James Bond  Homepage 007museum@telia.com  Donations/Gåvor  James Bond Museum EON Productions movies 1.  Dr No 1962 2.  From Russia With Love 1963 3.  Goldfinger 1964 4.  Thunderball 1965 5.  You Only Live Twice 1967 6.  On Her Majesty`s Secret Service 7.  Diamonds Are Forever1971 8.  Live And Let Die1973 9.  The Man With The Golden Gun 10.The Spy Who Loved Me 11.Moonraker 1979 12.For Your Eyes Only 1981 13.Octopussy 1983   14.A View To A Kill 1985   15.The Living Daylights 1987 16.Licence To Kill 1989 17.Goldeneye1995 18.Tomorrow Never Dies1997 19.The World Is Not Enough 20.Die Another Day 2002 21.Casino Royale 2006 22.Quantum Of Solace 2008 23.James Bond  23 24.James Bond  24 Not included in  Bondserie or EON Productions Casino Royale 1954 Casino Royale 1967 Never Say Never Again 1983 Producer Albert "Cubby"Broccoli Harry Saltzman Barbara Broccoli Michael G,Wilson Writers to all Bond books Ian Fleming   Amis Kingsley Raymond Benson  John Gardner Charlie Higson Sebastian Faulks Jeffery Deaver Neal Purvis screenwriter Robert Wade screenwriter Bondbooks James Bond actors Barry Nelson Sean Connery George Lazenby Roger Moore Timothy Dalton Pierce Brosnan Daniel Craig James Bond Composers Monty Norman 1 John Barry 11 George Martin 1 Marvin Hamlisch 1 Bill Conti 1 Michael Kamen 1 Eric Serra 1 David Arnold  5 James Bond Music 22 Best Bondsoundtrack Bondgirls Honey Ryder Ursula Andress Britt Ekland  Izabella Scorupco Maud Adams  Kristina Wayborn Mary Stavin  Halle Berry JINX Bond Villians Jaws (Rickard Kiel) Pinewood Studios    Ian Flemings Books Casino Royale (1953) Live And Let Die (1954) Moonraker (1955) Diamonds Are Forever (1956) From Russia With Love (1957) Doctor No (1958) Goldfinger (1959) For Your Eyes Only (1960) Thunderball (1961) The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) You Only Live Twice (1964) The Man With The Golden Gun (1965) Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966) The Royal flatbed typewriters were the only unique design that the Royal company put on the market. But when it came to work horses, the company introduced one price winner after the other for decades. And from the 1930s on, the line included portables. The Quiet De Luxe was the flagship for many years. In the late 1940s Royal had the Quiet De Luxe redesigned by Henry Dreyfuss who came up with the model shown on this page. It is not the kind of machine that deserves a place in a museum for antique typewriters, except that this one is... made of gold. Not solid gold, but plated. The gold-plated machine was produced in a limited edition and sold at a considerable price. Apparently, one of them was owned by author Ian Fleming. Courtesy of: Robert collection Ian Fleming, the father of James Bond Ian Fleming was born in 1908. He was a British writer who wrote books about an English spy called James Bond with the codename 007. The 00 stands for that he’s got license to kill anyone, anytime, anywhere. At the time of his writing the cold war was at its peak.The cold war was also one reason why his books became as successful as they did. Ian Flemming wrote twelve books about the spy James Bond. In 1964 Ian Fleming died and at that time only two James Bond films had been produced. It was the movies that made James Bond famous worldwide. James Bond Actors There’s been five actors playing Mr Bond more than one time: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Many people have different opinions which of them is the real Bond. Most of them say it’s Sean Connery because he was first playing Bond. I think Pierce Brosnan is best as James Bond  James Bond James Bond works for the British government and gets his missions from them. The stories about James Bond are all about how he tricks all his enemies and gets all the nice women. His enemies are often Russian criminals. This seems to be a common action story but the Bond films are special. James Bond is never stressed or scared. Even if he is in a very critical situation like jumping after an aeroplane which is falling to the ground climb into the plane and fly away with it. This seems to be very dangerous but for Mr Bond it’s a piece of cake. At his base in London somewhere he’s got this guy who helps him called Q. He’s participated in almost every bond movie. He produces lots of gadgets in his laboratory, which are supposed to help Mr Bond on his missions. In every film he gets a new car from Q. Q always tells bond to be careful with the car and he’s like yeah yeah and crashes the car in every film. We also have this woman called moneypenny, who seems to be in love with Mr Bond but never gets him. Another classical character in the bond films is one of his enemies who is a very big man called Jaws. He’s got metal teeth and is very strong but he’s not very smart so he always screws up and falls out of aeroplanes without a parachute but always survives. He never says anything and no one knows why. One exemption for that is in the film moonraker when he becomes friend with Mr Bond says cheers with a champagne glass in his hands. Mr Bond also has some things he says in every film like “Hi my name is Bond, James Bond” and “I want dry martini shaken not stirred”. All these things are classical for almost every bond film. Some other classical things in the bond films are all the sponsors that want their names in the film. In the early movies Mr Bond always drove an Aston Martin car but in today’s movies he drives a BMW. He’s always got an Ericsson cellphone and he always drinks Bollinger Champagne. Why did these companies pay money to have their name in the film? Some people have Mr Bond as an idol and they want to be alike him and hopefully they will use the same champagne or the same car as he does. That may sound very farfetched but they actually make more money out of this then they pay for having their name in the films.

