COMPLETE SET OF ALL 14 IAN FLEMING (or IAN FLEMING RELATED) JAMES BOND BOOK CLUB HARDCOVERS PUBLISHED BY (SEVERAL) UK BOOK CLUB PUBLISHERS STARTING IN 1956 UNTIL 1968: LIVE AND LET DIE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, DOCTOR NO, GOLDFINGER, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, THUNDERBALL, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (the other 3 James Bond books - Casino Royale, Moonraker, and Octopussy were never published by a UK BC), plus CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (not published in a dust jacket), COLONEL SUN (by Robert Markham - deluxe edition with leather boards), and THE LIFE OF IAN FLEMING (by John Pearson - deluxe edition with leather boards), published by The Reprint Society, Thriller Book Club, The Book Club, Book Club Associates, and The Companion Book Club - all in association with Jonathan Cape per DJ front flaps, white or brown or map illustrated endpapers, various colored boards with black or gold gilt lettering to spines. SHOP AND COMPARE - A SET OF JUST 11 OF THESE BOOKS JUST SOLD WITH OVERSEAS SHIPPING COSTS FOR $677 - SEE EBAY 395180522001 AND A ANOTHER SET OF 11 OF THESE BOOKS IS LISTED FOR SALE WITH OVERSEAS SHIPPING FOR $1,300 - SEE EBAY 116113280664 AND FOR $1027 - SEE EBAY 156144248658 Books are generally in very nice condition - vast majority of the books appear unread without creased page corners, no missing pages or endpapers, no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps inside, slight foxing/dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges on a few books, no soiling or staining to boards (faint foxing to boards on LALD & to spine on DAF), sun darkening to spine on TSWLM & sun darkening to boards on Chitty, just a couple of books have a bumped board corner. Original Dust Jackets: small chip at top of spine on Diamonds & Dr. No, large area of loss to top portion of front flap on YOLT otherwise no significant chipping/tearing/creasing to dust jackets, a few of dust jackets have wear to spine tips and/or a bit of edge wear, no significant sun fading/darkening to DJ spines (LALD has slight spine sun darkening), scotch tape residue (tape long since fallen off) marks to spine on FRWL & to rear panel on FYEO otherwise no soiling or staining of note to DJs, tiny color lift spot to cover on LALD otherwise a few DJs have occasional tiny color rubbing spots or foxing to white rear panels. Overall a nice VG to N-FINE books in VG- to N-FINE dust jackets of a very difficult to find Ian Fleming James Bond complete 1950s and 1960s UK book club hardcovers. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for auction on ebay - just click on the 'see other items' link to the right of the picture.
NOTE - MEDIA MAIL ROUTINELY TAKES 3-4 WEEKS (REGARDLESS OF WHAT EBAY MAY SAY - THEY DON'T CONTROL THE POST OFFICE). For U.S. buyers, both priority mail (3-5 days) and media mail (3-4 weeks) shipping options will be listed in the ebay invoice (or if the book is a paperback or small magazine both 1st class mail (5-7 days) and media mail shipping options will be listed in the ebay invoice) - SIMPLY CLICK ON THE BLUE 'OTHER SHIPPING OPTIONS' LINK IN THE INVOICE TO SEE BOTH SHIPPING OPTIONS/COST.
As for returns -All items are used (not new) books and therefore are sold as-is, which is why I try to provide a fairly detailed description of the item itself (i.e. what it is and what it is not) as well its specific condition, noting any significant defects (for collectible items). Book grades are provided in the posting, however book grading standards/categories very widely from seller to seller, so please do not rely solely on the grade that I have given a book or ebay's provided "condition" box description, without considering the specific condition/defects described for that particular book. I do, on occasion, miss a significant defect in an item or simply make a cut/paste error in the description (i.e. an error in the description from using a prior posting as the "shell" for this book's description), and for collectible items, if that happens, on a case-by-case basis I do issue a full refund (including the cost of return shipping) depending upon the collectible significance of the undisclosed defects.
DELIVERY CONFIRMATION IS NOT TRACKING (despite what ebay and paypal want to call it - again they don't control the U.S. post office). Delivery confirmation is merely what it says it is - it confirms delivery to prevent fraudulent chargebacks of claimed unreceived items (which is why I don't charge for delivery confirmation in the shipping costs). Also, since I print shipping labels from home (as opposed to purchasing shipping at the post office), the delivery confirmation number IS NOT SCANNED BY THE POST OFFICE AT THIS END. Therefore, in most cases, the first time that the Post Office will show anything when you check the delivery confirmation number is when the package hits your local post office/sorting center (basically the day before its delivered to you). Occasionally (about 25% of the time) a package will get scanned at the Federal Way, WA transfer station, but in the vast majority of the cases the delivery confirmation won't show anything until basically the day before you get the package. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS WON (if you would like estimates of what combined shipping costs might be for a certain group of auctions, please e-mail me before the auctions close but a very rough estimate is $.50-$1.00 per additional book for media mail, $1.00-$2.00 per additional book for priority mail, and $6.00-$7.00 per additional book for international mail).
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