this item

London: Ian Fleming Publications Limited, 2009.. FIRST EDITION THUS, SIGNED COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.116. Autographed by Fergus Fleming in black ink to the title page, in our presence. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £15. A fine / as new copy.

New York: Collier, 1964. Mass market paperback, 1243 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; spine creased and slanted, otherwise gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Good.

Dell, 1963-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0.5000 7.0000 4.2000.