Tanner Col William (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Publication of 111 pages. Supplied with a Photocopy Jacket. Photocopy is inside and Outside. The dust jacket is in good condition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 111pp with black/red illustrations - black cloth - previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper - minor surface dents to rear board - dustwrapper is very lightly soiled - corresponding dents to surface of rear cover - SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. By Lt. Col-William (Bill) Tanner. Designed and Art Direction Raymond Hawkey. Photography Ken Denyer. First edition, with reversible Jacket. Publication of 111 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and small tears. The boards are in good condition. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of what you need to be James Bond. Reverse dustjacket for field work. A 1-inch spot on the first orange title page where an area was erased. Slight edge wear. Price clipped otherwise in very good / near fine condition. BRColl.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A witty 1965 James Bond parody written by Kingsley Amis under a pseudonym, presented as a tongue-in-cheek manual for becoming 007. Rich with references to Fleming's novels and featuring Raymond Hawkey' iconic design, including the famous reversible "Bible" dust jacket. A desirable Jonathan Cape collectible and a cornerstone of Bond ephemera. Hard cover with colorful text to spine. Dust jacket price clipped with light shelf wear. Dust jacket is reversible as noted above. Pages clean, albeit a couple of spots of foxing, and tight, please review all scans provided.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. TANNER, Lt.-Col. William ('Bill") [111] pp. Pan Books Ltd 1965 7" x 4 1/2" Kingsley Amis' tongue-in-cheek publication, written under the pseudonym of M's chief of staff Lt. -Col. William ("Bill") Tanner, is a manual for prospective agents on how to live like Agent 007. Sir Kingsley William Amis (1922 1995) was the first author James Bond commissioned after the death of Ian Fleming.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. TANNER, Lt.-Col. William [111] pp. Jonathan Cape 1965 First Edition 7 1/4" x 5 1/2" In Custom Morocco Trim Slipcase An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who holds the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner".

HARDBACK WHITE. Condition: VG. JACKET: VG. General wear on DJ, orange inpapers, Jacket design by Hawkey, Raymond DATE PUBLISHED: 1965 EDITION: 111.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition. Bound in white cloth with black spine titles and a cover illustration of a gun; in an illustrated dust jacket with the front flap price of $2.50 still intact. Price-sticker to the front pastedown endpaper, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Note: the price-sticker cannot be removed without leaving a scar to the red paper. A tongue-in-cheek work written by Kingsley Amis using the Tanner pseudonym. In Ian Fleming's novels, Tanner is M's chief of staff--a recurring character throughout the series. 12mo. [115] pages. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book itself near fine with only light shelving wear to boards and lightly toned page edges; square and completely unmarked. Dust jacket is neither faded nor price clipped ($2.50) with light shelving wear and light edge/surface toning/staining. 1st American ed., 1st printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Uk Edition. The Dust Jacket Is Slightly Creased At The Edges With Some Small Tears. Price Clipped Dust Jacket. The Pages Are Yellow From The Age. First Edition, First Printing Uk Edition.We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Tanner, Lt-Col. William ('Bill'). [Kingsly Amis]. THE BOOK OF BOND OR EVERY MAN HIS OWN 007. With Reversible Bookjacket For Work in The Field. London: Jonathan Cape, London, 1965. First edition of this Bond spoof by Kingsley Amis. Sm 8vo., Publisher's black cloth, gold end-papers. Design and art direction Raymond Hawkey. Photography by Ken Denyer. A fine copy [neat gift presentation on the front pastedown], in a fine fresh reversible dustwrapper showing the original price of 12s 6d net on front flap & with ('' What THEY said of THE BIBLE") title on the verso. An excellent example.

16mo. pp. 111. Few illus. cloth. reversible dw. First Edition.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Small octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.111; [1]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed 'reversible' book-jacket for work in the field; the pictorial dust-wrapper can be rapidly disguised as a bible. Price clipped, else a clean, fine copy. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who holds the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner". From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler, purchased by ourselves at Swann Auctions in 2010, with a pencil note to that effect signed by his bookseller friend and colleague Jon Gilbert. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Ian Fleming The Bibliography pp.634, 644. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 14cm). Publisher's black cloth, gilt endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed 'reversible' book-jacket for work in the field; the pictorial dust-wrapper can be rapidly disguised as a bible. A fine copy in clean, bright jacket, with a couple of faint impressions to the rear panel. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who hold the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner".

