Ian Fleming's Commandos. The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII [group of three copies]

Author: [FLEMING, Ian] RANKIN, Nicholas (born 1950)
Title: Ian Fleming's Commandos. The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII [group of three copies]
Publication: London: Faber and Faber, 2011, 2012

Description: [Military History] Proof copy, together with FIRST EDITION FOR REVIEW and FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavos, with monochrome photograph illustrations. Proof bound in printed card covers marked 'Unedited' and 'Not for Sale'. Hardcover with original press release and contemporary review from The Guardian, softcover edition in illustrated covers with new artwork to proof and hardcover. All three in fine condition (proof with some rubbing to front panel). An uncommon group- proofs and advance copies of this title are scarce. From the comprehensive archive of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within), whose comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography.

Gilbert, page 602.

Seller ID: 66904

Subject: James Bond 007



Adrian Harrington began trading in 1971, as part of Harrington Brothers on London's fashionable King's Road, after 40+ years of bookselling in the capital, Adrian relocated to Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Adrian Harrington Rare Books deal in a wide selection of literature, modern first editions, leather bound library sets, children's and illustrated books and fine and rare antiquarian and old books in all fields. Ian Fleming Bibliographer Jon Gilbert curates our world-class stock of James Bond material, including first edition novels, film posters, original scripts and associated ephemera.

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