Your Bond Collection

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• jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator

  January 2017 Posts: 10,591

  timmer wrote: »

  BondJasonBond006 wrote: »

  

  This is must buy! I love the look of that little assemblage of product!

  @timmer From my understanding you're a fellow Torontonian? These can be bought at any Shoppers Drug Mart. Pretty top notch quality, if you ask me.
  
  Anyway, here is my incomplete collection:
  
  
• Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl

  January 2017 Posts: 3,176

  What would I do to entertain myself without charity shops? And what in God's name do you suppose is on this 1997 educational CD-ROM, which was 'mailed free of charge to UK secondary schools' and is 'intended to be used by students of Media Studies at GCSE'? Yeah, great, turn them all into tiny Elliot Carvers, why don'tcha?
  
  
  
  This Diamonds Are Forever mug, though, is coming to the office with me.
  
  
• JET007

  January 2017 Posts: 632

  gt007 wrote: »

  I was at a book fair recently and found a few gems for my collection.
  
  First of all, a couple of novelisations. I've never read any of the novelisations, so finding a couple of nice first editions for 2£ each was lovely.
  
  
  Next up, a couple of continuation paperbacks. Again, never read those two, or in fact any of the continuation novels apart from two.
  
  
  A first edition hardcover of Gardner's Licence Renewed.
  
  
  And finally, the crown jewels. A first edition hardcover of The Man With The Golden Gun!
  
  
  I was already very happy with my findings, but a first edition Fleming sent me in heaven! Never thought I'd own one! It was quite expensive for a book, but to be honest I'd have thought a first edition Fleming would be much more expensive.

  
  Very nice! It's been a while, but I really enjoyed HTTK and Doubleshot when they came out. Now you just need to find Never Dream of Dying to wrap up the whole Union trilogy!
  
• CrzChris4

  January 2017 edited January 2017 Posts: 463

  These images make me want to to dig out my collection.
  
  
  
  
  
• timmer

  January 2017 Posts: 4,622

  jake24 wrote: »

  timmer wrote: »

  BondJasonBond006 wrote: »

  

  This is must buy! I love the look of that little assemblage of product!

  @timmer From my understanding you're a fellow Torontonian? These can be bought at any Shoppers Drug Mart. Pretty top notch quality, if you ask me.
  
  Anyway, here is my incomplete collection:
  
  

  Thanks . I have not seen these 007 products in Shoppers, but I will have a further look.
  Cheer!
  
• CrzChris4

  January 2017 edited January 2017 Posts: 463

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The cool thing about those VHS tapes is that the majority are still shrink wrapped and sealed. Picked them up for five bucks at a garage sale last summer. Lana Wood's autograph I won off of a Bond site a long time ago. Probably the most interesting thing in my collection.
• Mallory

  January 2017 Posts: 2,165

  A few of the magazines I have collected. I have a lot more.
  
  
  
  
• Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl

  January 2017 Posts: 3,176

  Really nice theme for a collection!
• Mallory

  January 2017 Posts: 2,165

  Been through the collection, about 90% of my Bond collection.
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• Crazysoul95

  January 2017 Posts: 3,336

  Very nice collection Mallory!
• timmer

  January 2017 Posts: 4,622

  Love those photos @mallory! Recognize a lot of stuff from my own collection, plus lots of neat stuff, I'd like to get.
  
  Question: Everything Or Nothing is available only on DVD correct? No blu-ray release?
• Mallory

  January 2017 Posts: 2,165

  timmer wrote: »

  Love those photos @mallory! Recognize a lot of stuff from my own collection, plus lots of neat stuff, I'd like to get.
  
  Question: Everything Or Nothing is available only on DVD correct? No blu-ray release?

  
  I have never seen a blu ray version of it. I have an HD recording for ITV1 HD and it looks really nice in HD.
• shamanimal

  January 2017 Posts: 623

  Here's my 007 novel collection. The top shelf is Pan 50's and 60's paperbacks, and hardback book club editions. The next is first editions, (only three of the six pictured are firsts, the other three are second or third impressions), and the large format paperbacks from about 15 years ago. Then it's the 1998 centenary hardbacks, then a selection of continuation novels.
  
  
• Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl

  January 2017 Posts: 3,176

  Lovely collection, and nicely displayed! I really dig the '60s Pans (I need to upgrade a few of mine, since they're held together with sellotape).
• yogi1

  January 2017 Posts: 94

  
  
  Latest addition to my Bond collection.
• chrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm

  February 2017 Posts: 17,795

  In an effort to save space the other day I purchased three Case Logic disc storage binders and loaded all my movies into them & took the plastic cases (four huge garbage bags full) to the recycling bin. Of course Bond gets its own section. I'll miss the cool covers, but wow suddenly 500 movies all fit in basically 1 square foot of space.
  
