Scarne on cards

Peppermill

Walking around in my local second hand bookstore I came across the book Scarne on Cards. This book is used by Bond in the novel Moonraker before the bridge game at Blades. Does any of you have some more obscure memorabilia like this? I’m still looking for the German book Bond reads in TLD.

Donald Grant

Peppermill wrote:

Walking around in my local second hand bookstore I came across the book Scarne on Cards. This book is used by Bond in the novel Moonraker before the bridge game at Blades. Does any of you have some more obscure memorabilia like this? I’m still looking for the German book Bond reads in TLD.

Yes, I have a hard cover a copy of Scarne on Cards. Although it does not have a dust jacket. They seem to be hard to come by. Scarne on Card Tricks seems to be the far more common tome. There used to be a web sight devoted to all the places that Bond appeared in print and it included Bond's book shelf. I have always wanted to collect Bond's bookshelf. Items like The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler read by Bond on the Orient Express in FRWL. The Bible to be Read as Literature where Bond hides his gun, The Craft of Intelligence by Allen Dulles, Profiles in Courage by JFK, etc.

I do have a Chemex coffee maker and a Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife by Wilkinson. All from literary Bond world.



DG

Bond Collectors' Weekends

What German book in The Living Daylights?

I have a copy of the Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature--and the other side of the jacket is you-know-what.

Peppermill

Although they are neighbours, my German isn't very good. But I believe the book is called Verderbt, Verdammt, Verraten. He reads it while in Berlin.

Thomo

I have a copy of Scarne on Cards - hardback but not sure of the year, it's in my "to read" pile at the moment

Donald Grant

Bond Collectors' Weekends wrote:

What German book in The Living Daylights?

I have a copy of the Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature--and the other side of the jacket is you-know-what.

Ah yes, The Book of Bond..., by Col. William "Bill" Tanner (Kingsly Amis). Another very collectible tome.

DG

Voituer

I have Scarne on cards through my love of games, not Bond. the Moonraker connection had missed me altogether! I think I got mine in 1993, second hand and luckily with DJ 50p at my local used bookshop, very good book as it lists long lost card games and rules.

Bond Collectors' Weekends

Well, Bond had nothing to do while he waited for that sniper. But whoever she was, he must have scared the living daylights out of her. Watch the birdie, you baaaaastaard.