First Edition 1953 Ian Fleming James Bond Casino Royale Dominic winter book auctions in Gloucestershire. Ian Flemings book Casino Royale sold for 19000 GBP. Dominic winter book auctions in Gloucestershire. Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st ed., 1st impression, 1953, original. Ian Flemings Literary Career began with Casino Royale, published in 1952, ... 4728 copies were sold within a month, reviews were favourable, and a British ... The 1953 book, which sold for £4,000 more than expected, was the top lot at a sale at which Live and Let Die - the second Bond novel - went for £6,600. A copy of Moonraker, the third in the series, sold for £7,200. Auctioneer Dominic Winter said "the strikingly colourful" Bond first editions had "always been one of the surest certainties over the last 30 years". "The 007 film industry has helped that impetus by drawing in thousands of new fans keen to buy into the James Bond fantasy," he said. It is thought the highest price for a Bond first edition was the £22,750 a signed copy of From Russia With Love fetched at Bloomsbury Auctions in London in 2004. A signed first edition of Casino Royale is believed to have sold for £21,000, also at Bloomsbury, the following year 2005. First attempt: "Scent and smoke and sweat hit the taste buds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning" Second try: "Scent and smoke and sweat can suddenly combine together and hit the taste buds with an acid shock at three o'clock in the morning" Finally (and satisfied): "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning". So began Casino Royale, the first adventure of James Bond, completed in March 1952 and published the following year. Ian Fleming was 43. Although he had experience of journalism, this was his first attempt at a book.   He sent it to his friend, the poet William Plomer, who in turn recommended it to Jonathan Cape, publishers. 4,750 copies were sold within a month, reviews were favourable, and a British cultural hero was born.   Live and Let Die followed the next year, 1954, Moonraker in 1955, and thereafter a Bond title a year was published until Ian Fleming's death in 1964.   Fleming maintained his job at the Sunday Times, where he was foreign manager. He would ask the foreign correspondents, such as Anthony Terry in Berlin, for help with details about, for example, trains or local geography. He contributed a chapter on 'Foreign News' to the Kemsley Manual of Journalism. From 1953 - 6 he wrote the Atticus column in the Sunday Times, writing about a range of obscure incidents and interesting facts and mild gossip.   Keeping true to his promise made at the end of the war, he did return to Jamaica, and he built a modest bungalow in a beautiful position on the North shore. He named it Goldeneye. Somehow he persuaded his employers to allow him 2 months a year off to go to Jamaica, and so it was there, in January and February every year from 1952, that he wrote his novels.   ...while I still do a certain amount of writing in the midst of my London life, it is on my annual visits to Jamaica that all my books have been written. CASINO ROYALE 1953, one of the James Bond first editions    Published by Jonathan Cape in London in 1953, with the essential 'First Published 1953' to the inner page, with no later titles stated, this is not the book club edition, not the US edition and not a later printing - this is the first printing of the  James Bond adventure.   First Edition 1953 Ian Fleming James Bond Casino Royale Only BY IAN FLEMING LONDON PUBLISHED, JONATHAN CAPE 1953   Ian Fleming's 'CASINO ROYALE 1953' published byJonanthan Cape, London 1953. CASINO ROYALE 1953 LIVE AND LET DIE 1954   MOONRAKER (1955) Diamonds Are Forever 1956 From Russia With Love 1957 Doctor No (1958) GOLDFINGER (1959) For Your Eyes Only (1960) THUNDERBALL (1961) THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1962) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) You Only Live Twice (1964) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1965) Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966)   Ian Fleming's James Bond Titles Title Published Film Released  1. Casino Royale 1953 1967 and 2006  2. Live and Let Die 1954 1973  3. Moonraker 1955 1979  4. Diamonds Are Forever 1956 1971  5. From Russia With Love 1957 1963  6. Doctor No 1958 1962  7. Goldfinger 1959 1964  8. For Your Eyes Only (short stories) 1960  From A View To A Kill 1985  For Your Eyes Only 1981  Quantum of Solace 2008  Risico  The Hildebrand Rarity  9. Thunderball 1961 1965  10. The Spy Who Loved Me 1962 1977  11. On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1963 1969  12. You Only Live Twice 1964 1967  13. The Man With The Golden Gun 1965 1974  14. Octopussy & The Living Daylights (short stories) 1966  Octopussy 1983  The Living Daylights 1987  The Property Of A Lady  Ian Fleming's Non-Bond books Title Published Film released  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1964 1968  Thrilling Cities 1963  The Diamond Smugglers 1957  James Bond, the Author The Origin of the Name James Bond "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could think of. James Bond seemed perfect." -Ian Fleming While he may be the world's most famous, glamorous secret agent, let's face it, his name is pretty dull. In a way it is fitting, Fleming achieved exactally what he wanted to with the name. He actually found it sitting on his bookshelf in the author of a book entitled "Bird's Of The West Indies." And like that, history was made! James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond.

