JOHN GARDNER. — Scorpius. A James Bond novel. (SIGNED)

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. 190pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Edges spotted, and with just a trace of further spotting to the free endpapers and to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The seventh of the author's series of James Bond continuation novels, and the first to be published exclusively by Hodder & Stoughton (the previous six volumes were co-published by Jonathan Cape)., Very Good, Near Fine