Easton Press: Ian Fleming's Complete James Bond

Shatterhand67Shatterhand67 Safe HousePosts: 424MI6 Agent
in James Bond Literature
I just got the Easton Press Spring 2008 catalog in the mail and I am happy to say that they are offering the complete James Bond series of books by Ian Fleming. I just missed out on these the last time they were offered. I definitely plan on placing my order soon. The books are leather bound with frontispiece repoductions of the original jacket designs. These are absolutely beautiful books.

If anyone is interested their website is:

www.eastonpresscatalog.com
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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,906Chief of Staff
    Better yet, here's a direct link to the books themselves:


    http://www.eastonpressbooks.com/leather/product.asp?code=1437&c=4&source=CU997

    A handsome set indeed.
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  • Apocrypha23Apocrypha23 Posts: 177MI6 Agent
    I just lost my composure alltogether.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,757Chief of Staff
    Yep - a lovely set. It really looks like being a very expensive year for Bond fans :#
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  • jetsetwillyjetsetwilly Liverpool, UKPosts: 1,048MI6 Agent
    I bought the complete facsimilies of the first editions from Easton Press, and they were/are handsome, wonderful books. A note of caution however; purchase anything from them and they immediately consider you are the sort of person who is also interested in bone china shepherdess figurines, plaster models of your favourite dog breed, or plates of your favourite football team hoisting its latest trophy aloft on a plate. As a result they will plague you with catalogues and "special invitations" UNTIL THE END OF TIME.
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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,906Chief of Staff
    I wouldn't mind a set of James Bond "Precious Moments" figurines myself. . .
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  • scaramanga1scaramanga1 The English RivieraPosts: 845Chief of Staff
    I am short of the complete set by three books of the replica first eds -I may have to see if I can get the ones I'm missing just to complete the set. :)
  • 72897289 Beau DesertPosts: 1,691MI6 Agent
    Are not the "First Edition Library" and the "Easton Press" books different animals?

    Easton Presses books are handsomely leather bound and not "special runs" while the "First Edition Library" books were a special run, exactly duplicating the original Fleming first editions.

    Both are wonderful. I have the First Edition set, sadly still wrapped in cello and never read. They are the most prized items in my Bond collection.

    I would love to have the Easton Press editions to read ....... I still using a 1960's set of Signet Paperbacks, they are a bit dogeared and yellow.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited August 2008
    I have a complete set of the First Edition Library facsimile Bond novels, the ones with: reproductions of the original hardback cover designs; reprints of the original dust jackets; and slip cases which again show the dust jacket images. The only defect in the publication is that there are one or two pages in YOLT where the facsimile copy is slightly awry and the text goes a little wonky.

    I'm not going to invest in the new Easton Press leather-bound editions, because, frankly, I doubt they'd top this dust jacket replica set, and for me there's also the issue of expense.

    I ordered my First Edition replicas through a company called the Danberry Mint about ten years ago - they sent me two books every month till I'd collected the 14 - and indeed, for a while, they plagued me with junk mail to buy all sorts of other expensive tat.

    It's a shame the series didn't include similar replicas of 'Thrilling Cities', 'The Diamond Smugglers' and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.

    I decided to read my copies rather than simply leave them sealed, and I took great pleasure in this simulated re-living of the original Jonathan Cape experience. (Although my first reading of Fleming as a boy was mostly with Pan paperbacks, I first read FRWL, OHMSS and YOLT in Cape editions. Those early Cape reading experiences are the ones about which I am most nostalgiac, so the First Edition replicas serve me well.)
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  • RWIG45RWIG45 Posts: 39MI6 Agent
    I am interested in the 14 books series facsimile editions with the dust jacket and slipcase but can find very little information about them. I thought they had been done by Easton but I guess it was another company. Any help guys?

    Randy
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,535MI6 Agent
    They were distributed by Danbury Mint. Danjaq-off has a set for sale in the Mem & Collecting forum.
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  • RWIG45RWIG45 Posts: 39MI6 Agent
    Asp9mm wrote:
    They were distributed by Danbury Mint. Danjaq-off has a set for sale in the Mem & Collecting forum.

    How do I get there> I would love to buy the set.

    Randy
  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,535MI6 Agent
    Here you go....


    http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/42518/bond-books-for-sale/
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  • RWIG45RWIG45 Posts: 39MI6 Agent
    Thanks Asp9mm!
  • RWIG45RWIG45 Posts: 39MI6 Agent
    7289 wrote:
    Are not the "First Edition Library" and the "Easton Press" books different animals?

    Easton Presses books are handsomely leather bound and not "special runs" while the "First Edition Library" books were a special run, exactly duplicating the original Fleming first editions.

    Both are wonderful. I have the First Edition set, sadly still wrapped in cello and never read. They are the most prized items in my Bond collection.

    I would love to have the Easton Press editions to read ....... I still using a 1960's set of Signet Paperbacks, they are a bit dogeared and yellow.


    I just got a FEL - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY and you better believe I'll be reading that puppy. I also got a Easten Press leather of MOONRAKER and am working on a deal with the guy to get the other 5 he has in that set. I want the FEL set most but they are so dang much more than the leather ones. No way it's real leather, has to be leatherette.

    Randy
  • RWIG45RWIG45 Posts: 39MI6 Agent
    Well, I found 2 of the slipcased FEL editions I could afford. However I found 8 of the 2005 leather bound editions for very reasonable prices and the guy I got hem from even included a US first hardcover of THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER (which I really wanted) and it is in Very Fine. The leather bounds were still sealed (they aren't now though. :)) )

    Randy
  • RWIG45RWIG45 Posts: 39MI6 Agent
    I have a strange question. I am putting together the Easton Press leather bound Bond collection from 2005 and I want to make a special wooden book rack to sit on my desk to display them. I am still missing 6 books so I don't know exactly how wide it needs to be. If anyone has the set, could you measure from the left edge of CR to the right edge of O&TLD. and tell me the full length of the set in inches?
    It would look something like the one here but made to fit exactly to the 14 leather bound books.
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  • RWIG45RWIG45 Posts: 39MI6 Agent
    Dang, some of these title are expensive as all you know what and some just can't be found.

    Randy
  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,320MI6 Agent
    Randy

    Whats the leather versions like???
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