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LICENCE RENEWED
by GARDNER, John; [FLEMING, Ian]:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton. 1981. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in the Richard Chopping illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents with the unavoidable toning to the text block are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a hint of fading to the spine but is otherwise bright and without loss or tears. Without a printed price to the front flap, for export. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front endpaper "To Uma / with best wishes / John Gardner". The first of the author's James Bond continuation novels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Synopsis
Licence Renewed (published in American editions as License Renewed), first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelisations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun in 1968. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek.
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- Bookseller
- Lucius Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20505
- Title
- LICENCE RENEWED
- Author
- GARDNER, John; [FLEMING, Ian]:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton. 1981
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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