New Limited Edition Folio Society Book Celebrating 70 Years of 007 Announced
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The Folio Society have announced the upcoming release of a Limited Edition Folio in celebration of 70 Years of 007.
Available for pre-order from 2:00 PM (BST) on Tuesday, 4 April, 2023.
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It’s a £500 copy of Casino Royale.
WTF?
Twitter: @mybudgetbond1
I don't think it looks particularly nice, which would put me off.
😂🤣😂🤣 $725 USD for another edition of CR...... This Bond anniversary stuff is getting out of control.. to the point it is laughable...
But hey.... Folio does do beautiful work... I do have all the other Fleming Bond works they have printed.... and for some.. the retail on those could be considered overpriced too.. So I get it... comes down to a proportional amount of "disposable income" in the end... So I do not fault anyone with the cash on hand for picking it up as a collectible art piece.... Just waaaaaay out of my personal range...
It’s really disappointing- a series of edited books with meh covers, and a £500 copy of a book we already own; that’s the 70th anniversary tie-ins.
Not exactly Christmas is it?
Twitter: @mybudgetbond1
A brand new novella too, and it’s only April.
It looks nice, but not at that price. I'm also not sure that having Kim Sherwood write the foreword is exactly a bonus.
I think IFP must be taking an leaf out of Eon's playbook (if you'll pardon the pun) and putting out stuff only the richest Bond fans can afford to buy. I suppose they'll need it as (given the fan backlash) the sales of the censored versions of Fleming's Bond books probably won't be anything to write home about.
Fay Dalton's illustrations are wonderful but I always thought Bond's face was not very faithful to Fleming's description. Take this YOLT illustration for instance. Bond's features don't appear rough enough. He looks like some sort of young playboy, which is not the way I picture him at all.
And here we have George Almond's work. See the difference ?
He's just sort of traced over Fleming's sketch there though. I think you have to use a bit of artistic licence and I prefer her style, even though the illustration of him cocking his gun at the top of this page looks like an unnatural pose to me.
I know, it was just to underline the fact I don't have the feeling to see Bond's face when I look at her work.
But that’s for the coronation- and a last minute thing
Twitter: @mybudgetbond1
so is the illustration at the top of the page Fay Dalton? from this new book?
does it contain illustrations different from the previous Casino Royale folio edition?
and who is George Almond? whered that illustration come form?
The press release mentions it as part of the the 'exciting year which celebrates 70 years of 007'; but okay, don't read it then...?
10x+ for a leather binding...bold.
"Yes" to the first and "I think so" to the second.
George Almond is an artist who has provided illustrations of Fleming's books to various publications since the 80s, if not before. If memory serves, he illustrated Raymond Benson's The James Bond Bedside Companion, one of the most important Bond reference books of the 80s. He also illustrated John Griswold’s Ian Fleming’s James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming’s Bond Stories, a very valuable reference book from 2006.
To be honest I'm not a great fan of Almond's style, which tends to make everyone look uglier or more grotestque than they should, but some fans love him. I don't know where the color pic came from; most of his stuff is in black and white.
Funny enough... that illustration of him racking the slide of his Walther is pretty solid in some aspects... I've been a cop in Nashville Tennessee for 20 years.... bringing a handgun up into "your workspace" (close to the chest) when reloading, racking the slide - then extending out to go to work is how we were trained.... 👮 Now the fact he has his finger inside the trigger guard as opposed to on the frame is a huge red flag for the illustrator not knowing F*ck all about firearms...
Also.... why the hell is his tie tucked into his pants too !!!
I'm not criticising the technique (speaking of knowledge of firearms, it's a Beretta incidentally 😉 ) but as someone who has to draw people an awful lot in my day job of 20 years, the pose itself doesn't quite ring true to me anatomically .
Point made - regarding "Beretta" ... 20 years of illustration ?! Thats awesome ! Do you have links to your work ?
Well you can see some on my Etsy shop I guess. I’m not saying I’m anywhere near Ms Dalton’s standard!
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ThunderSpyArt
I wouldn't say "uglier" is the word. I think Almond wanted to capture the fantasy of this universe through the faces of the characters, which can be seen as some kind of tribute to Fleming's imagination, whereas Dalton's style is much more realistic. But let's be clear, I think her work is absolutely fantastic !
I like roughly 90% of Fay Dalton’s Bond art, but have concerns for a few pieces, some minor:
(1) In the new CR edition with Bond cocking his PPK, his body build is just a bit too beefy and the facial scar is missing.
(2) In the black and white painting of Bond and Vesper having dinner, Bond’s hair looks shaggy.
(3) In TB, Domino has dark hair like in the movie, not blond in the novel.
(4) In OHMSS, Piz Gloria looks like it was copied from the movie.
I wonder if she researched it and found Piz Gloria and thought Fleming based it on that, even though it's another location which has basically taken the name from the movie.
That’s a possibility if Piz Gloria’s restaurant structure had already existed during Fleming’s research period prior to 1962. But according to the below timeline, the structure was likely built around 1967 after the cable car railway was completed and before EON stepped in to finish the facility:
https://schilthorn.ch/cmsfiles/meilensteine_e.pdf
According to Charles Helfenstein’s Making of OHMSS (p. 12) “Fleming based Blofeld's mountaintop lair on an amalgam of 3 alpine sources; the Sphinx Observatory at Jungfraugoch ("Atom watchers on the Jungfrau") in the Swiss Alps, Adolph Hitler's Eagle's Nest near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, and Schloss Mittersill, a sporting club in the Austrian Alps.” Googling images of those 3 locations, IMO any of them are more visually impressive than the Piz Gloria of the movie and would have translated nicely as a Fay Dalton painting.
BTW, your artwork is beautiful 🥂
Thank you, you’re very kind. I know Fleming didn’t base it on the building at Schilthorn, I’m saying that if you Google Piz Gloria today an image of a real place with that name comes up, so she may have thought that’s a real place that Fleming based his book on.
That’s a possibility if Piz Gloria’s restaurant structure had already existed during Fleming’s research period prior to 1962. But according to the below timeline, the structure was likely built around 1967 after the cable car railway was completed and before EON stepped in to finish the facility:
https://schilthorn.ch/cmsfiles/meilensteine_e.pdf
According to Charles Helfenstein’s Making of OHMSS (p. 12) “Fleming based Blofeld's mountaintop lair on an amalgam of 3 alpine sources; the Sphinx Observatory at Jungfraugoch ("Atom watchers on the Jungfrau") in the Swiss Alps, Adolph Hitler's Eagle's Nest near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, and Schloss Mittersill, a sporting club in the Austrian Alps.” Googling images of those 3 locations, IMO any of them are more visually impressive than the Piz Gloria of the movie and would have translated nicely as a Fay Dalton painting.
BTW, your artwork is beautiful 🥂
Do I post my reply again...? 😁