• Major_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus

  February 2017 Posts: 2,722

  shamanimal wrote: »

  Here's my 007 novel collection. The top shelf is Pan 50's and 60's paperbacks, and hardback book club editions. The next is first editions, (only three of the six pictured are firsts, the other three are second or third impressions), and the large format paperbacks from about 15 years ago. Then it's the 1998 centenary hardbacks, then a selection of continuation novels.
  
  

  
  Loving the display. This is how I'd like to set my bookshelf up - but need to work on getting a decent bookshelf! The pan editions are still my favourite way to read Fleming. I remember finding them when I was a kid for cheap in second hand book stores.
• Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl

  February 2017 Posts: 3,176

  First one I ever got hold of, that started this madness, was Dr No with the Connery cover, which cost me 10p from the charity bookshelf at the Happy Shopper up the road. Still feels wrong to read Fleming without ruining my eyes on yellow pages and awful print.
• fire_and_ice

  February 2017 edited February 2017 Posts: 6,432

  Sorting through some old stuff need a clear out and found these in a box...
  
  
  
  A few more items covered in dust...
  
  
  
  This I remember buying decades ago, nearly fell apart in my hand...
  
  
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  February 2017 Posts: 9,030

  I must admit I'm not much of an all-things-Bond collector. I'm happy with a complete set of the Fleming novels as paperbacks and the movies in their best currently available viewing quality, i.e. Blu-ray (for which I've literally dumped my VHS tapes and gave away my DVDs). But one thing I also couldn't resist buying from an antiquarian bookseller:
  
• fire_and_ice

  February 2017 Posts: 6,432

  Alas I had quiet a collection though in my twenties I stopped collecting and gave away hundreds of books, vinyls and tapes. I had several versions of all the Fleming books, being a antique dealer at the time had many benefits came across some excellent items. I very much regret discarding so much stuff, though prioritys change now and then.
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  February 2017 Posts: 9,030

  I also forgot to mention the entire soundtracks, minus SPECTRE so far, on CD. And I just found the following, a 2002 magazine special by German weekly STERN. It came out for the 40th Movie Bond Anniversary shortly before dismal DAD was released over here and contains a 40-page spread of the film history until then ("How He's Been Saving the World for 40 Years").
  
• Some_Kind_Of_Hero

  February 2017 Posts: 6,844

  Do you have the Michael Gillette illustrated German translations of the Flemings, @j_w_pepper? I just ordered one. I studied German in school and occasionally brush up on some vocabulary, and thought what better or more enjoyable way to get back in it than to compare a full Fleming in German to its English counterpart.
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  February 2017 Posts: 9,030

  Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: »

  Do you have the Michael Gillette illustrated German translations of the Flemings, @j_w_pepper?

  I'm afraid not, Hero. But then I've made the decision for myself to read English/American novels only in their original language. Wish I could say the same about other foreign books, but that is much more of a challenge. Translations may be a respectable work of their own but always lose a lot from the original.
  
  Same actually goes for dubbed movies, of course, but untilt the advent of DVD it was nearly unavoidable to watch foreign movies in their German version only over here. Everything is dubbed, there are extremely few movie theatres showing original versions, and don't expect anything like that on TV, of all places, at least not until very recently.
  
  So I think the first Bond movies I ever saw in their original version were GOLDFINGER and GOLDENEYE, on British VHS tapes, in 1996. First one in English as a first-run at a theatre was, IIRC, CR in 2006. Or maybe DAD, actually, but I tend to forget about that one due to my brain's self-defence mechanism.
  
• Some_Kind_Of_Hero

  February 2017 Posts: 6,844

  Whoa, that must have been some revelation viewing the Bonds with their original voice performances for the first time. I've never been a fan of dubbing either. Like you, I always seek out and watch foreign films in their original languages. See the film as the filmmakers intended I say.
• 007ClassicBondFan

  February 2017 Posts: 2,266

  Wondering if I'm the only one who owns not only the Blu Ray set, but the SE DVD, and 1996 VHS collectors set (couldn't resist buying it to be a completist). Anybody else have the James Bond omnibus from Titan Books also?
• Some_Kind_Of_Hero

  February 2017 Posts: 6,844

  I own the 50th anniversary Blu Ray set, the four UE DVD boxes, and an almost complete 90s VHS collection (only missing five of 'em, but that's fine by me). Got the Titan omnibus, too. I'll have to read through those at some point.