Ian Fleming John Pearson (24 results)

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board blocked in stylised 'eye' in gilt, front cover stamped in gilt, purple end-papers, top-edge red. A neat gift inscription to the front free end-paper otherwise a near fine copy in a VG+ price-clipped dustwrapper with a couple of faint creases to the front cover. Quite a nice copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

FIRST U.S. EDITION. Pp.224, with photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth blocked in blue, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins priced at $3.95. An abridged version of Fleming's foreword also fills the rear panel. A clean, fine copy of the book in a very good jacket with a few chips and tears. Formerly part of Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert's collection (pencil signature within). An account of international gold and diamond smuggling operations, published in the UK as 'Airline Detective'. Gilbert B4b(1).

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Two variant copies, the home market issue priced at 3/6 together with the unpriced export copy. Octavos, pp.189; [2], ads; [1], blank. Publisher's softcovers with stills from the recent television adaptation entitled 'Zero One'. Illustrated with black and white photos within. Very good copies with expected reading creases, some rubbing etc, one has an ink name. Formerly part of bibliographer Jon Gilbert's collection (pencil signature within). An account of the exploits of B.O.A.C. security chief Mr. Donald "Flying" Fish and his roving aide Douglas Buchanan; the airline detectives, intent on cracking international gold and diamond smuggling operations. It was Fleming's fourth book related to illicit trading, following 'Diamonds Are Forever','The Diamond Smugglers' and 'Goldfinger', although his contribution here was limited to essay-length. Fish had known Fleming since the mid-fifties, when the pair had attended two Interpol conferences in Istanbul and Vienna. 'Airline Detective' was written with the assistance of John Pearson, who was Fleming's aide at The Sunday Times, and was serialised in that newspaper. Pearson later became the first biographer of Ian Fleming. Gilbert B2a(3).

[Literary Biography] Pp.134. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps, with photographs throughout. Original price: 35c. each. With the memorable fold-out cover photograph of Ian Fleming at the wheel of Bond's supercharged 4.5 litre 'Blower' Bentley. Minor handling/soiling. Very good. An informative first-hand biography of James Bond's creator, written by a close friend and colleague working alongside the author both in wartime intelligence work and as Fleming's assistant at the Foreign Desk of The Sunday Times. Gilbert, pp.592, 610.

[True crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 7-197; [1], blank. Publisher's smooth cloth-effect paper over boards, with red titles to the spine, top edge tinted orange, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 21s. Discreet owner name, jacket with a few small nicks; very good indeed. Airline Detective is the story of BOAC security expert Donald E. W. Fish, being ghost written by John Pearson and introduced by Ian Fleming, who had met Fish some years earlier when covering an Interpol conference for the Sunday Times.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1963-1966, 15 Pan editions. Various printings. Includes 13 James Bond books, 1 non-fiction book by Fleming, and 1 biography of Ian Fleming. Casino Royale X232 1963 13th printing; Live and Let Die X233 1963 10th printing; Moonraker X234 1963 12th printing; Diamonds Are Forever X235 1963 12th printing; From Russia, With Love X236 1963 12th printing; Dr. No X237 1963 10th printing; Goldfinger X238 1963 9th printing; For Your Eyes Only X239 1963 6th printing; Thunderball X201 1965 13th printing; The Spy Who Loved Me X653 1962 1st printing; On Her Majesty s Secret Service X350 1965 4th printing; You Only Live Twice X434 1966 3rd printing; The Man with the Golden Gun X527 1967 2nd printing; The Diamond Smugglers G328 1964 3rd printing; The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson 1966 1st printing. [The last two books with b/w photographs.]. Pictorial wrappers. Condition: Fair-Very Good. Light edgewear. Dr No has tape repair to spine. A couple with owner s name inside. Some have staining or age toning to pages. Overall, acceptable or better reading copies. See pictures. Size: 7x4.5in/18x11cm. Combined weight: 1.8kg.

[Fleming] FIRST US EDITION, Presentation copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.224, with photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth blocked in blue, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. An abridged version of Fleming's foreword also fills the rear panel. Tucked in is a card printed 'with the compliments of the author'. A clean, fine copy of the book in a near fine price clipped jacket with one short tear to rear. Formerly part of Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert's collection (pencil signature within). An account of international gold and diamond smuggling operations, published in the UK as 'Airline Detective'. Gilbert B4b(1).

[Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Attractively bound in black half calf over cloth sides blocked with 'Golden Eye' motif, top edge gilt. Contents clean, a few light marks to covers and page edges; near fine. John Pearson began his career as a journalist at the Sunday Times, where he worked as assistant to Ian Fleming on the prestigious Atticus column. Following Fleming's death, Pearson wrote the first biography of his friend. In 1973 Pearson became the second official author of James Bond continuation fiction, with 'James Bond: The Authorised Biography', a fictionalised account in which Pearson interviews Bond as he looks back on his life. This was sanctioned by Glidrose Publications, the parent company and copyright owner of the James Bond chronicles. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592.

[Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrappers. The earliest jacket has silver lettering to spine with turquoise author's name and imprint; later versions feature gold lettering and a darker blue blocking. A publisher's sample copy in the bibliographical archive confirms the two states, where the jacket of the sample carries an instruction to printers "more magenta". Light expected wear to extremities, one volume price clipped with discreet gift note, one with publisher's statement to p.340. A near fine pair. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592.

[Literary biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates. Attractively bound in black half calf over cloth sides blocked with 'Golden Eye' motif, red endpapers, top edge red. Contents clean, a little browning to fore edge, small mark to topstain, exterior fine. An attractive copy. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with some light and occasional marginalia, pencil signature to first blank, copy of 'Thunderball' statement tucked into p.340. John Pearson began his career as a journalist at the Sunday Times, where he worked as assistant to Ian Fleming on the prestigious Atticus column. Following Fleming's death, Pearson wrote the first biography of his friend. In 1973 Pearson became the second official author of James Bond continuation fiction, with 'James Bond: The Authorised Biography', a fictionalised account in which Pearson interviews Bond as he looks back on his life. This was sanctioned by Glidrose Publications, the parent company and copyright owner of the James Bond chronicles. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592.

[Literary Biography] Pp.134; 146. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps, with photographs throughout. Original price: 35c. each. With the memorable fold-out cover photograph of Ian Fleming at the wheel of Bond's supercharged 4.5 litre 'Blower' Bentley. Fragile magazines with some expected handling and light wear, faint dampstain to covers. Complete sets are scarce. An informative first-hand biography of James Bond's creator, written by a close friend and colleague working alongside the author both in wartime intelligence work and as Fleming's assistant at the Foreign Desk of The Sunday Times. This is a pre book-form serialisation in two magazine appearances: as 'Alias James Bond The Real Story of Ian Fleming' and 'James Bond is Born' [in: Life Magazine, vol. 61, nos. 15-16, 7 & 14 October 1966]. The hardcover was published one week later. Gilbert, pp.592, 610.

[Literary Biography] Pp.134; 146. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps, with photographs throughout. Original price: 35c. each. With the memorable fold-out cover photograph of Ian Fleming at the wheel of Bond's supercharged 4.5 litre 'Blower' Bentley. Fragile magazines with some expected handling and light wear. Complete sets are scarce. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with his pencilled ownership signature. An informative first-hand biography of James Bond's creator, written by a close friend and colleague working alongside the author both in wartime intelligence work and as Fleming's assistant at the Foreign Desk of The Sunday Times. This is a pre book-form serialisation in two magazine appearances: as 'Alias James Bond The Real Story of Ian Fleming' and 'James Bond is Born' [in: Life Magazine, vol. 61, nos. 15-16, 7 & 14 October 1966]. The hardcover was published one week later. Gilbert, pp.592, 610.

[Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrappers. The earliest jacket has pale gold lettering to spine with turquoise author's name and imprint; later versions feature regular gilt lettering and a darker blue blocking. A publisher's sample copy in the bibliographical archive confirms the two states, where the jacket of the sample carries an instruction to printers "more magenta". Both near fine with minor toning, very light wear to jackets, both contain the scarce publisher's statement [Thunderball disclaimer] to p.340. One shows original price 36s., the other with publisher's later price label at £7.50. A near fine pair. An informative first-hand biography of James Bond's creator, written by a close friend and colleague working alongside the author both in wartime intelligence work and as Fleming's assistant at the Foreign Desk of The Sunday Times. This biography served as the basis for the 1989 British television film Goldeneye. From the comprehensive collection of Jon Gilbert, who reviewed Pearson's book Ian Fleming The Notes (pencilled signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592.

