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Licence Renewed.
by Gardner, John
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- Hardcover
- first
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Jonathan Cape & Hodder & Stoughton, 1981., 1981. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 270. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped, pictorial jacket by Richard Chopping. Spine sunned. A clean, neat copy; Fine book in Near Fine dust-jacket. First in the John Gardner series of James Bond novels, in which Bond has to stop nuclear destruction of the West.
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
- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10133
- Title
- Licence Renewed.
- Author
- Gardner, John
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Jonathan Cape & Hodder & Stoughton, 1981.
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Fiction
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Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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