JOHN GARDNER. — Licence Renewed. A James Bond novel. (SIGNED)

Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author by way of a homemade title-specific bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 270pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Mon Mohan from a Richard Chopping watercolour. The first of the author's series of James Bond continuation novels., Near Fine, Near Fine