Latest Updates - Kingsley Amis

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Comment by 23skidoo:

No one has uploaded the cover art for this edition yet. However I guess it must have been a popular painting as it was used again a couple years later as the cover of this sci-fi novel!

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Comment by 23skidoo:

@annaloog - Yup, that's the cover! I agree Colonel Sun is a great book and I wish Amis had been able to do more. There was supposed to be another Markham book by someone else but it was allegedly rejected as being too similar to Diamonds Are Forever. Still, it would be cool to have some publisher put out the "lost Robert Markham novel" someday (maybe once the literary Bond falls into public domain in the UK like he already has in Canada; a Canadian publisher could in theory put out an edition of Per Fine Ounce as there have already been a couple of Bond novels and a short story collection published here under public domain rules). EDIT March 2024: Since posting this I have learned the the manuscript for Per Fine Ounce is apparently mostly lost, though what remains formed the basis of https://www.45worlds.com/book/title/per-fine-ounce-second-edition which has had direct Bond references removed from the text.

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Comment by annaloog:

JMO, Amis/Markham's 007 novel is more satisfying (truer to Fleming's characterization) than any that John Gardner churned out. I have a couple copies of the Bantam edition, but I think they are later than the one I saw for sale way back in 1968(? my recollection may be dodgy, but the cover resembled the UK Pan edition).

23skidoo ... this?

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Comment by 23skidoo:

I look forward to someone uploading cover scans for this first edition. The cover is hilarious (seriously, what were they smoking?) When I read that Colonel Sun didn't sell very well, I point to the fact the cover looks like something Salvador Dali might paint while high rather than, say, a cover that actually is relevant to James Bond. No wonder "Robert Markham" only got one book and the Bond novels went on hiatus for the next 13 years!

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Comment by JimEss SUBS:

Covers added.