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  • MrBrownMrBrown
    Posts: 202
    This arrived in the mail today:
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    :)
  • Goldeneye95Goldeneye95
    Posts: 546
    I have Casino Royale & Live And Let Die. I'm going to purchase the rest of Ian Fleming's Bond novels on pay day.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?
  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 6,021
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?

    They are quick recaps of the short stories inside the book:

    "How the Cuban was rubbed out in Vermont": For Your Eyes Only

    "How SMERSH got into SHAPE": From a View to a Kill

    "Death in the Seychelles": The Hildebrandt Rarity

    "Drugs in Venice": Risico

    "Love and Hate in Bermuda": Quantum of Solace
  • YtterbiumYtterbium
    edited September 2013 Posts: 269
    Hi there !

    I have a question. A few years ago, I started my collection of the Fleming Novels (I am French and wanted to start reading the original stuff). I bought about half of them in the 2010 Penguin edition with the nice Micheal Gillette's covers.
    Now I am trying to complete this collection, but I can't seem to find the 2010 edition anymore.

    Would you have any tips about where I could buy these books. I'd hate to have my Fleming collection with 2 different editions...
  • Villiers53Villiers53
    Posts: 802
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?

    Great cover and what I find particularly interesting is the 007 logo.
    Although 'The Saint' and 'The Toff' novels preceded the Bond novels with their use of logos it is certainly true to say that Fleming's PAN editions were one of the first to use this mechanic and it had a huge impact on book racks at the time.
    One thing I could never understand was the use of a Luger as opposed to a Beretta or a Walther in the logo.
  • BentleyBentley
    Posts: 267
    MrBrown wrote:
    The Fleming novels have many, many interesting editions.

    I own the Penguin 2006 releases (with those ugly covers). This was my first set. I also have all of the Signet editions from the 60s. I'm now starting to collect the Pan editions from the 50s and 60s. They've got some gorgeous cover art. I only own GOLDFINGER right now.

    My ultimate goal is to get a 1st edition, hardcover copy of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (published by Cape).

    Here are a couple of photos that I've taken:
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    signetbond01.png

    Anyone else here collecting Bond novels?

    Your GOLDFINGER PAN cover is very interesting. I've always thought that the image of Bond in the background looked very like Ian Fleming. I wonder who influenced who?
  • BentleyBentley
    Posts: 267
    Villiers53 wrote:
    I have a beautiful set of the leather bound,gold leaf, Easton Press collector's edition that feature the JC first edition cover artwork inside.
    Evidently they did two runs and they now sell for silly money on e-bay.
    Won't be parting with mine - I love them to bits.

    I've just bought a set of these beauties. I won't embarrass myself by saying how much I payed but suffice to say @Villiers53, you have done very, very well!

  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
    edited September 2013 Posts: 2,402
    I don't have them all - though I've read them all - but my set is mismatched. I have YOLT and TMWTGG and I think FYEO and OP/TLD in Penguin, but then I have FRWL, LALD, MR, and OHMSS in these editions that come with very stylish covers. I don't remember the edition name but FRWL's design is a head of hair (I think), LALD is fire, MR is black save for a single laserbeam across the cover, and OHMSS has this very cool black/blue design. Anyone know what edition these are?

    EDIT: Found this cover for my Moonraker, apparently they're by Penguin as well. Here's the cover, now that I look at it it looks like a horizon rather than a laserbeam:

    http://www.bondpix.com/shop/avactis-images/BK_MR_a.jpg
  • BentleyBentley
    Posts: 267
    Villiers53 wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?

    Great cover and what I find particularly interesting is the 007 logo.
    Although 'The Saint' and 'The Toff' novels preceded the Bond novels with their use of logos it is certainly true to say that Fleming's PAN editions were one of the first to use this mechanic and it had a huge impact on book racks at the time.
    One thing I could never understand was the use of a Luger as opposed to a Beretta or a Walther in the logo.

