Kingsley Adams (19 results)

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and minor tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to , 319 pp, 24 colour plates, 223 black and white illustrations, original cloth in a dust wrapper with a tear to the head of the spine, otherwise an excellent copy. Ignore ABE stock image, our copy has a dust wrapper!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frank Adams (illustrator). The boards are blue cloth with lettering and pictorial illustrations on the spine and front board. There is edge ware bumping and scuffing, with a minimal amount of the illustrations paint rubbing off on the top left front corner, close to the spine. The spine at the back board has internally cracked, but still remains in tact with the webbing. There is no jacket with this book. The book is Circa 1919 and there is pen writing on the front end paper with a date of 1919 on it. It must be dated prior to this date. The pages only have a very minimal spotting or age tanning. They are in a very good condition. There are coloured illustrations at the front of the book. Overall, I would class this book in a very good condition, given the age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wrapper design by Tom Adams (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st.printing ; dust wrapper not price clipped ; no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 30x22cm. First edition. Part One - Works of art up to 1632, Part Two - Works of art from 1632 to 'present' day. pp319(1) with 16 colour plates, numerous monochrome illustrations, and indexes; lilac top edge and endpapers. Maroon cloth, backstrip titled in gilt. Lower outer corner of rear cover slightly bumped. VERY GOOD ccopy in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed, and with a couple of minor nicks.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 4to (30cm by 22cm), 319pp. 16 colour plates, 223 b&w plates. Original burgundy cloth, dustwrapper. The inner flaps of the dustwrapper have been taped to the book, and there is a short ownership inscription; otherwise, the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0094576408.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. An unread book in a fine condition dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Tom Adams (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine and leading edges of jacket slightly faded, corners slightly rubbed, slight lean, not price clipped (£3.50), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 208pp. It is England in 1976, but things are not the same. The Reformation and the split with Rome never happened and an all powerful Catholic Church rules the western world. Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato, an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious to discover. In a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes? Quite a scarce book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1971, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket slightly rubbed (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. This book is both large (215mm x 290, 319pp) and heavy (2kg). Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Marked and Worn. Mainly a reading copy. Inscription dated 1921. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Issued only to subscribers. 42nd volume. Boards are a little dirty, with minor foxing. Spine is slightly cocked. Spine ends are bumped. Slight wear on leading corners. One or two slight foxing marks at front and rear. Binding is sound. Text and illustrations are clear throughout. AF. Used.

Hard back binding in publisher's original faded paper covers, ragged and sun darkened paper title lettering label to the spine, cameo paper label to the upper panel. 8vo 7'' x 5'' 122 pp. Colour frontispiece by Adams, line drawings by Bailey. Foxing to the end papers. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st printing. An unread book in an as new condition DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Adams Frank (illustrator). Covers very rubbed. Illustrated eps. Near name and date 1913 in pencil on top of first title page.Internally very clean with no foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tom Adams (jacket painting) (illustrator). The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.375 inches. 244 pages. Review copy slip laid in. The dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve, taped to the boards. Previous owner's name and date stamped on fep. The first post-Ian Fleming James Bond novel, written under a pseudonym by Kingsley Amis. Beautifully designed jacket by Tom Adams. Following the death of Ian Fleming on 12 August 1964, the rights to the Bond novels were held by Glidrose Publications (now Ian Fleming Publications). After Glidrose released the remaining Fleming worksThe Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylightsthey decided to commission a sequel in order to retain rights in the Bond product. They chose Amis to write the first continuation Bond novel; Amis had previously produced The James Bond Dossiera critical analysis of the Bond booksunder his own name, and The Book of Bond, a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective agents, using the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William ("Bill") Tanner. For the pseudonym, Peter Fleming - Ian Fleming's brother - initially suggested "George Glidrose". Jonathan Cape rejected this name, claiming that it had no selling or publicity power. Markham was then chosen. Despite this, Amis's involvement as continuation author was not a secret; American editions of the book identified Amis as the author, though the main Robert Markham credit remained. Sir Kingsley William Amis CBE (16 April 1922 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Amis became associated with Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, which he admired, in the late 1960s, when he began composing critical works connected with Bond, either under a pseudonym or uncredited. In 1965, he wrote the popular James Bond Dossier under his own name. The same year, he wrote The Book of Bond, or, Every Man His Own 007, a tongue-in-cheek how-to manual about being a sophisticated spy, under the pseudonym "Lt Col. William ('Bill') Tanner", Tanner being M's chief of staff in many of Fleming's novels. In 1968, Amis wrote Colonel Sun, which was published under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". Kingsley Amis had edited Fleming's final 007 story in 1965. Lunch, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on M, who is convalescing in his Regency house in Berkshire--the life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency, until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped and all of his house staff savagely murdered. The action ricochets across the globe, but quickly enough lands Bond on a volcanic Greek island, where the malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China is collaborating with the ex-Nazi commander, Von Richter, in planning a world-dominating conspiracy. The stakes have never been higher, nor the dangers more complex. Bond's allies--the beautiful, brown-haired Greek agent, Ariadne Alexandrou; along with a tough-as-nails former World War II resistance fighter--are quickly neutralized by the venomous Colonel Sun. Alone and unarmed, faces off against these two nefarious villains. Stripped of all professional aids, James Bond faces the deadly devices of Colonel Sun and his Nazi cohort in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical abilities. First U.S. Edition [stated] and presumed first printing.

London Constable 1971 First Edition. 4to. Cloth with sl.dam. dustjacket. With illustrations in color and b/w. 319 pages. NEAR FINE COPY [Art Art / International general [Algemene Internationale Kunst] ].