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| Latest Review: Ian Fleming's Commandos ( 2011 ) |
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| Author: Nicholas Rankin Published by: faber & faber |
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Just the BOND BOOK ...FACT 1: On 16/12/10 A rare first edition of Casino Royale was sold at a sale in South Cerney, Gloucestershire for £19,000, also sold was a first edition of Live and Let Die for £6,600 and a copy of Moonraker sold for £7,200.FACT 2: On 04/11/10 A rare 2nd edition of Casino Royale was sold to a local book dealer for £1,800 and became the most expensive single item ever sold by a Helen and Douglas House charity shop in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. FACT 3: On 17/12/09 a first edition copy of Casino Royale was sold for £10,625 ( an increase in price see 2 ) at a London auction. FACT 4: On 07/12/06 a first edition copy of Casino Royale was sold for £6,240 ( a drop in price see 4 ) at a London auction. FACT 5: On 13/12/01 an Edinburgh charity shop received a windfall of more than £5,000 after the London auction of a 1954 first edition of a James Bond book. The rare copy of Live And Let Die had been handed in anonymously to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund shop with a number of other books in a plastic bag. "It was just lying with a pile of books and we go through them all to check for anything special," said volunteer John Fyfe, who spotted that it may be worth than the shop's normal top price of £30. It was sold to an anonymous buyer for £ 5,287 at Sotheby's. FACT 6: On 09/03/01 a first edition copy of Casino Royale was sold for £11,400 at a Swindon auction. FACT 7: On 25/11/99 a complete set of first edition Ian Fleming James Bond books with their original dust jackets were sold for a record £13,800 at a London auction. |
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