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  • ColonelAdamskiColonelAdamski UK
    edited September 19 Posts: 1,068
    MaxCasino wrote: »
    There are other ways that IFP should be trying to keep the fans happy.

    I can understand the frustration.

    I am, however, going to wave a scrap of the IFP flag here. They've put out some very nice limited edition collectables for not much money at all in recent years. I'm thinking of the Higson signed special edition paperback for a tenner, and the signed Sherwood second book with the little extras for the price of the standard book. They even put out a smart paperback of Benson's Zero Minus Ten for a tenner a year or so ago.

    I can understand that people want more new literary Bond adventures, (as do I), but I think we should also recognise that IFP haven't tried to milk the literary Bond fans when it comes to collectable editions. In that respect, good for them.

    Two days ago I ordered a hardback Casino Royale off IFP for £24.00. I think there's only 250 being printed. How much was that recent Folio limited CR edition? Five hundred quid or summat?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited September 20 Posts: 18,239
    Yes, IFP are generally a lot more reasonable with their prices than Eon's infamous 007 Store products are. They're seemingly only designed for the very richest of Bond fans to purchase (if they'd even want to purchase some of it!). Sometimes there are benefits to the IFP literary Bond being the poor relation to the Eon Bond film series. :)
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
    Posts: 4,557
    https://www.jamesbondfirsteditions.co.uk/post/do-ian-fleming-book-collectors-badly-need-a-new-film-too

    A decent article about the recent Bond book publishing and re-publishing. They don't use many of the continuation novels, is my only criticism of the article.

    Also, do we think we'll get an announcement of some kind for James Bond Day (October 5)?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,239
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited September 26 Posts: 16,211
    Publication delayed a little, but with a nice preview of the full LALD design:



    I think the endpapers design is really cool.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    Posts: 17,712
    Have they released images of the back and endpapers of all the novels, or just CR and LALD?
  • moneyofpropre2moneyofpropre2 France
    edited October 19 Posts: 859
    So, are they censored text or not? What is the title of LALD chapter 5?
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited October 21 Posts: 2,914
    moneyofpropre2 wrote: »
    So, are they censored text or not? What is the title of LALD chapter 5?

    From what I've read elsewhere, these are the recently censored texts, so the text of the LALD is the old American one. The bonus material consists of letters by Fleming. Most have appeared in The Man With the Golden Typewriter, but a few are being published for the first time, though exactly which ones is still a mystery.

    EDIT: Eight titles contained letters that previously appeared in Typewriter:

    CR : 03/04/59, FA Taylor
    LALD : 01/04/54, Winston Churchill
    MR : 18/08/59, Major VP Tallon
    DAF : 08/11/57, Miss M Marshall
    FRWL : 09/07/56, Daniel George
    DN : 14/10/58, W Speid
    FYEO : 25/06/59, Miss Noella Moneypenny
    OHMSS : 31/07/62, Michael Howard

    As for the letters and other bonus material in the remaining 6 titles:

    GF : 28/12/59, William Birnie (re: golf)
    TB : The Domino Letter, originally published letter in the Pan paperback.
    TSWLM: 18/04/62, Florence Taylor and 29/05/62, Kenneth Robinson. Both refer to criticism of the book,
    YOLT: A one-page note detailing Fleming’s travel research for the novel, with thanks to friends and a short bibliography.
    TMWTGG : 19/07/61. Answers to the "Six Questions" feature in Queen Magazine (you can read it here).
    OP : 31/10/61, Captain EK Le Mesurier of the NRA (National Rifle Association), regarding weapons used in TLD.

    I'd say the TSWLM extras sound most interesting, given how wounded Fleming was by the book's reception and how he tried to defend it.

    In more interesting literary news, Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming will be made available as a mass market edition on May 25, 2025. For more than a decade it was only available as an extra to the very expensive collected edition of Fleming's works from Queen Anne Press. A few copies were offered via QAP for purchase last year, but the new edition will be affordable and available to everyone.
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