Secondhand paperback/hardback finds
Bleuville
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At my local secondhand bookshop I found a U.S. Berkley paperback of Thunderball c.1987.
Also a Bookclub hardback of YOLT C.1964 with dustjacket of Japanese castle with Blofeld and Bunt.
Have over 150 paperbacks from various cover series of the books.
I tick them off on a printed pages of the Pizgloria site cover pictures.
Bleuville.
Also a Bookclub hardback of YOLT C.1964 with dustjacket of Japanese castle with Blofeld and Bunt.
Have over 150 paperbacks from various cover series of the books.
I tick them off on a printed pages of the Pizgloria site cover pictures.
Bleuville.
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Second hand Bond books is by far my favourite area of Bond collecting. I think I currently have about 140 books in my collection. I am specifically interested in the earlier Pan Paperbacks (ie 1960s and earlier, although the earliest edition I have currently is the 1960 edition of Moonraker. I don't have any of the 1950s ones). This obsession with collecting various different editions of the same book baffles many of my friends and relatives!
Yes the tricky bit is finding the bookshops , as new books get sold on the Internet with Amazon etc.
I fear that the old book shops may disappear over time. I always buy my new books in a physical book shop
like Waterstones or WH Smith. With the 2nd hand Bond novels I don't mind worn books (i.e.-I'm not after mint condition.).
but it's pot luck as to what you find. Oxfam charity shops sometimes have some.
Websites that show the covers are - pizgloria.com and collecting-fleming.com
I have printed pages from pizgloria site to use as a checklist of what I've got.
I see on the mi6-hq Bond news site they show the American version of Trigger Mortis.
The story is set in 1957 but on the cover is a drawing of a DB5 which came out in 1963. A bit early for that.
Bleuville.
I remember buying that particular Berkeley paperback of TB, "first hand," lol! The silhouette cover art was instrumental in my purchasing decision.
This morning I found a nice 1959 Pan paperback of Casino Royale. A very pleasing addition to my collection of early PBs.
On the weekend I visited Devizes in Wiltshire, looking for books, and found a small shop that had
a couple of secondhand Bond books. One was the 1999 smaller version of The James Bond Girls
and the other was an all German text book on TNDies called "Der Morgen Stirbt nie" by Springer and Lardon mediencontor.
Colour pics from the film in landscape hardback format.
If only I could read German ! I checked with my friend later, and Yes he already had it. Can't catch him out!
Bleuville. "Im Geheim Dienst Ihr Majestat" (another favourite (German) film!)
I got 2 more Coronet paperbacks from 1989 in as-new condition.(27 years old).(from an Oxfam charity shop.)
Thunderball (with embossed title) and Dr.No -which is the 2nd illustration of a woman's hand holding a knife.
Turns out this is a bit rarer than the usual spider picture and only appears on the 9th paperback edition. (lucky me.)
The title lettering is flat-not embossed. (see thebookbond.com website.)
Bleuville.
I have no idea what it's worth but it doesn't matter.
Bond: “I must be dreaming.”
Yesterday I came across very nice first editions of Role of Honour and Nobody Lives Forever being sold nice and cheap. Obviously I snapped them up quicker than old Albert when he bit off Tee Hee's arm.
I also got a good condition Coronet paperback of SeaFire to replace the faded, tatty copy that I have in my collection.
* not to be confused with FFS, my reaction on reading "Cold".
They look like really nice copies...I'm with you - I do prefer that style of cover...when I was married my (then) wife painted those book covers for me...they looked stunning when framed up -{
I couldn't agree more -{
I couldn't agree more
Any pictures of those paintings, Sir Miles? What a neat idea!
Unfortunately not...I don't have them anymore
I had about six paintings at least and even one in needlepoint...they were/are fabulous -{
My goodness! It certainly is! I'd love to get that edition at a reasonable price. Well done. -{
First editions??
My go-to Fleming Bond set has always been the Raymond Hawkey-designed set from the 1960's, but these are lovely and collectors can also put together a matched set with the contemporaneous edition of John Pearson's James Bond Authorised Biography.
Plus a couple of nice examples of the Pan 'Yellow 007' covers from the early 60's
Here's a picture of the cover: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780586045961?cm_sp=rec-_-vhr_1-_-plp&reftag=vhr_1
There was no such version for Live and Let Die, because that series came out at the same time as the film, so there was a film tie-in edition instead.
And the 1960s PAN artwork for Colonel Sun seemed to remain in print, because it was still the one being sold new in the late 1970s.
the BookBond blog has the front covers for all the messy desk editions posted, and if you check the comments, someone called WearySloth created a fan-art version of the missing Live and Let Die … unfortunately that link seems to be dead, but I did save the *.jpg to my harddrive when it was available and can email it to you as an attachment if interested.
It was just the front cover, no wraparound image which all the real books did have
speaking of which, are the complete wraparound images posted anywhere on line? most sources, like the BookBond blog, just show the front.
Aside from the other half of the image, the back covers were cool because they would always have the three quotes representing Bond, the villain, and the "girl", and the "girl" quote would usually be the sexiest line from the entire book.
Also very cool the 007 Biography matches this set. Except the photo is of a pile of files, not a variety of objects spread across a desk. Almost as if, after a case is closed, Bond has to decide which artifacts are strictly needed for future reference and compresses it all down to a few pages of paper documents. (I bet he kept all the girls' photos in those files)
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edit: I just checked my harddrive and no I did not save WearySloth's imaginary LaLD cover.
damn, damn and double-damn!
WearySloth, if youre out there, could you repost that swell image for all us other Bond-obsessives to admire?
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further edit: the Collecting Ian Fleming & James Bond Books site shows both sides of these covers, but as a pair of slightly oblique images rather than one big image. I guess you'd have to destroy the book to scan the whole thing properly.
Thank you, TP. It was in one of the stands outside of the Oxfam shop. -{
I remember that cover but don't think I ever owned a copy. It's interesting how different it is from the other movie tie-ins - they seem to be struggling with how different the short story collection is from the film, despite there being far more material in the film from the book than many previous Bond movies. Bond paperback covets in general from this period are not much to my taste.
The name Weary Sloth sounds very familiar, as if I know them from another forum, such as Mausoleum Club.
I love the name 'messy desk' for these covers!
I know tMwtGG had already been replaced by a film tie-in by the time I bought the books. And tSWLM and OP were impossible to find new. I had to start scrounging round used book stores to find those three, and never knew at the time why LaLD was so elusive.
tSWLM and MR didn't get film tie-ins, instead we got the Christopher Wood novelisations. So that odd looking FYEO tie-in would have been the first film tie-in edition done in six years, and I don't think it was PAN publishing them any more by that point. I think it was those generic looking girls-on-guns Panther editions that were current by then.