Vintage to publish all 14 Ian Fleming Bond Novels in Print and eBooks

MrSpy

Meh. Bond has had worse:

This looks like some kind of twisted date-rate porn:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v-3gbtENGj8/TUm21b64cqI/AAAAAAAAH9s/cMJ_V7qVXv8/s1600/You+Asked+for+It.FRONT-1.jpg

How about this nice serial-killer cover?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zh_c9MvuJuY/R-csjLukCdI/AAAAAAAAAHw/ei9oy5BYsSs/s400/Too-Hot-To-Handle.jpg

Hmmm, I didn't know Bond was a woman!!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_p4I9kL_myy0/SRhJCEdD9uI/AAAAAAAABEk/Vu1e1p3N00k/s400/PLON-FLEUVE-NOIR-james-bond+1.jpg

This is just plain weird:

http://www.pandora.ca/pictures192/311055.jpg

This looks like a rummage-sale:

http://www.pandora.ca/pictures15/105315.jpg

This is just about as bad as the new ones:

http://images.wikia.com/jamesbond/images/6/60/Casino_Royale_(novel)_first_edition.jpg

I don't care for these new covers either but Bond has survived a plethora of crappy covers, he'll survive these.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

The second to has nothing to do with CR, but you better watch what you say about the last cover @MrSpy. Ian Fleming designed it himself.

MrSpy

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:

The second to has nothing to do with CR, but you better watch what you say about the last cover @MrSpy. Ian Fleming designed it himself.

That's the point ;)
The 1st Edition had an ugly cover. Bond was still successful.

Cipher

Ashamed to say that a (small) part of me is glad these aren't that great. I was about 4 novels short of having a set of Penguins and as I always thought that Vintage did a good job with their Classics covers I was expecting to be torn between getting the Vintage or Penguins. No such dilemma as Vintage have clearly dropped the ball here. I think the colour choices are really bad, particularly on Moonraker, Octopussy and FYEO - the latter two would be pretty good if they changed the colour scheme IMO. Here's hoping they do better with the covers for the standard editions.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:

Rerelease the original covers for Fleming's sake, those were brilliant!

With the 60th anniversary of CR's publication coming up next year, hopefully Vintage will do a hardcover re-release with the original covers, or a boxed set with the originals.

Bounine

"Rerelease the original covers for Fleming's sake, those were brilliant!"

Yeah, I don't understand why they won't do this. Maybe IFP just want to confine them to the glory days of Bond. Maybe it's a sentimental issue.

Samuel001

Even one cover over the coming years would be great. So the 60th anniversary of each novel gives us the original cover reprinted. That would be really great. Who knows what else is being planned for next year?

DB5

MrSpy wrote:

Meh. Bond has had worse:

This looks like some kind of twisted date-rate porn:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v-3gbtENGj8/TUm21b64cqI/AAAAAAAAH9s/cMJ_V7qVXv8/s1600/You+Asked+for+It.FRONT-1.jpg

How about this nice serial-killer cover?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Zh_c9MvuJuY/R-csjLukCdI/AAAAAAAAAHw/ei9oy5BYsSs/s400/Too-Hot-To-Handle.jpg


I don't care for these new covers either but Bond has survived a plethora of crappy covers, he'll survive these.

LMAO Mr. Spy! And why the American publisher in the 50's decided to change the titles (and such BAD titles to boot) is beyond me!

echo

MrSpy wrote:

Yeah, terrible.
Oh well.
It's what's on the inside that matters.
These were the crummy covers I read them in the first time:

http://www.thebookbond.com/2011/10/fleming-in-80s-and-case-of-curious.html

The covers made zero difference to me.

These are the versions I read as well. It really takes me back.

Samuel001

I must say, these latest are far better. Very nice indeed. It's been so long since we've had something worth buying on the cover front.

If I didn't have the novels, I'd most certainly buy them.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

Samuel001 wrote:

I must say, these latest are far better. Very nice indeed. It's been so long since we've had something worth buying on the cover front.

If I didn't have the novels, I'd most certainly buy them.

Which covers are you referring to?

AgentJamesBond007

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/literary_fleming_vintage_paperback_designs.php3?t&s&id=03204

^That. I must say I like these covers a lot more.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

Those are very cool. I still love my Fleming centenary novels, but these are a great bunch as well.

