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Licence Renewed
by Gardner, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Book Club Associates, 1981. A James Bond 007 Thriller. John Gardner was asked by Glidrose Publications Ltd, the owners of the James Bond literary copyright, to undertake the task of transporting 007 into the 1980s. Tan cloth, gilt text on spine. 270pp. Light spotting to text block edge with a trace of foxing to endpapers. Pages cleam, binding tight. Unclipped DJ has sunned spine, 2 thumbnail sized paper losses to top edge and light chipping to lower front corner. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Licence Renewed (published in American editions as License Renewed), first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. It was the first proper James Bond novel (not counting novelisations and a faux biography) since Kingsley Amis's Colonel Sun in 1968. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Richard Marek.
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Details
- Seller
- All Booked
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000823
- Title
- Licence Renewed
- Author
- Gardner, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Thriller Espionage James Bond Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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