[True crime] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Second impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 7-197; [1], blank. Publisher's smooth cloth-effect paper over boards, with red titles to the spine, top edge tinted orange, in pictorial dust-wrapper. With presentation note to title; Yours very sincerely / Donald E.W. Fish //. Contents clean, small and discreet name to front endpaper, price-clipped jacket chipped at crown and top edge of rear panel; very good. Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with pencil ownership within. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Airline Detective is the story of BOAC security expert Donald E. W. Fish, being ghost written by John Pearson and introduced by Ian Fleming, who had met Fish some years earlier when covering an Interpol conference for the Sunday Times. Signed copies are scarce.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition in dustwrapper. Octavo. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY JOHN PEARSON WHO GHOST-WROTE THIS BOOK FOLLOWING A RECOMMENDATION BY IAN FLEMING. Publisher's smooth cloth-effect paper over grey boards, with red titles to the spine in pictorial dustwrapper priced 21s to the inside flap. No previous owner inscriptions. About VG (spine tips bruised, several bumps to the boards, just the merest hint of foxing to the page block edges). The VG dustwrapper is complete with very minor wear to the spine tips with a couple of short edge tears historically repaired to the verso and with some foxing to the verso which shows through in places to the back panel. Signed and inscribed by John Pearson below the printed acknowledgement of thanks on the verso of the half-title page: "Invaluable my Aunt,/ I actually wrote the/ bloody thing,/ with all best wishes,/ from John Pearson/ March 2016". Airline Detective is the story of Donald E. W. "Flying" Fish (Head of Security at BOAC from 1946). Ian Fleming had met Fish some years earlier when covering an Interpol conference for the Sunday Times. Airline Detective was an account of the exploits of BOAC security chief Mr. Donald and his roving aide Douglas Buchanan; the airline detectives, intent on cracking international gold and diamond smuggling operations that became a TV series 'Zero One'. Very scarce with these attributes. Further photographs available upon request. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NOTE THERE WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGE SINCE THIS IS A SET OF 14 BOOKS (AND NOT 1 BOOK). COMPLETE SET OF ALL 15 IAN FLEMING (or IAN FLEMING RELATED) JAMES BOND BOOK CLUB HARDCOVERS PUBLISHED BY (SEVERAL) UK BOOK CLUB PUBLISHERS STARTING IN 1956 UNTIL 1968: LIVE AND LET DIE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, DOCTOR NO, GOLDFINGER, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, THUNDERBALL, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, THRILLING CITIES (very scarce), YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (the other 3 James Bond books - Casino Royale, Moonraker, and Octopussy were never published by a UK BC), plus CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (rare - not published in a dust jacket), COLONEL SUN (by Robert Markham), and THE LIFE OF IAN FLEMING (by John Pearson), published by The Reprint Society, Thriller Book Club, The Book Club, Book Club Associates, and The Companion Book Club - all in association with Jonathan Cape per DJ front flaps, white or brown or map illustrated endpapers, various colored boards with black or gold gilt lettering to spines. Books are generally in very nice condition - vast majority of the books appear unread without creased page corners, no missing pages or endpapers, no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps inside, slight foxing/dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges on a few books, no soiling or staining to boards, sun darkening to spine on TSWLM & sun darkening to boards on Chitty, just a couple of books have a bumped board corner. Original Dust Jackets: small irregular chip at top of spine on DAR, chip at bottom of spine on FRWL otherwise no significant chipping/tearing/creasing to dust jackets, a few of dust jackets have wear to spine tips and/or a bit of edge wear, no significant sun fading/darkening to DJ spines (LALD has slight spine sun darkening), moisture stain on rear cover of OHMSS otherwise no soiling or staining of note to DJs, a few DJs have occasional tiny color rubbing spots or foxing to white rear panels. Overall a nice VG+ to N-FINE books in VG to N-FINE dust jackets of a very difficult to find Ian Fleming James Bond complete 1950s and 1960s UK book club hardcovers. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for sale.

[True crime] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10]; 11-224. Publisher's red wrappers with printed label to upper. Some copy-editing in pencil throughout. A very good, lightly used example of a scarce proof, with an entirely different page setting to the published book. Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with pencil ownership within. This is the only proof copy he has encountered. Airline Detective is the story of BOAC security expert Donald E. W. Fish, being ghost written by John Pearson and introduced by Ian Fleming, who had met Fish some years earlier when covering an Interpol conference for the Sunday Times.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. A MOST UNUSUAL AND RARE VARIANT DUSTWRAPPER. 224 pp. Publisher's light blue-grey cloth lettered in red to the spine in pictorial dustwrapper priced at 21s. The dustwrapper is priced 21s net but is different from the published wrapper that features an airline detective looking out towards a grounded jet aeroplane. This UNUSUAL VARIANT HAS NO GROUNDED JET AEROPLANE AND IS EXCEEDINGLY UNCOMMON. Slightly pushed spine tips otherwise a near fine copy in a complete dustwrapper with a long closed tear to the front panel historically repaired on the verso. Airline Detective is the story of BOAC security expert Donald E. W. Fish, and was ghost-written by John Pearson. Ian Fleming, had met Fish some years earlier when covering an Interpol conference for the Sunday Times. Photographs/scans available upon request.

