Licence Renewed by John Gardner, First Edition, jonathan cape (74 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Small stamp on the block of the book. Publication of 270 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. 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: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stamp mark from previous owner. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. The pages are slightly 'browned' around the block of the book, the text within the book is clear. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 270 Pages. The jacket is a little shelf rubbed. It is protected in cellophane. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*11/07/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of the first novel in the James Bond series written by John Gardner. Light age toning to the pages. Tiny red mark on the front dustjacket panel top right-hand corner. Earlier owners' impression stamp to the first free end page. Light shelf wear. In near fine / near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London. Book Cub Associates/Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1981. First Edition. No later dates shown. Hard Cover. Tan cloth boards with gilt spine titles. The text block is evenly toned along the edges and the top edge slightly dust dulled but the book is otherwise clean and unmarked. Condition is very good plus. Iconic vintage artwork to dust jacket by Mon Mohan using a painting by Richard Chopping and featuring a Browning 9mm. The rear of the jacket shows the author standing in front of a reproduction of Villier's portrait of Ian Fleming. Jacket has some minor tape wear at the flaps and just a hint at the spine ends but is very good plus/near fine. In 1981, Gardner was asked to revive Ian Fleming's Bond series of novels. This title is the first he wrote. Between 1981 and 1996, he wrote sixteen novels. While the books were commercial successes, Gardner was ambivalent about writing novels with a character he hadn't created. In the book, Bond's mission is to halt the hijack of 6 nuclear plants simultaneously around the world by the villain Murik.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. F/F-. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a trifle rubbed & bumped, prev. ownership signature to FFE) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, slightly rubbed & nicked, a little frayed at headcap, spine mildly sunning); pp. 270. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. first edition, 267 pages, black cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, fine/fine, pages are bright and unmarked,

HARD BACK PINK. Condition: good. JACKET: GREAT. 1ST. General wear and D.J. nonclipped 6.50 pounds DATE PUBLISHED: 1981 EDITION: 1ST 270.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover; 8VO; 270 pages.

First edition. Hardcover. Edges very slightly foxed, o/w fine in very good price-clipped dustjacket with a few closed tears and light rubbing. First "James Bond" novel by Gardner.

first edition, black cloth, 270pp, VG+(v sl edgewear, prev owners sign to front pastedown, v sl foxing to text edges) d/w VG+(v sl wear to extrems with v sl tear to spine head).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in slightly worn jacket. Flap is not clipped. Textured black paper covered boards with gold lettering stamped on spine edge. Foxing & dust stains to textblock top edge & fore-edge. First UK edition. Jacket design by Mon Mohan using a commissioned water-colour painting by Richard Chopping. Photograph by Jerry Bauer on back cover shows John Gardner standing in front of a reproduction of Amherst Villiers's portrait of Ian Fleming. [270 pages].

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

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 270. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped, pictorial jacket by Richard Chopping. Spine sunned. A clean, neat copy; Fine book in Near Fine dust-jacket. First in the John Gardner series of James Bond novels, in which Bond has to stop nuclear destruction of the West.

Hardback. 1st edition. In License Renewed, the most famous secret agent in the world pits his nerve and cunning against a dangerously deranged opponent one prepared to sacrifice most of the Western world to prove that only he can make it safe from accidental holocaust. As the seconds tick away on the valued Rolex Oyster Perpetual, the world comes nearer this ironic annihilation; Bond comes nearer a frightful death and ever nearer Miss Lavender Peacock." 1981. First edition. A very good copy only marked by light tanning of the pages and a small stain on the top edge. The d/w is unclipped and also very good and is now in a protective cover. Scans available if required.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ, Stated 1st Published 1981, 1st British Edition, NF+/NF, Small Black Cloth Titled in Gold Gilt light Wear, 5 1/4 X 8 in. DJ light Rub, Wear, Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, 8 vo. DJ protected in Clear Mylar, .DJ Design by Mon Mohan, using a Commissioned Water-Colour Painting by Richard Chopping & featuring a Browning 9mm-long 1903, made under Browning Patent by Fabrique nationale DArmes de Guerre in Belgium. .John Gardner continue's the very best of Ian Fleming's super spy. License. First edition of the first James Bond novel by Gardner.