    Funny you mention the Luger - it's been bugging me for years.
    Fleming was very specific about guns and a Luger was way too heavy to be a concealment weapon. How PAN chose it for the logo is a mystery. If anybody out there knows - please enlighten us!
  • LicencedToKilt69007LicencedToKilt69007 Belgium, Wallonia
    edited September 2013 Posts: 523
    I own CR, LALD, Moonraker, DAF, FRWL and Dr. No; all in one same book, which the picture is one of Timothy Dalton firing in a golden gunbarrel.

    I'm going to have the rest ASAP

    Robert Laffont Editions (in my mothertongue, French)
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    Posts: 7,653
    Just Got my TSWLM Jonathan Cape hardcover with dustjacket 6th impression March 1964 which sits next to OHMSS which is a similar book only the 7th impression by JC.
    Both recent additions to the collection.
  • BentleyBentley
    Posts: 267
    SaintMark wrote:
    Just Got my TSWLM Jonathan Cape hardcover with dustjacket 6th impression March 1964 which sits next to OHMSS which is a similar book only the 7th impression by JC.
    Both recent additions to the collection.

    Congratulations. For different reasons I think these two editions have very interesting art.
    TSWLM because the cover is just fabulous with the rose and Fairbanks dagger (shame about the book).
    OHMSS because Chopping broke his code of juxtopositioning items of danger & death with items of beauty. His portrait of a hand sketching a coat of arms is more reminiscent of a biography than a thriller albeit what lay inside is the second best Bond book and one of the greatest thrillers of all time - go figure!
  • Villiers53Villiers53
    Posts: 802
    Bentley wrote:
    Villiers53 wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    MrBrown wrote:
    This arrived in the mail today:
    fyeo.png

    :)
    What are the other titles below on the back cover under "Ian Fleming presents"?

    Great cover and what I find particularly interesting is the 007 logo.
    Although 'The Saint' and 'The Toff' novels preceded the Bond novels with their use of logos it is certainly true to say that Fleming's PAN editions were one of the first to use this mechanic and it had a huge impact on book racks at the time.
    One thing I could never understand was the use of a Luger as opposed to a Beretta or a Walther in the logo.

    Funny you mention the Luger - it's been bugging me for years.
    Fleming was very specific about guns and a Luger was way too heavy to be a concealment weapon. How PAN chose it for the logo is a mystery. If anybody out there knows - please enlighten us!

    Just a thought about the logo - this design was pre- Dr.No the movie and the most recognised Walther prior to the M insisting that Bond (Connery) abandon his Berreta in favour of the PPK was the P38. This model has a similar outline to a Luger - maybe that was the model that PAN mistakenly took for the logo? I'd love to know.

  • MrBrownMrBrown
    edited February 2014 Posts: 202
    I received the PAN editions of CASINO ROYALE and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE on Santa's birthday, er, Christmas. I've wanted that edition of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE since having the avatar on Mi6 1.0.

    I'll post some updated pictures soon of my collection.

    @Villiers53 Interesting thoughts on the PAN 007 logo. Maybe that fellow at Illustrated 007 would know something about it.
  • GermanladyGermanlady
    Posts: 6,601
    Whatever that means.

    Matthew Shaw ‏@RealShaw 27m

    Sat in the Dorchester hotel for breakfast this morning - some kind of launch going on for new James Bond novel. No sign of Daniel Craig yet
  • 007InVT007InVT Classified
    edited February 2014 Posts: 893
    If you love different editions, some of you should submit a field report to this site; especially -

    SaintMark
    StirredNotShaken
    Ytterbium
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7
    MajorDSmythe
    thenoisydrum
    timmer
    MrBrown
    dchantry
    Gerard
    Lancaster007

    http://literary007.com/contact/submit-a-field-report/
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
    edited March 2014 Posts: 3,566
    Not so very long ago I was perfectly satisfied with my accumulation of Signet Bond paperbacks from the '60s -- but that was before I saw the photos of those gorgeous Penguin centenary editions. Now nothing will satisfy me but to have a complete collection of Penguin's colorful little beauties...American editions, of course. The slightly oversized format just blows me away! Within the space of a few months, I've managed to find 10 of them at used bookstores in the Berkeley CA area. I currently need only FRWL, TSWLM, TMWTGG and OP/TLD. Interestingly, I've found a Penguin website that shows 2 different covers for the final title, one with an OP design and another with a TLD illustration. Can someone explain this little curiosity to me?
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
    Posts: 3,566
    Just managed to find FRWL -- only 3 left to go!
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,680
    Here is my Fleming novel collection- the 2008 Penguin centenary edition (100 years since Fleming's birth); 4 Pan novels I found at the markets; and LALD by the Reprint Society London.

