Fay Dalton interview by the Folio Society
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The following text is from the "Folio" magazine spring 2019.  Fay Dalton, illustrator of Folios hugely successful James Bond series, says her work is inspired by the "original masters" - and the love of her massive dog.  From Moscow streets to Jamaican beaches, the James Bond novels revel in their glamorous locations. And although illustrator Fay Dalton lives and works in the slightly less sexy Harrow in west London she´s surrounded by inspiration in her studio. The walls of the large ground-floor room are covered with movie posters including Jason Edmiston´s Hateful Eight and La ..read more
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Up next from THE FOLIO SOCIETY
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Illustration ©Fay Dalton 2021 from The Folio Society edition of The Man with the Golden Gun The Folio Society have a new James Bond novel coming out to day (October 12 - 2021). It is Ian Flemings last novel THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN that is up for release. A book Ian Fleming sadly never got to finish due to his early death on August 12 1964 during filming of Goldfinger.  The novel was first released on April 1 1965 and it is said that since Fleming himself could not finish more then the first draft, Author Kingsley Amis stepped in and completed the book for p ..read more
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Next from The Folio Society - You only live twice
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  Illustration ©Fay Dalton 2021 form The Folio Society edition of You Only Live Twice. Text added by James Bond - The Secret Agent blog.  The eleventh volume in The Folio Society’s spectacular James Bond series sees the agent fighting not only for his life, but for his very livelihood. The last book to be published before Ian Fleming died, You Only Live Twice contains everything that makes a Bond novel so thrilling: exotic locations, glamorous women, grotesque villains – while also revealing a little more of what makes the agent tick.   Fay Dalton continues her da ..read more
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Did Brosnan buy Flemings golden typewriter?
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  When Ian Fleming was writing his first James Bond novel CASINO ROYALE back in 1953 he was so satisfied with being done with the first draft that he ordered a golden typewriter from Royal typewriter company in New York at the price of $174. He then asked his friend Ivar Bryce to deliver it to him the next time he was visiting Jamaica.  I believe that it is said that Fleming wrote all his novels on his golden typewriter but looking at pictures both from Jamaica and England it is obvious that Fleming uses different typewriters during the years. Maybe he did write the Bond novels on ..read more
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This is what James Bond collecting is all about (for good or worse)
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 When collecting James Bond, most of us feel the need to be a completist. Living in Sweden the only local collectables are movie posters and books. For many years I thought that my Swedish book collection was complete. I have every edition of every James Bond book released in Sweden.  But when I showed a photo of my Casino Royal from 1965 a blog reader living in Sweden contacted me saying that his copy was spelled more correctly Casino Royale also released in 1965.  It is obvious that the misspelled version was released first. My guess is that is was printed in more numbers t ..read more
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Folio Society has released CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
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James Bond author Ian Fleming was hospitalized for living a way to hard of a life after High court trials regarding the book release of Thunderball. At the hospital he came up with an idea for a children's book for his son Casper. That book became three volumes and was called Chitty chitty bang bang.  The first out of three volumes came out on October 22 1964. Sadly Ian Fleming never had a chance to live long enough to see them published since he died on August 12th 1964.  When the book was released it also carried drawings by John Burningham. 56 years later Folio Society has rele ..read more
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Fantastic Sean Connery book covers
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It was with deep sorrow every Bond fan across the globe learnt that the first (and to many the best) James Bond, Sean Connery passed away on October 31th, 2020. He reached the age of 90 and had a very long and successful career from the day he signed on to play James Bond in Ian Fleming's DR. NO.  To honor his memory I wanted to share some fantastic Ian Fleming book covers from Sweden. They were released during 1965 in a series called "Zebra special" and had all paintings of Sean Connery on the cover. The paintings were done by Yrjö Edelmann (1941-2016) and are just fantastic to loo ..read more
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Folio Society finally release ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
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  Illustration ©2020 Fay Dalton from The Folio Society edition of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Finally the day has come when Folio Society decided to release Ian Fleming´s ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE in their series of James Bond books.  We are a lot of fans of James Bond who favours On her majesty's secret service both as a book and a movie. that's the reason I say "finally". The wait has been long and many people just like I has thought that the next book will be it.  But now it is finally here and many of the drawings looks better than anticipated ..read more
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AMAZING Signed "Golden gun" up for auction
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4y ago
 You could understand both complete joy and happiness when finally a signed first edition of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN from Jonathan Cape surface on the auction market.  Not that I want one. I most certainly don't. But only for the chear joy that an auction house could make such a big mistake.  Most James Bond fans knows a lot about Agent 007 but less amount of people know about Ian Fleming and his books.  THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN was Ian Fleming's last novel. Sadly he was not able to finish the novel. Some claim that Fleming wrote the first draft and that Kingsley A ..read more
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Ian Fleming: Bust sold for £1250
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4y ago
In October 2019 a bust of Ian Fleming was offered at auction by Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers. The bust sold for £1000 plus 25% commission coming to an end price of £1250.  The bust was first used on the cover artwork for John Pearson's Fleming biography “The Life of Ian Fleming” (Jonathan Cape, 1966). It was then reproduced in small numbers for distribution to the larger book shops across Great Britain, to be used as window decoration when promoting both the biography and Fleming's own James Bond novels. The size of the bust is 52 cm. Not only was the bust seen on the first edition of ..read more
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