1981, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Fine in very good plus dust jacket. 270pp. The spine of the dust jacket is faded. Cover art by Richard Chopping. Main character: Bond, James. (Espionage, Espionage).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Pages very slightly age-toned, still fine in a very slightly spine sunned, else fine dustwrapper. The first James Bond caper written by Gardner on commission from the Fleming estate.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 270pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly dust soiled, and with two tiny white stickers affixed to the tip of the front free endpaper, seemingly placed there to obscure a former dealer's price. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper featuring a design by Mon Mohan, based on a Richard Chopping watercolour. The first of the author's numerous 007 novels, published here seventeen years after the death of Ian Fleming.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. John Gardners 1st Bond Book. M reminds Bond that the "00" section has in fact been abolished; however, M retains Bond as a troubleshooter. CONDITION Black bds with Gilt spine title (unworn) 270 pages. Copy is bright and crisp, a little toned to eps. DJ has one short tear top front, not price clipped, smaill price labels one to front flap and one bottom rear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK First Edition. Dust Jacket not price clipped. DJ in original bright and colourful state. Book: The boards are solid. Gold letting to spine clean and unmarked. Has personal note to inside front slip "Christmas 1981". Pushing to spine edge, corner tips have pushing (see photos). Pages are neat and tidy with aging and tanning to edges and outside faces. Binding still good. Licence Renewed, first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. A wonderful copy. Covered for protection. No.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. 270 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £6.50 price intact; black boards stamped in gilt. A touch of rubbing to jacket edges but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards very slightly cocked with rubbing to edges. Binding sound. Pages a touch toned but unmarked. Very Good overall in a Near Fine jacket.

First edition of John Gardner's License Renewed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan, using a commissioned watercolor painting by Richard Chopping. John Gardner wrote, like Ian Fleming, fourteen James Bond novels (1981 to 1996). In all Gardner had fifty-five novels to his credit, with many of them bestsellers. âNo fan will fail to be caught up in the world-scale adventure of License Renewed. The dear old formula of the Mad Scientist is also renewed, with great success; and the Girlâwith a splendidly improbable name of courseâis a worthy addition to the famous gallery of Bond's beautiesâ (Financial Times).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. Owner's name on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Licence Renewed by John Gardner. 1981. Hardback. UK first edition, first printing. Book is signed by the author to the title page. Book in near fine - pages sunned to edges. Jacket is in fine condition. Book in tight bound condition. Clean throughout. Bookseller Inventory #HFB0044858. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition of the first James Bond novel by Gardner. A FINE ( pages lightly browning ) copy in FINE jacket.INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page Richard Chopping jacket illustration. Price intact. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback - A very good book that has been warmly Inscribed by the author. The Inscription reads.AN EXCLUSIVE + PRICELESS/ FIRST EDITIONSIGNED BY/ MY GOOD SELF TO MY FRIEND/ -------. HAPPY READING / BEST WISHES / JOHN GARDNER. The pages are toned as is common with this title. The book is free of any previous owner names or Inscriptions. The dust wrapper is in very good condition. Correctly priced at £6.50net. There is a little fading to the wrapper's spine, but no loss or chipping. A scarce book to find signed, much more so, Inscribed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in the Richard Chopping illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the unavoidable toning to the text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£6.50 to the front flap). The first of John Gardner's James Bond continuation novels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. black publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; gilt is bright; a James Bond thriller; 270 pages; multi coloured pictorial dust jacket depicting a revolver, pearl necklace and flowers on the front cover; the dust jacket is not price-clipped; 6.50 pounds net on front flap; this is the first of Gardner's James Bond novels continuing the series originally created and written by Ian Fleming; Gardner subsequently wrote more than a dozen Bond titles.

First Edition, 1981. First British Edition. Very Fine in black paper covered boards, in a Very Fine price-clipped dustwrapper. 270pp. Gardner's first Bond novel.