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  • ohfilms1ohfilms1
    Posts: 112
    This is ONLY my copies of Casino Royale... My entire collection would take a lot of time to scan.
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    :)
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,999
    ohfilms1 wrote:
    This is ONLY my copies of Casino Royale... My entire collection would take a lot of time to scan.
    crcopys_zps0ffdb7b1.png
    :)

    There's a few editions there which I don't have. What edition is the first book in the top row? It's a hardback, but not, I think, a UK Hardback.
  • ohfilms1ohfilms1
    edited February 2014 Posts: 112
    MajorDSmythe wrote:
    ohfilms1 wrote:
    This is ONLY my copies of Casino Royale... My entire collection would take a lot of time to scan.
    crcopys_zps0ffdb7b1.png
    :)

    There's a few editions there which I don't have. What edition is the first book in the top row? It's a hardback, but not, I think, a UK Hardback.

    Looking through that edition and all I have is...
    -Hardcover with battered dust jacket
    -It's a book club edition
    -the publisher is The Macmillian Company, New York
    -Printed in the USA
    -Unknown year when it was published
    -I have the same kind of edition for Thunderball and You Only Live Twice
    *UPDATE* This edition was released in 1954 or 1965... still unsure
  • ChevronChevron Northern Ireland
    Posts: 370
    I have a question about the 2008 Michael Gillette editions from penguin. I have 12 of the hardcovers and I was looking into getting the other two I need to complete the set.

    But I've noticed the prices from secondary sellers on sites like amazon have gone sky high. For example the copies of Goldfinger currently listed on amazon UK are between £85 and £130.

    So are these books mega rare? Is it because the had a small print run? (I don't know if they did or not.) Are they actually worth this kind of money?
  • SharkBaitSharkBait
    Posts: 2,107
    I only own the first two Fleming novels, Casino Royale, the one that came during the movie's marketing campaign and Live and Let Die, one with a cover from the film. I think it's from the 70's.

    Also own John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 and Roger Moore's My Word Is my Bond.
  • Alan007Alan007
    Posts: 406
    I have the penguin fleming novels and some of the continuation novels. Would love atleast one first edition Fleming though
  • fromswedenwithlovefromswedenwithlove
    Posts: 654
    I have CR, FRWL, TB, FYEO, DAF and Dr.No. I´m going to buy Goldfinger and Live And Let Die tomorrow.
  • JamesBondBlogJamesBondBlog
    Posts: 19
    I have a first edition of Octopussy and the Living Daylights - 1st edition/1st Impression. I've got a 1st edition/3rd impression of OHMSS and a 1st edition/2nd impression of YOLT. I first got started on the series on the Signet paperbacks of the 60's, which I found in my great-grandfather's garage in the 1980's. I still have them.

    I really like those 2008 Penguin centenary editions. They're colorful and fresh. Some of the Pan paperbacks over the years have had some really interesting covers as well, I always enjoy covers that I think can add something to my view of the book or the character of Bond. All in all, I've got at least three copies of each Fleming novel, in various forms and releases, and at least one of each of the continuation novels, most of them from the time they were first released.

    FlemingsBond.com
  • 007InVT007InVT Classified
    edited March 2014 Posts: 893
    Does anyone have the Anthony Burgess introduction?

    There is also a version with a Christopher Hitchens intro (Omnibus) and Andrew Taylor (Vintage)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,011
    @QBranch, where did you get the Complete Penguin Collection and for how much? I only own a few of them and really want to round out the rest of the collection with the same prints.
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