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Fleming, Ian : Dr No, Moonraker, Thunderball, From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Goldfinger

Heinemann / Octopus, 1978

the jacket has edge tears and worn. shelf rubbed. marked. previous owner's inscription. creasing. internally clean and tightly bound. 6 Titles in 1 Book. [P.K.]. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

FLEMING**, IAN: : Dr No,Moonraker,Thunderball,From Russia,With Love; On Her Majesty's Secret Service,Goldfinger. [Complete and Unabridged.]

LONDON.HEINEMANN/OCTOPUS,1978.

ISBN 0905712285.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,Omnibus,1st edn thus.[Jointly published by William Heinemann Ltd.,Secker & Warburg Ltd.,and Octopus Books Ltd.Omnibus of 6 James Bond novels; complete and unabridged spanning 1955 to 1963.] FINE/VG++.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with orange+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Top,rear corner of dw/dj with a small closed tear and some miniscule loss to tear; rear inner flap of dw/dj with 3 accidental oblique angled creases to lower corner,and spine/backstrip with inevitable and ubiquitous sunning and fading to a very pale orange - an almost yellow colour.Top+fore-edges generally and overall bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon rexine (faux leather look) boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to front bd and to spine/backstrip,a red+ white chequered headband and author's repeated,printed name illustrated endpapers.Though generally sharp-cornered some minimal rubbing to same and other edges and head+foot of spine/backstrip.UK, thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,14-862pp [paginated] includes 6 complete and unabridged novels,plus [unpaginated] author page,half-title+title pages,a blank (but with previous owner's blue ink hand-written lyrics of John Lennon's song 'Imagine') and individual novels' title separator pages. This book contains six unforgettable spine chilling thrillers starring the incomparable James Bond. Dr No: 007's Secret Sevice boss sends him off to the Caribbean where the idyll of sun,sand and music is shattered by the hand - the articulated steel hand - of Dr No. Moonraker: Bond discovers communist nuclear weapons brilliantly concealed in a rocket - aimed straight at London. Thunderball: Smarting from the regime of a health clinic Bond uncovers S.P.E.C.T.R.E.,a new adversary far more deadly,more ruthless and more frighteningly realistic than any yet. From Russia,With Love: SMERSH - the terrible Soviet organisation of death plans to trap Bond with the love of a beautiful,irresistible woman. . . On Her Majesty's Secret Service: - the devilish destruction of Britain moves forward relentlessly in Blofeld's snowy mountain fastness - can Bond stop him? Goldfinger: - perhaps the greatest, deadliest criminal of them all.Goldfinger said,'Mr Bond,they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance,twice is coincidence,the third time it's enemy action."' Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the heavier weight of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,Omnibus,1st edn thus.
Not SIGNED.

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