RogueAgent

Very nice indeed! They certainly have a unique look about them.

boldfinger

AgentJamesBond007 wrote:

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/literary_fleming_vintage_paperback_designs.php3?t&s&id=03204

^That. I must say I like these covers a lot more.

I don´t like that style at all.

These are right up my alley:

Bounine wrote:

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/store/literary_fleming_vintage_reprints_covers.php3?s=collecting&id=03150

They don't seem to go to much effort with covers these days do they? I would love the original hardback covers from the 50's and 60's reprinted. Why can't they do this?

The 2002 and 2006 cover arts were also excellent.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

boldfinger wrote:

AgentJamesBond007 wrote:

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/literary_fleming_vintage_paperback_designs.php3?t&s&id=03204

^That. I must say I like these covers a lot more.

I don´t like that style at all.

These are right up my alley:

Bounine wrote:

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/store/literary_fleming_vintage_reprints_covers.php3?s=collecting&id=03150

They don't seem to go to much effort with covers these days do they? I would love the original hardback covers from the 50's and 60's reprinted. Why can't they do this?

Really? I think they are so unimaginative, and some of the titles are absolutely botched.

boldfinger

I like their simplicity a lot. It´s almost like symbolism. And the colours are killer.

The line, "There is only one Bond" on the new covers is rather ridiculous.

MajorDSmythe

AgentJamesBond007 wrote:

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/literary_fleming_vintage_paperback_designs.php3?t&s&id=03204

^That. I must say I like these covers a lot more.

Those are rather good. B-) My other Bond novels are already looking foward to these books joining them.

echo

boldfinger wrote:

The line, "There is only one Bond" on the new covers is rather ridiculous.

I could not agree more! What would have been wrong with "Bond. James Bond"?

Creasy47

Wow, what terrible covers. I hadn't looked at these until now, and it's apparent that it wasn't a bad thing: they look incredibly horrid.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

Creasy47 wrote:

Wow, what terrible covers. I hadn't looked at these until now, and it's apparent that it wasn't a bad thing: they look incredibly horrid.

Which? The black and white ones?

Creasy47

@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, yes, the ones listed on the home page.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

Creasy47 wrote:

@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, yes, the ones listed on the home page.

You don't like them? I really like them, though I am a stickler for black and white.

Creasy47

Wow, I hadn't even noticed you said black-and-white until re-reading your post. I was linked to the generic ones, the colored ones that seem all split up with the words. They look terrible.

As for the black-and-whites, DN, TB, and OHMSS look pretty cool, and, unless my eyes are fooling me, it appears that it's supposed to be real locations/a person on the cover, not a drawing, correct? If so, I've never cared for books with covers like that - always preferred drawings.

Lancaster007

It would be nice if these paperbacks were released in a boxset - don't think the missus would be too happy though, I already have three full sets! Maybe just get copies of my favs.

Creasy47

Lancaster007 wrote:

It would be nice if these paperbacks were released in a boxset - don't think the missus would be too happy though, I already have three full sets! Maybe just get copies of my favs.

Just get all of them, then tell her I said it was okay to do so. She'll be so confused that she'll (hopefully) stop caring.

But, she is a woman, and just like my lady, she's too smart.

Lancaster007

Creasy47 wrote:

Lancaster007 wrote:

It would be nice if these paperbacks were released in a boxset - don't think the missus would be too happy though, I already have three full sets! Maybe just get copies of my favs.

Just get all of them, then tell her I said it was okay to do so. She'll be so confused that she'll (hopefully) stop caring.

But, she is a woman, and just like my lady, she's too smart.

No, that's great, I'll just say Creasy47 said it would be alright, sure she'll understand. LOL.

Creasy47

Haha, I do hope so!

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

What does everyone think of the wave 2 covers?

Samuel001

I'd love to see the back of those to be certain but I feel, on the whole, they're just as good. A really nice looking collection. A set hasn't looked this good in a very long time.

Chevron

Might be worth posting this here. The November GQ magazine is giving away a Vintage paperback of Goldfinger. It's the 'colour' cover, not the black and white photo one.

And surprisingly now that I have that copy I don't hate the design quite as much as I did when the covers were first revealed.