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Raymond Hawkey (illustrator). First edition. A very smart first edition of this exciting and insightful fictional work on the British Secret Service, as told by James Bond's closest friend, Bill Tanner. The first edition of the work. Illustrated with brown and red images throughout. In publisher's original black cloth binding, with gold endpapers.In the reversible price clipped dust wrapper for use in the field.Bill Tanner's distinguished wartime career in the Sappers ended in 1944 when he was wounded in a sabotage operation. Years later, he is serving as M's number two, and is agent 007 closest friend in the Secret Service. Author to hundreds of official minutes, this is the first work of Tanner's to appeal publicly. A tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective service agents, written by Kingsley Amis, an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, here writing under the pseudonym Lieutenant Colonel William Tanner. Design and art direction by Raymond Hawkey, an English graphic designer and author. In publisher's original cloth binding. In the original price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Minor shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is very smart. General shelf wear to edges, with slight sunning to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

FIRST EDITION, design and illustrations by Raymond Hawkey with photos by Ken Denyer, printed in black and orange, pp. 111, small 4to, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, blue and red, top edge a little spotted, gold endpapers, the dustjacket ('reversible [.] for work in the field', see below), a couple of miniscule nicks, very good. A manual for the prospective secret agent, with an accent on the hedonism - written by Kingsley Amis under the guise of James Bond's 'best friend in the Service'. Amongst the elements of sport is the reversible jacket, which allows the reader to give the impression that he is engrossed in 'The Bible, Revised to be Read as Literature' (albeit a rather miniature version, with Laurence Binyon's name updated to 'Clarence Bunion').

First edition. Small square octavo. 111 pages. Gold endpapers. Design and art direction by Raymond Hawkey. Photography by Ken Denyer. Full of invaluable advice for the prospective secret agent, e.g.: ''Owning a lot of books tends to go with serious criminal tendencies'' (I like that ''serious'').Covers lightly faded and a bit bowed. Very good in very good indeed reversible dustwrapper (The Bible Revised to be Read as Literature ''for work in the field'') which is slightly creased at edges.

First Edition. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 14cm). Publisher's white glossy hardcovers, red endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed book-jacket priced at $2.50. A fine copy in clean, bright jacket. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who holds the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner" BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Ian Fleming The Bibliography pp.634, 644.

First edition. Hardcover, octavo, 111pp. Spotting to upper text block edges; else fine in like dustwrapper; not price-clipped; professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. This copy exhibits a minumum of wear and is in truly remarkable condition. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "A glorious guide to easy Do-It-Yourself Bondmanship. Authoritatively compiled by Bill Tanner - M's No. 2 and a close friend of Bond's for many years. Instant 00. how to look. what to wear, eat, drink and smoke. and how to acquire a Bondswoman of your very, very own! Kingsley Amis used the pseudonym Lt.-Col. William ('Bill') Tanner for this book. In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, Bill Tanner is M's chief of staff and a recurring character throughout the series. Amis, a close friend of Fleming's, was also responsible for two other works related to the James Bond series. In 1965, he wrote The James Bond Dossier, a collection of essays on the book and film series, and in 1968, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, he wrote the Bond novel Colonel Sun.

First Edition. [Bondiana] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.111 [5]. Publisher's white glossy hardcovers, red endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed book-jacket priced at $2.50. A fine copy in clean, bright jacket. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a fictional character in the James Bond novel series, who holds the position of MI6 Chief of Staff; Fleming reveals that he is James Bond's closest friend in the service, and he was a regular character in the later continuation series by John Gardner. In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote 'The Book of Bond' as a tongue-in-cheek manual for prospective secret agents, illustrated with examples from Fleming's novels. For this work, Amis used the pseudonym "Lt. Colonel William ('Bill') Tanner". This copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. BMC No.1 p.4-13 'Fleming and Bond; Related Titles'. Gilbert pp.634, 644.