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What editions of the Fleming novels do you own?

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  • 007InVT007InVT Classified
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    It's included here: http://literary007.com/2014/05/14/top-10-most-collectable-james-bond-paperbacks/
  • Villiers53Villiers53
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    007InVT wrote:
    It's included here: http://literary007.com/2014/05/14/top-10-most-collectable-james-bond-paperbacks/

    What a great site this is!
    A huge congratulations to @007InVT

  • marketto007marketto007 Brazil
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    Part of my collection. All the Fleming first editions released in Brazil in 60's/70's.

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  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited June 2014 Posts: 13,894
    Some nice covers there, @marketto007, especially Terror No Caribe / Dr No. I shall have to try and pick up some of those for my own collection.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    My collection is very mismatched. Mainly the Pan 1960's editions (love the OHMSS cover, the wedding ring in the bloody snow) a Casino Royale from the 50's, a YOLT Pan from the 70's. Some of these are really dog eared now but most of them my brother got at jumble sales back in the 80's!

    I do own a full collection of Corgi editions from the early 90's but their covers are so boring. I won them in a raffle at a Bond convention so I wasn't complaining!
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    I've got these, but not with the shiny cover.
  • GerardGerard
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    The Vintage "Photocovers" edition :

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    Beautiful, just beautiful.
  • shamanimalshamanimal
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    Sorry for the rubbish photo, it's off my phone.

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    The top three shelves are my Fleming books. Top shelf is 50's and 60's Pan paperbacks, and Fleming film tie-ins (LALD is missing). Then HB book club editions, again 60's.

    Middle shelf is Fleming 1st editions, and the US p/b re-pints from about 15 years ago. Then the centenary editions.

    Bottom shelf is various continuation novels, but I don't really collect them, though I am a fan of the 'guest writer' concept, and I make sure I get the firsts on those.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Nice collection, @shamanimal. Thanks for sharing!
  • shamanimalshamanimal
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    Thanks, nothing really rare though, not like some of the fantastic books on this thread.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    A fine collection there, @shamanimal. Quite a cross section from Fleming first editions to Triggor Mortis. I don't have any of the hardbacks that you have on your 3rd shelf.
  • shamanimalshamanimal
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    The 2008 Centenary editions? Unfortunately, I dragged my feet getting three of them and they're not true 'firsts'. But they're still lovely.
    I love the Pan paperbacks from the sixties.

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    Books for red-blooded men on trains.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    shamanimal wrote: »
    The 2008 Centenary editions? Unfortunately, I dragged my feet getting three of them and they're not true 'firsts'. But they're still lovely.
    I love the Pan paperbacks from the sixties.

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    Books for red-blooded men on trains.

    Don't forget 'planes and beds' too!!

    Cracking set of covers there. You really can't beat the Pans for that 60s feel. I love how they smell too. Takes me right back to reading my first Bond novel.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited August 2016 Posts: 13,894
    shamanimal wrote: »
    The 2008 Centenary editions? Unfortunately, I dragged my feet getting three of them and they're not true 'firsts'. But they're still lovely.


    Yes, the centenary editions. I too dragged my feet on theme, but I now see that they have increased in price. The richard chopping artwork on the Fleming originals are the best, but I also like the Panther Fleming/Amis pb's:

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  • shamanimalshamanimal
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    I don't like the girls & guns covers so much bud. My next collection will be the still-life seventies ones I think. My first ever Bond books were the still-life ones. Luckily, they'll be cheap as chips.
    Sorry, but the girls & guns looks very dated, in a bad way, to me.
  • shamanimalshamanimal
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    TheWizardOfIce wrote: »
    Cracking set of covers there. You really can't beat the Pans for that 60s feel. I love how they smell too. Takes me right back to reading my first Bond novel.

    Oh yes. They're lovely. I like the fact that most are pre-movie, and the first pictures of Bond (albeit paintings) are on the cover. Proper little slices of history.

    And yes.. the smell of old paper. Mmm.

  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    shamanimal wrote: »
    I don't like the girls & guns covers so much bud. My next collection will be the still-life seventies ones I think. My first ever Bond books were the still-life ones. Luckily, they'll be cheap as chips.
    Sorry, but the girls & guns looks very dated, in a bad way, to me.

    Agree I've always thought those covers look so naff in a page 3 kind of way.

  • shamanimalshamanimal
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    They're like the covers of those Top Of The Pops 70's albums that featured songs 'not by original artists'.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    shamanimal wrote: »
    They're like the covers of those Top Of The Pops 70's albums that featured songs 'not by original artists'.

    They always struck me as done by the Thomas Newman of covers.

    'Just take a pic of a bird with a gun. Sorted. Now when do I get my paycheck?'
  • stagstag In the thick of it!
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    I own all the books in paperback. They were bequeathed to me by friend & although I had always been a part time Bond fan it was reading these books which really turned my head.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    TheWizardOfIce wrote: »
    shamanimal wrote: »
    I don't like the girls & guns covers so much bud. My next collection will be the still-life seventies ones I think. My first ever Bond books were the still-life ones. Luckily, they'll be cheap as chips.
    Sorry, but the girls & guns looks very dated, in a bad way, to me.

    Agree I've always thought those covers look so naff in a page 3 kind of way.

    Me too. I only got my first of those girl and gun Panther editions recently - The Man with the Golden Gun. I much prefer the Pan editions.
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
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    I have a full set of pan yellow band editons (they only released CR to FRWL) a near complete set of the original run of 'great pan' edition (only missing the DAF one), a full set of pan 1965 editions (CR through OP - many of those were the editions I first read as a kid). A full set of the recent penguin classic edition (great covers and bought them for a steal), all the movie tie-in covers (DN through MR and LTK thru CR 06. there were no official full movie cover ones for OP, AVTAK,or TLD or QoS, SF or SP) and I have hardbacks with dust jackets - some reprints, some first editions of all the Flemings except for CR and MR - still working on those.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Does anyone have The Man With The Golden Gun, Pan paperback from the early 70s with the 'still life' photo covers? Think it's quite rare as they went with a publicity still from the film shortly after while the rest (save for LALD which had the poster art) stayed as the photo covers. Would really like to get this one.
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  • TopGearJB007TopGearJB007
    edited October 2021 Posts: 624
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    MrBrown wrote:
    Were they the hardcovers with the girls on front covers?

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    No, these, the Penguin editions:

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    The cover for LALD makes it a hell of a thing to bring to school to read! ;)

    I'm currently working on tracking down the rest of the US Penguin editions like the ones Brady posted. I haven't read the Flemings in about 15 years and I want to read them again. I still need 4 of them to have all the Fleming novels, and 7 more to complete the Penguin set.

    I love, love, love the cover art for the US Penguin editions.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Here is my Fleming novel collection- the 2008 Penguin centenary edition (100 years since Fleming's birth); 4 Pan novels I found at the markets; and LALD by the Reprint Society London.

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    That's the set I own. The Centenary collection
    Bought for me by my good Lady as a Birthday gift!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited October 2021 Posts: 23,553
    The first ones I ever bought were these:

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    Years later, while moving house, I bought these:

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    But before I had money to buy this many books, I read them all in Dutch in this collection, which was in my local library:

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    Recently, my mother-in-law discovered that she had always owned this set but she'd never read the books (no interest in them) and was about to throw them away. Nostalgia forced me to suggest that she transfer the box to me (along with her daughter ;-) ) and so while I'm not planning to ever read the translations again, who knows, maybe one day any offspring of mine might consider checking them out in his native language first.
  • NeverSayNeverNeverSayNever Rome
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    But before I had money to buy this many books, I read them all in Dutch in this collection, which was in my local library:

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    Funny how all these books have the same cover model, and if I am not mistaken, she never appeared in any of the films... who is she?
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited October 2021 Posts: 4,444
    Nice so you have now ''Contra Kolonel Soen'' too. In January 2020 i bought for 0,50 original first print from 1968 and for another 0,50 Re-Print from 1970 (With Dices on the front) of Casino Royale.

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    This was my second edition of Casino Royale. Also have 2006 film edition with poster art from the movie. Besides the others, special from O. F. Snelling: James Bond Onder Het Mes (Original title: Double O Seven, James Bond: A Report) from 1964. Overall from the 60's or the 70's with art created by Dick Bruna (Creater of Nijntje/Bruna stores). 2 Pan Book editions in English: Goldfinger and DAF.

    Example of one of the other 14 is 1975 print of For Your Eyes Only named ''Van Een Blik Tot Een Moord'' What means From A View To A Kill.

    D/1975/0939/159. Print from 1975. Pagecount 192.

    Part 1: Van Een Blik Tot Een Moord (A View To A Kill)
    Part 2: Voor Uw Ogen Alleen (For Your Eyes Only)
    Part 3: De Kwantum Soelaas Theorie (Quantum Of Solace)
    Part 4: Risico (Risico)
    Part 5: De Hildebrand Rariteit (The Hildebrand Rarity)

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    Other ones in order of the movies:

    Doctor No (1974)
    Veel Liefs Uit Moskou (1965)
    De Man Met De Gouden Vingers (1965)
    Kalm Aan, Mr. Bond (1965)
    Je Leeft Maar Twee Maal (1973)
    In Dienst Van Hare Majesteit (1965)
    Doden Voor Diamanten (1975)
    Moord Onder Water(1965)
    De Man Met De Gouden Revolver (1974)
    De Spion Die Mij Beminde (1964)
    Hoog Spel (1965)
    Octopussy (1966) include Part 1: Octopussy (Octopussy) Part 2: Veel Liefs Uit Berlijn (The Living Daylights) Part 3: Om Het Bezit Van Een Dame (The Property Of A Lady)
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    NickTwentyTwo wrote: »
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    That thing survived?
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