Search Results: the james bond dossier by amis kingsley

Signet, 1966. First Printing. Signet P2960. Very Good condition.

New American Library, 1965. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Book. Good+. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A little reading wear and rubbing to covers. Owner signature on inside front cover. Pages are starting to tan. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. 157 pp..

New York: New American Library, 1965. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: New American Library, 1965. Book club edition. 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches: pp. xi, 142, (6). Tan illustrated and photographic, paper dust jacket with brown and blue type. Tan cloth over red boards with purple type on spine. With appendices and reference guide. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear, a few chips and tears, with a small round circle on spine. Small bit of rubbing on edges and corners of boards. Hinge inside front cover has a hint of cracking. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.

Signet, 1966. Softcover. Very Good. P2960, 1st printing

New York: New American Library, 1965. Book Club . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 142+'reference guide'; HB brick w/white&blue; lt.rub w/some wear on edges&corners; clean,tight pgs. DJ tan w/brwn.&blue-photocover; rubbed&soiled w/wear on edges&corners; 1x3"chip,tp.edge; 1x1" chip,bttm.spine; some ink on bk. "In this dossier, Amis probes the secret of the secret agent's dazzling success.

Id Tape inside front wrap, plus written name, moderate toning, else content appears as unblemished with good wraps displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown. In Good shape for age. To Fleming- With Admiration, as one of the "demi-giants" who like Jules Verne or Conan Doyle left an unmistakable imprint on the story of action/intrigue, this critique of his total OEUVRE in the face of many detractors. These have been as international as Bond himself, from Punch to Komsomolskaya Pravda; some have been unreasonably high-minded; and Amis, a s-f devotee and practitioner, is just the man to defend that favorite fantasy figure. This then is an itemized inventory of her majesty's secret servant, his classy tastes, skills, stances, indulgences, of Bond-girls and Bond-villains, and, admittedly, some of the errors and improbabilities which have occurred. As such, it's an entertaining exegesis of the compleat Bond for the complete collector thereof.… Read More

signet, 1965T. paperback. Very Good. . Shows minor wear, tanning.

Pan Books, 1967. Paperback. Good. 1967. Second printing. 153 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages with some foxing and tanning. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Small tear in front cover.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1965. Hardcover In Dust Jacket.Book is Very Good + condition with very slight tanning to edges, very light spotting to endpapers. Boards are clean and sharp with one bump to top rear corner. A nice copy. Dust jacket is clean and price clipped with very slight wear to extremities (in mylar).Pictures available upon request.Please contact seller with any questions about item/condition.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. . First edition. Hardcover. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. One corner slightly bumped. The dust jacket, designed by Jan Pienkowski, is not price clipped. A tight, clean and unmarked copy. 159pp..

New American Library, 1965-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 7x5x1. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Corners bumped. Bookplate. Owner's name stamped on end pages, else unmarked.

New York: New American Library, 1965 price clipped dust jacket has a few minor edge chips or splits, chip at head of spine with some minor soiling, BOOK has minor soiling or age discolouration to cloth spine, fairly long Christmas gift inscription to half title, xi 142+5 pp, US first edition and impression. First Edition. Quarter cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

New York, NY: Signet Books, 1966. [Bond reference /critique] FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.127 [1], advertisement. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 60c, all edges red. Owner's rubber stamp to margin, cheap paper stock toned as expected else a clean, fine copy. Now a rather elusive paperback, published in the same year as the UK Pan paperback. This is Kingsley Amis' first venture into the world of James Bond. He also wrote the light-hearted 'Book of Bond' in 1965 and the first post-Fleming 007 novel 'Colonel Sun'. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592, see also Appendix A, page 634.

Signet Books, 1966. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Cape, 1965. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 159pp., appends., Neat ownership inscription on front paste-down o/w nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket

London, UK: Jonathan Cape, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition, first impression. 160pp. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Cloth very slightly rubbed on corners, gently rounded at spine ends. Text block edges lightly toned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, price clipped, a little rubbed at extreme corners, gently bumped on spine ends with slight chips, a few spots. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

Jonathan Cape , 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Publication of 160 pages. The Dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Jonathan Cape . This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's black cloth with gilt title lettering to the spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket with some modest rubbing along the outer edges of the dust-wrapper and with some dulling noted to spine of the wrapper.Underside of the dust-jacket is rather spotted and age toned.This copy is not price clipped (16s net) showing to inner flap.There are no previous names or inscriptions present.There are NO former names present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness,no loose pages.The book has some quite heavy foxing/age toning to the page edges.Wonderful compilation of the huge phenomenon that is 'James Bond'.8vo 159pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1965} . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1965.

THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER, Cape, 1965, first edition, some age toning and just a hint of foxing to the page edges, else near fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear.