Secondhand paperback/hardback finds

BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
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.
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    edited June 2016
    Awesome, I like the sound of that YOLT hardback.

    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! :)) I think it is one of the most satisfying, and also relatively cheap areas of Bond collecting.
  • BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Awesome, I like the sound of that YOLT hardback.

    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! :)) I think it is one of the most satisfying, and also relatively cheap areas of Bond collecting.

    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.
  • superadosuperado Regent's Park West (CaliforniaPosts: 2,651MI6 Agent
    Bleuville wrote:
    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.

    I remember buying that particular Berkeley paperback of TB, "first hand," lol! The silhouette cover art was instrumental in my purchasing decision. :)) Today, with the Internet there are just so many avenues for Bond related books one can avail of, but back in the 80's, as a teen discovering the original Fleming books, the visits to local book stores to purchase whichever ones were physically available (not all the Fleming titles were) with meager funds bring back pleasant memories.
    "...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
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    This morning I found a nice 1959 Pan paperback of Casino Royale. A very pleasing addition to my collection of early PBs.
  • BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
    Bleuville wrote:
    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.

    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!)
  • BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
    Bleuville wrote:
    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.

    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.
  • Enjoying DeathEnjoying Death Toronto, ON CANADAPosts: 1,231MI6 Agent
    edited July 2016
    I purchased last week a first edition hardcover TMWTGG by NAL. It's sadly not the UK version of the book but it is first print, first run from 1965 and I got it for only $5 and it's in great shape!

    I have no idea what it's worth but it doesn't matter.


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    Pussy Galore: “My name is Pussy Galore.”
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  • ACACIA_AVENUEACACIA_AVENUE UKPosts: 1,774MI6 Agent
    Managed to get a nice clean copy of the 2007 Folio Society version of Live and Let Die, with slipcase -{
    One of us smells like a tart's handkerchief.
  • BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
    Bleuville wrote:
    Bleuville wrote:
    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.

    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.)

    I had the last week on leave and drove up to Hay-On-Wye again (via the scenic Black Mountains-mid-Wales) to buy some more
    Bond paperbacks, and got a few "Still Life" covers from 1976. Lots of old bookshops at Hay.
    I got a bookclub hardback of Goldfinger (no dust cover) and 1968 1st edition of Colonel Sun (with surreal dust jacket illustration).

    Pleasantly surprised to find 3x Quiller (spy stories) HARDBACKS (never seen before-only bought paperbacks before.)
    Written by Adam Hall (aka Elleston Trevor) from 1965 to 1996-19 novels.
    One of them had a photo of the author on the back. Excellent 1st person tense stories.

    Bleuville.

    Bleuville.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    There's nothing like a pleasing find in a second hand bookshop.

    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.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Congratulations, that was a nice find -{
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    Just thought I'd add a photo of the two Gardner hardbacks that I mentioned in my previous post. I'm sure you'll agree that they look great. I love the Chopping-esque cover art by Trevor Scobie. I finally finished reading the Gardner series last year. I think I might just go back and reread some of the early ones. For Special Services and Role of Honour are two that I am particularly keen to revisit because I wasn't that keen on them first time round, but I think they will benefit from a rereading.

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    I thought RoH was one of the better Gardner's, some of which was quietly, er, influential on 80s Bond movies. On the other hand, FSS* was a letdown after his first.

    * not to be confused with FFS, my reaction on reading "Cold".
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,417Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Just thought I'd add a photo of the two Gardner hardbacks that I mentioned in my previous post. I'm sure you'll agree that they look great. I love the Chopping-esque cover art by Trevor Scobie. I finally finished reading the Gardner series last year. I think I might just go back and reread some of the early ones. For Special Services and Role of Honour are two that I am particularly keen to revisit because I wasn't that keen on them first time round, but I think they will benefit from a rereading.

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    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 -{
    YNWA 97
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,417Chief of Staff
    Barbel wrote:
    I thought RoH was one of the better Gardner's, some of which was quietly, er, influential on 80s Bond movies. On the other hand, FSS* was a letdown after his first.

    I couldn't agree more -{
    Barbel wrote:
    * not to be confused with FFS, my reaction on reading "Cold".

    I couldn't agree more :))
    YNWA 97
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Just thought I'd add a photo of the two Gardner hardbacks that I mentioned in my previous post. I'm sure you'll agree that they look great. I love the Chopping-esque cover art by Trevor Scobie. I finally finished reading the Gardner series last year. I think I might just go back and reread some of the early ones. For Special Services and Role of Honour are two that I am particularly keen to revisit because I wasn't that keen on them first time round, but I think they will benefit from a rereading.

    IMG_0500.jpg

    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 -{

    Any pictures of those paintings, Sir Miles? What a neat idea! :) -{
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,417Chief of Staff
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Just thought I'd add a photo of the two Gardner hardbacks that I mentioned in my previous post. I'm sure you'll agree that they look great. I love the Chopping-esque cover art by Trevor Scobie. I finally finished reading the Gardner series last year. I think I might just go back and reread some of the early ones. For Special Services and Role of Honour are two that I am particularly keen to revisit because I wasn't that keen on them first time round, but I think they will benefit from a rereading.

    IMG_0500.jpg

    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 -{

    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 -{
    YNWA 97
  • clublosclublos Jacksonville, FLPosts: 193MI6 Agent
    I got this the other day for the price on the cover. It’s not in great shape but I think it’s worth a little more.

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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    clublos wrote:
    I got this the other day for the price on the cover. It’s not in great shape but I think it’s worth a little more.

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    My goodness! It certainly is! I'd love to get that edition at a reasonable price. Well done. -{
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ggl007ggl007 SpainPosts: 388MI6 Agent
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    I hope they're cheap cos I'm leaving them to my family in my will!
  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    Reviving this thread to show off this set of four Pan Bond novels I picked up this weekend with the early 1970s photographic wraparound covers.

    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.
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  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    Am tidying some of my Bond collection - here's the other wraparound cover I have, You Only Live Twice.
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    Plus a couple of nice examples of the Pan 'Yellow 007' covers from the early 60's

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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    edited July 2018
    I got the FYEO film tie-in cover (published by Triad Granada) in a large Oxfam charity bookshop yesterday for £1. I was pretty chuffed as I've never seen it for sale anywhere before. :)

    Here's a picture of the cover: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780586045961?cm_sp=rec-_-vhr_1-_-plp&reftag=vhr_1
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    edited July 2018
    IanFryer wrote:
    Reviving this thread to show off this set of four Pan Bond novels I picked up this weekend with the early 1970s photographic wraparound covers.

    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.
    the "messy desk" (still life) editions are the versions I had when I was 12 years old, but I've long since lost them, and they're harder to find than the 1960s PANs
    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?

    ____________________________________________
    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.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Congratulations SM on your find. {[]
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Congratulations SM on your find. {[]

    Thank you, TP. It was in one of the stands outside of the Oxfam shop. -{
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    I got the FYEO film tie-in cover (published by Triad Granada) in a large Oxfam charity bookshop yesterday for £1. I was pretty chuffed as I've never seen it for sale anywhere before. :)

    Here's a picture of the cover: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780586045961?cm_sp=rec-_-vhr_1-_-plp&reftag=vhr_1

    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.
  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    IanFryer wrote:
    Reviving this thread to show off this set of four Pan Bond novels I picked up this weekend with the early 1970s photographic wraparound covers.

    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.
    the "messy desk" (still life) editions are the versions I had when I was 12 years old, but I've long since lost them, and they're harder to find than the 1960s PANs
    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)




    ____________________________________________
    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?

    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!
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    I'm the only one who calls them "messy desk" editions, everybody else calls them "still lifes". They look more like messy desks than still lifes to me. I think all those objects are supposed to relate to the mission. They're actually very detailed if you look at them close, the objects are very specific. Whoever designed them knew the plot details of the books!

    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.
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