Rare Books

texas007 · January 2010

Hi all - happy new year!
I was doing some cleaning up last night and came across these and thought it may be interesting to share the images of these rare books related to Bond.

Christopher Wood rare Cape First Edition - Bond Tie-in

Some rare proofs

Since I am from Thailand, here are some Thai Ian Fleming's Books - published back in the 60s

Enjoy -{

Texas007

Donald Grant · January 2010

Very nice Kan! Great pieces. I absolutely love the Christopher Wood/Movie Cape Firsts. Thanks for sharing.

DG

texas007 · January 2010

Donald Grant wrote:

Very nice Kan! Great pieces. I absolutely love the Christopher Wood/Movie Cape Firsts. Thanks for sharing.
DG

Thank you DG - glad you like it.
Most of my stuffs are books - I wonder how many here collect books ?

Donald Grant · January 2010

I do. I have a towering bookshelf of Bond and Bond related books and magazines. Please show us more of your collection. I'd love to see it and I'm sure others would as well. I don't have Christopher Wood firsts though, just a few paperback versions. That's why I think your Wood firsts are so cool. Movie treatment firsts, just too cool for school!

DG

thespyboys11 · January 2010

Kan,
VERY NICE!!!
Love the illustations. Can't get enough of that.
Thanks for taking the time to photograph and post them for us.
Ed
TheSpyBoys.com

Sir Miles · January 2010

Some great books there, Kan - I like the Thai versions.

I collect Bond books too, have over two bookshelves full

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qbvi · January 2010

Hi all - happy new year!
I was doing some cleaning up last night and came across these and thought it may be interesting to share the images of these rare books related to Bond.

Christopher Wood rare Cape First Edition - Bond Tie-in

Some rare proofs

Since I am from Thailand, here are some Thai Ian Fleming's Books - published back in the 60s

Enjoy -{

Hi Kan
Especially love the C.Woods. Hard to come by these in top condition liike yours. The proofs and Thai edition art is great too. Thanks for sharing pics. I have many of the Fleming 1st, Amis, Gardner and Bensons. Like DG, I love the movie tie-in editions
also. I also have the bible designed to be read as literature, the book that the real Mrs James Bond wrote describing Fleming "stealing" her husband's name, others like Scarne on Cards, Boutells Heraldry, etc. Does anyone collect these associated books too?

Happy NY. Regards, Sid

texas007 · January 2010

qbvi wrote:

Hi Kan
Especially love the C.Woods. Hard to come by these in top condition liike yours. The proofs and Thai edition art is great too. Thanks for sharing pics. I have many of the Fleming 1st, Amis, Gardner and Bensons. Like DG, I love the movie tie-in editions
also. I also have the bible designed to be read as literature, the book that the real Mrs James Bond wrote describing Fleming "stealing" her husband's name, others like Scarne on Cards, Boutells Heraldry, etc. Does anyone collect these associated books too?

Happy NY. Regards, Sid

Sid,
Glad to hear from you - has been a while.
You got some nice stuffs too.
Best wishes,
Kan

00-Agent · January 2010

Thanks for sharing the pic's. I collect Bond books too. The Fleming books, continuation novels, really any bond related books. I've only been doing it for a few years but have quickly accumulated quite a collection. I don't know that I have a lot of rare books but I do enjoy collecting them. I love going to used book stores looking for bond novels.

texas007 · January 2010

00-Agent wrote:

Thanks for sharing the pic's. I collect Bond books too. The Fleming books, continuation novels, really any bond related books. I've only been doing it for a few years but have quickly accumulated quite a collection. I don't know that I have a lot of rare books but I do enjoy collecting them. I love going to used book stores looking for bond novels.

When I first started out, I used to go to the used book stores too. It was a lot of fun - hunting for those Signet paperbacks, the MJF classic edition, the Gardner's and Benson's Bond books. I now seems to have everything I could find at those used book stores and with very little room left to spare so have not been going shopping anymore.

00-Agent · January 2010

texas007 wrote:

I now seems to have everything I could find at those used book stores and with very little room left to spare so have not been going shopping anymore.

I am quickly reaching that point too, but I still enjoy looking. Every once in a while I come across something new.

superado · January 2010

Very very nice, thank you for posting! I love the Christopher Wood novels but never even bothered to think that there were even any hardbound editions and assumed the paperbacks were "quickie" published for the supermarket aisles, as it's usually done for novelizations. Of course, these weren't mere adaptations.

David Schofield · January 2010

superado wrote:

Very very nice, thank you for posting! I love the Christopher Wood novels but never even bothered to think that there were even any hardbound editions and assumed the paperbacks were "quickie" published for the supermarket aisles, as it's usually done for novelizations. Of course, these weren't mere adaptations.

Not only were the Wood books given the full, UK hardback first edition treatment, they are both uniform in size with all the Cape Flemings and Colonel Sun. No continuation novel has been similarly uniform since.

And, IMO, Wood's James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me is the best of all the continuation novels.

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