lt col tanner william (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards may have fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages unmarked. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition.

with dustjacket, hardcover. Zustand: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 111 pages; good hardcover with dustjacket; dustjacket price clipped by previous owner, scuffed, slight stain, edges bumped with few nicks; board tips bumped; edges bumped boards; spine head and heal bumped; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking; first american edition; small stain back dustjacket.

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

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. First edition. Illustrated with black and red images throughout. With reversible 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 the original brown cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. [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.