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Our James Bond community was recently treated to a collection of new 007 book-cover designs created by Stuart Basinger. Basinger was inspired by the iconic Pan and Signet jackets published in the UK and US during the late 1950s and 1960s. Working from those major motifs, and using images from vintage magazines, he was able to include titles never seen during the original heyday of these publishers, including short stories by Ian Fleming and continuation stories by Robert Markham (Kingsley…

The Big Sleep–The Book: We all know the movie The Big Sleep based on Raymond Chandler’s book. The main story in the movie basically follows the book so I won’t repeat it. Here are…

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It's 60 years since Ian Fleming published his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. His greatest fan, Mike VanBlaricum, examines how six decades of cover artists have fulfilled their mission to identify 007 on book shelves around the world

Raymond Chandler: Smart-Aleck kill. Penguin Books 1977. Cover designed by James Tormey using material from the movie.

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It's 60 years since Ian Fleming published his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. His greatest fan, Mike VanBlaricum, examines how six decades of cover artists have fulfilled their mission to identify 007 on book shelves around the world

Many of Ian Fleming's short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, and For Your Eyes Only. The title story, Quantum of Solace, lends its name to the James Bond film, released in Fall 2008. This collection will be published to coincide with the film's release, as well as to continue Penguin's centenary celebrations of Fleming's birth. Ian Fleming Penguin…

The Best Of The Worst

Raymond Chandler is one of my favourite authors and I've been meaning to put together a gallery of covers from his books for some while. I have to admit that I don't think Chandler was best served by his British publishers. The movie tie-in covers make an interesting set, but I'd would love to have seen Chandler published by Pan or one of the other companies that did painted covers; I imagine they would have been gorgeous. Pan did publish Chandler many years later, but it was in the days of…

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You might have heard Fleming was a playboy and spymaster before he penned Casino Royale at age 44. But did you also know he wrote a famous children's book?