Holiday Gifts 2020

20 Holiday Gifts December 2020 “Early In The Spring Of 1750, In The Village Of Juffure, A Manchild Was Born…” 47. HALEY, Alex. Roots. Garden City, 1976. Thick octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $950. Click for more info First trade edition of Haley’s acclaimed historical novel, warmly inscribed in the year of publication: “October 1, 1976. B—, my colleague, Kunta’s family wishes the very best to you and your family—Sincerely, Alex Haley.” Book fine, dust jacket about-fine. “And All This Because Of A Man Called Bond…” 46. FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London, 1966. Octavo, original brown paper boards, dust jacket. $450. Click for more info First edition of the James Bond short stories “Octopussy” (in which a Fabergé egg holds the key to a nuclear attack on a U.S. Air Force base) and “The Living Daylights” (in which 007 must organize the defection of a Soviet general). Trace of foxing to dust jacket. Fine. “A Naked Arm Smelling Of Chanel No. 5 Snaked Round His Neck…” 45. FLEMING, Ian. The Man With the Golden Gun. London, 1965. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $1500. Click for more info First edition of Fleming’s final Bond novel, published the year after the author’s death, in which 007 travels to Fleming’s beloved Jamaica to neutralize the assassin of the book’s title. Dust jacket price-clipped. Fine. L i t e r a t u r e