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Deciphering Fleming: Proof copies (pt 4)
The Man With The Golden Gun was the Ian Fleming book that was substantially 'unfinished' (but published anyway in 1965). Does the uncorrected proof show a similarly incomplete and error-strewn book? Find out here:
Peter Crush
Sep 1910 min read


The 'original' censored Bond books
The latest Ian Fleming hardback books include some minor sensitivity reader changes - but these books are nothing compared to the original 'censored' books - the 1970s Bulls-eye children's paperbacks...
Peter Crush
Aug 3110 min read


The 'original' later hardbacks: The FELs
As the Folio Society set of James Bond books comes to completion in October, I take a look at the 'original' later hardback set - the mysterious FELs:
Peter Crush
Aug 219 min read


The rarest James Bond later impressions
Amongst the early James Bond Jonathan Cape reprints, there are particular impressions that are conspicuously rarer than others - and by some considerable margin:
Peter Crush
Aug 68 min read
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