Talk Devil by Fleming Ian Lancaster (4 results)

First Edition. [Literary anthology] TRUE FIRST EDITION, collector issue. One of 220 copies (all sheets taken from the Centenary edition and marked out-of-series o/s). Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.406. Bound in black Plike paper-covered boards decorated with wraparound typewriter keys design, accented with blind-stamping, titled to backstrip in white, publisher's monogram to rear, royal blue endpapers, sewn endbands. A fine, as new copy. A collection of Ian Fleming's journalism and other non-fiction material, including his 1941 memo to Colonel 'Wild Bill' Donovan on creating the 'Office of Strategic Studies', predecessor to the CIA, plus other wartime accounts. It also contains two unseen short stories. The Collector's Edition comprises unused sheets from the QAP Centenary Edition, bound in 2023 in newly-designed 'typewriter' covers; a regular trade hardback from Ian Fleming Publications followed in 2025.

[James Bond thrillers, etc] 16 volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 15cm). SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Publisher's harlequin hardcovers stamped in gilt, decorated with author's initials in gilt to to cover, plain black endpapers. As new. This series comprises sixteen selected titles, uniformly cased in harlequin colours, being the remaining sheets from the Ian Fleming Centenary Edition in an elegant new hardback binding for 2022. 'Talk of the Devil' followed in 2023 and accompanies this collection Each book marked 'out-of-series' to the limitation leaf and signed by the publisher. Signed.

[Literary anthology] DELUXE EDITION. One of only 30 copies, SIGNED by the editor. Quarter-bound with marbled paper by Ludlow Bookbinders. With a preface by Fergus Feming, autographed in black ink. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.406. Bound in black Plike paper-covered boards decorated with wraparound typewriter keys design, accented with blind-stamping, titled to backstrip in white, publisher's monogram to rear, royal blue endpapers, sewn endbands. A fine, as-new copy. A collection of Ian Fleming's journalism and other non-fiction material. The standalone edition comprises unused sheets from the QAP Centenary Edition, in a Collector or Deluxe binding. Marked o/s (out of series), it carries no limitation but there are only some 220 Collectors and no more than 30 Deluxe. The Deluxe Edition comes with an exclusive separate story publication: 'The Ordeal of Caryl St. George,' a short story that appeared in The Wyvern, a magazine Ian produced in 1925 while at Eton College. It is the earliest example of his fiction to appear in print. With an introduction by Fergus Feming, it comes as a card-bound pamphlet held in a pocket inside the rear board. Signed.

[Literary anthology] TRADE EDITION (and FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION), following the collector's edition published in 2008 by Queen Anne Press. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.305; [3], blank. Illustrated with a suite of sixteen photographic plates (some in colour). Bound in the publisher's glazed hardcovers decorated with photographs, red endpapers. Fine / as new. A collection of Ian Fleming's journalism and other non-fiction material, including his 1941 memo to Colonel 'Wild Bill' Donovan on creating the 'Office of Strategic Studies', predecessor to the CIA, plus other wartime accounts. It also contains two unseen short stories.