Latest Updates - Ian Fleming

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Comment by 23skidoo:

The edition shown here was clearly not dated 1958 as it shows images from the movie. I'm assuming April 1964 based on the notes; correction submitted.

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Comment by 23skidoo:

I haven't read my Pan paperback edition for years, but I don't recall there being a map in that one.

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Comment by 23skidoo:

There is a 2008 variant of this cover art published as a promotion for the Times that retitles the book Octopussy and 007 in New York and omits "Living Daylights" and "Property of a Lady". (Source)

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Watch for colour variants on the title text: the green was used for the widely available 4th printing, with other colours such as blue and red used for earlier printings. (Source)

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Cover by Raymond Hawkey. According to 007 Magazine, there is a variant printing in which the Hawkey cover was used but with a dust jacket-style wraparound of the film tie-in cover.

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Comment by 23skidoo:

According to 007 Magazine there is a variant of the Pan film tie-in paperback edition that uses the Raymond Hawkey scorpion cover but with a dust jacket of the film tie-in cover.

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Final Bond book to be issued in one of those beautiful "Great Pan" paperback editions before Pan transitioned into the (still gorgeous) still lifes for the rest of the Fleming era. Edit: there appears to have been a paperback of The Diamond Smugglers (a non-Bond book) done with a Great Pan-style cover that came after this. Still, a shame the rest of Fleming's Bonds didn't get the Great Pan treatment.

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Comment by 23skidoo:

First date of publication can't be 1959 because one of the books featured was first published in 1963. This combination of books should carry as year of first publication whatever year this specific omnibus first came out. Correction submitted.

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Comment by 23skidoo:

First UK paperback edition, though not published until several years after the hardcover (and after the US paperback). The story goes that Fleming didn't care for the book and managed to delay any paperback release in the UK until after his death. No idea if that's true or not, but it is known that when the time came to sell the film rights to EON Productions, Fleming only agreed to sell the title rights, not the story, which is why the 1977 film had nothing to do with the novel (and why Christopher Wood was allowed to write a novelization of his script). For those in the UK who didn't pick up the first hardcover edition in 1962, this ended up being a postscript to the Fleming canon when it finally hit paperback over there.

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Comment by 23skidoo:

Some printings of this film tie-in edition reportedly came with an insert note supposedly from the Bond girl, Domino. Not sure if this specific printing had it or not. EDIT: The note was included with the film tie-in edition and can be found reproduced and discussed on this 007 Magazine web page.