6 volumes. Proof copy in wrappers with dust jacket; first edition hardcover with jacket; others in wrappers. With many half-tone illustrations from photographs. Proof with creasing to spine and spotting to edges; first edition with rubbing to cloth and sunning to extremities; mild toning to paperback volumes. Overall in very attractive condition in like dust jackets, edges creased or rubbed, proof copy not price-clipped and with marks to verso; first edition price-clipped. Life magazines with subscriber's label on front wrappers, splitting to spines, first leaf of first issue loose, otherwise sound, faint damp stain at lower margins of second issue. The Life comprising an uncorrected proof copy; the first edition with the scarce publisher's mounted legal statement (p. 340); the first paperback edition, inscribed by the author "All best wishes, from John Pearson"; and the first appearance in print of the Life of Ian Fleming, which was published in a condensed version as James Bond alias Ian Fleming in Life Magazine (pp. 102-18 and pp. 112-28), and was subsequently republished as James Bond's Last Victim in Reader's Digest (pp. 146-170). The legal statement was only included in a small number of copies; it acknowledges some factual errors in the text concerning the Thunderball legal case and confirms that alterations will be made for future editions. The Thunderball case was a great controversy at the time and had a lasting effect on Fleming's health. Even after the author's death, the publisher's lawyers were cautious, and some potentially damaging remarks were removed. John Pearson began his career as a journalist at The Sunday Times, where he worked as assistant to Ian Fleming on the prestigious Atticus column. With these editions Pearson became the first authorized biographer of Fleming, and in 1973 Pearson became the second official author of James Bond continuation fiction (following Kingsley Amis in 1968), with James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007, a fictionalized account in which Pearson interviews Bond as he looks back on his life. The present copy is the first American paperback edition of 1975. The work was sanctioned by Glidrose Publications, the parent company and copyright owner of the James Bond chronicles. Glidrose reportedly considered commissioning Pearson to write a new series of James Bond novels in the 1970s, but nothing came of this, and the established thriller writer John Gardner picked up the mantle in 1981. From the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert, pp. 592 & 610; The Schøyen Collection Nos. 247-251.

[Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 36s. No inscriptions, some light handling, short tear at crown of wrapper. Near fine. An informative first-hand biography of James Bond's creator, written by a close friend and colleague working alongside the author both in wartime intelligence work and as Fleming's assistant at the Foreign Desk of The Sunday Times. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592.

(Glasgow: Fontana Books 1962). 8vo, First UK Paperback Edition priced 3/6 to the front cover. A softback (not issued with a dustwrapper). SIGNED & INSCRIBED WITHOUT DEDICATION BY JOHN PEARSON - AS DONALD FISH - PEARSON GHOST-WROTE THIS BOOK FOLLOWING A RECOMMENDATION BY IAN FLEMING: "Best wishes from/ Donald Fish.") to the title page. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. Quite a nice VG copy (faint creasing to the front panel; no previous owner inscriptions. mild rubbing to the spine edges, a faint reading crease to the spine). Pictorial covers featuring Nigel Patrick who starred in the TV series (Zero One) based on this book. that ran from 1962-1965. SIGNED COPIES FROM JOHN PEARSON ARE VERY SCARCE. Further photographs available upon request. Signed by Author.

[Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 36s. Discreet signature to flyleaf, jacket with a couple of neat tears to rear plus the usual laminate shrinkage at joints. Still a presentable, near fine copy which shows well.

[Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.352, with sixteen pages of photographic plates, red top-stain, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 36s. Author's signed note to title page: For James Pickard, / Bond collector emeritus, /with all best wishes / from John Pearson / April '89. A lovely fine copy of the book in a fine wrapper with the slightest edge wear. An informative first-hand biography of James Bond's creator, written by a close friend and colleague working alongside the author both in wartime intelligence work and as Fleming's assistant at the Foreign Desk of The Sunday Times. This particular example has a super association/presentation, from Fleming's biographer John Pearson to Fleming bibliogarpher James M. Pickard. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 592.

First Edition. Illustrations Nice copy in price-clipped, chipped and creased dust-wrapper which is rubbed at the edges.