Published 13th April 1953 by Jonathan Cape in London CASINO ROYALE 1953 Published in 1953 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth & red lettering & heart on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1953" Dust wrapper priced at 10s.6d Rear panel has pencil drawing of Ian Fleming by Bartlett, with blurb about Fleming's life below Front flap has blurb with jacket credit immediately below There should be NO Times review Rear flap is blank but for title, author, Cape & price in bottom left corner 4,728 copies were bound up, a large number of which went to public libraries Published 5th May 1954 by Jonathan Cape in London LIVE AND LET DIE 1954   Published in 1954 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth & gilt lettering & gilt medallion on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1954" Dust wrapper priced at 10s.6d There are 3 states of 1st edition dust wrappers First State : No credit for jacket design on front flap Second State : 2 line credit is positioned midway between blurb end & price Third State : 2 line credit is positioned directly under the blurb 7,500 copies were printed of the 1st edition Published 7th April 1955 by Jonathan Cape in London MOONRAKER 1955 Published in 1955 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth & silver lettering Verso title page states "First Published 1955" Dust wrapper priced at 10s.6d There is a "semi issue point" Page 10 last line shoot / shoo No priority established but I believe shoot to be preferable There are also 2 paper thicknesses One text block measures 19mm whilst the other is 15mm The 15mm is poorer quality and prone to browning The 1st print run was 9,900 copies Published 26th March 1956 by Jonathan Cape in London Diamonds Are Forever 1956 Published in 1956 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth & silver lettering Verso title page states "First Published 1956" Dust wrapper priced at 12s.6d The 1st print run was 14,700 copies Published 8th April 1957 by Jonathan Cape in London From Russia With Love 1957 Published in 1957 by Jonathan Cape in London Black decorated cloth Verso title page states "First Published 1957" Dustwrapper priced at 13s.6d The 1st set of sheets were of poor print quality and rejected by Cape These were later sent to the book club This means that, theoretically, the '1st printing' is the book club edition Note: The Cape sheets have Cape name and logos on title page Those with 'Book Club' are later printings and the above does not apply The Cape edition was published first, and is the first edition The 1st print run was 15,000 copies Published 31st March 1958 by Cape in London Dr No (1958) Published in 1958 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth with or without "dancing girl" figure Verso title page states "First Published 1958" Dust jacket priced at 13s.6d There is no priority established for the dancing girl From experience, the ones without the figure appear to be rarer The 1st print run was 20,000 copies Published 23rd March 1959 by Jonathan Cape in London GOLDFINGER 1959 Published in 1959 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth gilt lettering , skull embossed on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1959" Dustwrapper priced at 15s The 1st print run was 24,000 copies Published 11th April 1960 by Jonathan Cape in London For Your Eyes Only (1960) Published in 1960 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, gilt lettering , eye design on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1960" Dust wrapper priced at 15s The 1st print run was 21,712 copies Published 27th March 1961 by Jonathan Cape in London THUNDERBALL (1961) Published in 1961 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, gilt lettering , skeletal hand on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1961" Dust wrapper priced at 15s The 1st print run was 50,938 copies Published 16th April 1962 by Jonathan Cape in London THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1962) Published in 1962 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, silver lettering , with a dagger on the front board Verso title page states "First Published 1962" Dust wrapper priced at 15s There are copies with a quad mark between the E & M of Fleming on the title page This mark is not on the proof sheets and was just a spacer that worked loose during the print run No priority officially established and not of bibliographical importance, but copies with quad mark are very much scarcer and consequently fetch a premium The 1st print run was 30,000 copies Published 1st April 1963 by Jonathan Cape in London On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) Published in 1963 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, silver lettering , track design on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1963" Dust wrapper priced at 16s The 1st print run was 45,000 copies There is a signed limited edition of this title 250 numbered copies - but unnumbered copies also turn up Jonathan Cape's records suggest there should be approx 43 unnumbered Ten of these were given to Ian Fleming the rest intended as presentation copies The 1st print run was 45,000 copies Published 16th March 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London You Only Live Twice (1964) Published in 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, silver lettering , Japanese lettering on front board Verso title page states "First Published 1964" Note: "First Published March 1964" is second state Dust wrapper priced at 16s The 1st print run was 56,000 copies Published 1st April 1965 by Jonathan Cape in London THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1965) Published in 1965 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, gilt lettering Verso title page states "First Published 1965" Copies exist with a gun in gilt on the front boards  Dust wrapper priced at 18s The 1st print run was 82,000 copies Published 23rd June 1966 by Jonathan Cape in London Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966) Published in 1966 by Jonathan Cape in London Black cloth, gilt lettering Verso title page states "First Published 1966" This title was repriced in order to clear remaining copies Contrary to popular opinion it was not actually remaindered A London bookseller bought the last 32,000 copies directly. He gradually sold them for £1.50 each Copies with unclipped jackets and no signs of a price sticker are preferred Dust wrapper priced at 10s.6d The 1st print run was 50,000 copies