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[zencat]

For Special Services...

[zencat]

Nobody Lives Forever...

I keep getting a database error when I try to post ROH. Maybe I'll email this one to you...or try later.

[Hawkeye]

Thanks Zencat. FSS & NLF look great. I couldn't get ROH to work from my e-mail though. i just got the little red cross again. The thing is, i have no idea why? If you can get it to post in the forum that would be grand. Perhaps my e-mail server can't handle a certain size or type of file. I'll have to contact the helpline.

Hawkeye.

PS. Got a reply from Ian Fleming Publications to a Q. i sent in july. Omnibus IS HOPEFULLY coming out EARLY 2004. I'm kind of hoping they'll release the omnibus to test the water and then release them as single volumes again.

[zencat]

Trying ROH again at 150dpi.

[Triton]

Originally posted by Hawkeye
Thanks Zencat. FSS & NLF look great. I couldn't get ROH to work from my e-mail though. i just got the little red cross again. The thing is, i have no idea why? If you can get it to post in the forum that would be grand. Perhaps my e-mail server can't handle a certain size or type of file. I'll have to contact the helpline.

Hawkeye.

PS. Got a reply from Ian Fleming Publications to a Q. i sent in july. Omnibus IS HOPEFULLY coming out EARLY 2004. I'm kind of hoping they'll release the omnibus to test the water and then release them as single volumes again.

Omnibus? An Omnibus of John Gardner novels? Which titles?

[Hawkeye]

Omnibus is meant to have LICENCE RENEWED, FOR SPECIAL SERVICES & ICEBREAKER. In some ways i'm dissapointed, i'd sooner buy them as seperate novels. You get more cover designs that way. Perhaps they'll use the omnibus to test the water for subsequent single volume releases. Good sales might get them released seperately. Although why people would buy single volumes after buying the omnibus i don't know. Even if i would do that. perhaps they're counting on people like me who'll buy both.

Hawkeye.

[Hawkeye]

Zencat;

150 dpi ROH came out great. Cheers for taking the time to scan those for me.

Oh, and ChandlerBing - another M*A*S*H fan i see. Ok here's one for you;

PA ANNOUNCEMENT: "We regret to announce that due to circumstances beyond our control, lunch is now being served in the mess tent".

Hawkeye.


PS. DiLibrisnow - MTTS is in the fanfiction section of CBn.

[DLibrasnow]

Thanks Hawkeye!!

[Hawkeye]

Zencat,

Could you describe to me what the spines and back covers of the first 5 Gardners look like? Im guessing the wood motif is carried round am i right? but does any of the picture get shown on the back and spine too and how does the authors name and book title get written on the spine? Is it the same as on the front cover just GARDNER & ROLE OF HONOUR etc? And are the same fonts used throughout?

Reason i ask is i'm thinking of doing myself some dust jackets of original artwork for my paperbacks so i need to know what back and spine look like in order to recreate them from the covers you posted for me.

Hawkeye.

[Qwerty]

I remember the first time I read this novel, (I was lucky enough to have all the Gardner's, so I could read them in order), I loved it. I truly think Gardner was in his prime with his first 5 Bond novels, and Icebreaker is no exception. One of my personal favorites of his.

Here's to 20 years of double crosses, triple crosses, girls, villains, did I mention double crosses?

[zencat]

Originally posted by Hawkeye
Zencat,

Could you describe to me what the spines and back covers of the first 5 Gardners look like? Im guessing the wood motif is carried round am i right? but does any of the picture get shown on the back and spine too and how does the authors name and book title get written on the spine? Is it the same as on the front cover just GARDNER & ROLE OF HONOUR etc? And are the same fonts used throughout?

Reason i ask is i'm thinking of doing myself some dust jackets of original artwork for my paperbacks so i need to know what back and spine look like in order to recreate them from the covers you posted for me.

Hawkeye.

Yes, the wood motif carriers over to the spine with the same font -- but the back is a full picture of Gardner. Here's a pic.

[zencat]

A better look at the spines...

[Qwerty]

I've always thought that the wood motif on the Gardner first editions is really classy. I'm especially fond of Licence Renewed. It's nothing over the top, but it works very well. Ahhh, my next spending venture, the Gardner first editons.

[Hawkeye]

Thanks Zen,

Sorry for not replying earlier but i've been feeling a bit rough since sat night. Some kind of freshers Plague from uni methinks. Thing is, i've gone and got the bugger twice. Next stop the Doctors...

Pictures are great and a real help. Thanks for going to the trouble. I am green with envy here, you must have quite the bond collection. I've gotta know; did you buy these when they first came out or have you hunted them down since?

I saw a complpete set of 1st ed Gardner Bonds, each signed, in immaculate condition and in a box on abebooks.com.

A whopping

[zencat]

Originally posted by Hawkeye
. I've gotta know; did you buy these when they first came out or have you hunted them down since?

I started seriously collecting in the late '80s...86 or 87. I had to "hunt" down all the books up to No Deals Mr. Bond, but from that point on I was able to buy mint, signed copies when they came out. I'm glad I started when I did. Except for a 1st Casino and the limited OHMSS, all the Fleming books were under $500 back then.

[Hawkeye]

You've escaped paying the kings ransom required these days then. The best of my collection, so far as being worth anything, are my two signed Benson books. TFOD and the bedside companion. Alas both are paperbacks, and Bedside is the publishing on line one, but it's nice to have something inscribed to you. I do have a signed first edition of Ben Elton's POPCORN from when i met him in the bar at the playhouse in Nottingham on the opening night of the stage version. That's my most prized book.

Hawkeye.