For Special Services [James Bond Series] Gardner, John (1926-2007) James Bond 007

[Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, publisher's copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.254; [1], afterword; [1], blank. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-jacket with no price to the front flap - copies without a printed price were intended for export. No inscriptions, contents clean. A fine copy in a crisp, fine wrapper. Superb condition. An original novel starring James Bond, and the second from author John Gardner, written under copyright of Glidrose (Ian Fleming) Publications Ltd. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Otto Penzler, purchased by ourselves at Swann Auctions in 2010 (lot slip included), with a pencil note to that effect signed by his bookseller friend and colleague Jon Gilbert. Penzler's Mysterious Press published John Gardner's 1984 novel The Garden of Weapons. A nice association. Haining; Crime Fiction p.208. Benson, Raymond; Bond Companion (1984). BMC No.1 [1984,] pp.4-13 'James Bond Revivals'. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. GIlbert, p.613.