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[dennisbolt]

For those of you who have muliplt sets of the books (ie: different paperback publisher versions) how do you shelve them?

Do you keep the title together (all goldfinger, but pan, bantam, penguin publishers)

Do you shelve them by publisher so they have consistant design.

I am interested in other shelving tidbits as well. I have almost complete collections of most of the more common publishing states, and have kept them togehter by publsiher/style.

[[dark]]

I only have doubles of four books, so I keep them just on the shelf below.

Otherwise, I order them from my Penguin Flemings, my Pan Colonel Sun and my Coronet Gardners and Bensons.

I'm curious as to how people order their novelisations. Personally, I put them in with the regular novels in chronological order.

[Mister Asterix]

I have a bamboo cabinet that my wife gave me for my birthday because it looks like something that would fit right in with the rest of the furniture in Goldeneye.

I keep my Fleming and Amis paperbacks together by title and the Fleming hardbacks and together by title in the top section of the cabinet. The new U.S. Penguin editions are kept in order in the top section too.

In the bottom section, I keep the my Gardner and Benson hardbacks together by title and then the paperbacks by title. I also keep my Bond comics and Bond related Life magazines in the bottom.

My Bond related Playboy magazines are kept on the top shelf of the bedroom closet, out of the reach of tiny hands.

[Jriv71]

You have tiny hands?

[Loomis]

Originally posted by [dark]

I'm curious as to how people order their novelisations.  Personally, I put them in with the regular novels in chronological order.  

I don't. I own only two of the novelizations ("Tomorrow Never Dies" and "Die Another Day"), but I consider them different to Benson's other books. They're not his stories, and don't they contradict the events of his original novels? Wouldn't the Bond of "Die Another Day" have been in a North Korean prison at the time the Bond of "The Man With the Red Tattoo" was in Japan? That said, I believe there's a Gardner novel that contains references to events in his "Licence to Kill" novelization, so it appears that there has been at least one attempt to tie the Bond of a novelization to the Bond of a series of continuation novels. Still, I order my Bensons from "Zero Minus Ten" to TMWTRT, with the novelizations following TMWTRT.

I keep my Flemings and Bensons on different shelves, since I don't consider the Bensons as being part of a single series started by the Flemings. I view Benson as a totally separate series, ditto Gardner (although I don't own any Gardner books - I'd been eagerly awaiting the "Licence Renewed"/"For Special Services"/"Icebreaker" reprint that was announced recently, but it doesn't look like it's happening:().

I don't own a copy of "Colonel Sun", either, but if I did it would be the only post-Fleming novel I'd put right next to my Flemings.

[Mister Asterix]

Originally posted by Jriv71
You have tiny hands?

No, but some tiny people in the house do.

[Jriv71]

I know, just kidding. I have four tiny hands, myself, and two more on the way for X-Mas.

[Mister Asterix]

Forgot to say that I keep the novelisation seperate in the lower section.

Originally posted by Jriv71
I know, just kidding.  I have four tiny hands, myself, and two more on the way for X-Mas.

Oh, so you’ve seen the miniture people too. My shrink said it was just in my mind. I guess this proves him wrong.

[Jriv71]

Yes, they live under the stairs. (Aaaahhhh, the 80's...)

[zencat]

First and foremost I have all first editions together, even if they are from different sets. Ditto for movie cover editions. After that, I keep them all within their own sets.

I often thought of changing this around, all editions of Casino Royale together, all Licence Renewed together, etc...could be interesting. But I like seeing sets together.

[Jriv71]

I always assumed you had a personal assistant to handle that stuff. (I say that with envy about your collection.)

[The JB Shop]

I have my 180 books first separated by english or swedish. Then I have them by sice and publisher.

My Pan books i Have by spine, like Redones, blue ones and so on. The Movie tie ins stand for them self.

Regards

Stephan

[Turn]

I've got all my movie tie-ins together by release order. Then I have my Flemings also by movie order since it was just easier to remember them that way as opposed to publishing order. My Gardners are in order by publishing date, though.

My film books are rather random and arranged more by size and on a different shelf.

[Xenobia]

Originally posted by dennisbolt
how do you shelve them?

Carefully. :-D

My collection is just starting, so it takes up just one shelf in my bookcase. But it is the shelf at eye level.

I keep all my "Guide" books together, and those I have shelved in alaphabetical order, with any duplicates kept in another place. I keep the novelizations and "Making of" books separate, and in order by which film came first, second, third...etc.

I only own the Fleming novels so far, and those I keep in order of publication. I happen to own graphic versions of FYEO and CR, and those I use to divide between the novelizations and the Fleming novels, just because they are taller.

I have Volume I of the two volume cinematic FYEO comic book, and I keep that with my magazine collection upstairs in my room.

-- Xenobia

[dennisbolt]

Turn-I am a bigger fan of the novels, but even I cannot name the exact order they were published in (begining and end I can), while I can remember the order the films came out-funny that. Having said that, I doubt I would order the novels by their film dates, since the novels are so different.

[zencat]

Ah, release order vs book order. Now that gets a bit tricky. I do have my 1st edition paperbacks lined up as the came out, which is not necessarily the correct order of the books (DAD paperback comes before TMWTRT paperback for instance). Novelizations are in movie order, not book order, which is the release order. Sets are in book order, not release order. Confused yet?

[zencat]

Here's a guide for your US Fleming paperback firsts in order of release:

You Asked For It (Casino Royale) - Popular Library - April 1955
Live and Let Die - Perma Books - June 1956
Too Hot To Handle (Moonraker) - Perma Books - Dec. 1956
Diamonds are Forever - Perma Books - Sept. 1957
From Russia with Love - Signet - Sept. 1958
Doctor No - Signet - June 1959
*Live and Let Die - 1st Signet - Oct. 1959
*Casino Royale (first edition under correct title) - Signet - Feb. 1960
Goldfinger - Signet - June 1960
*Moonraker (first edition under correct title - Signet - Oct. 1960
For Your Eyes Only - Signet - June 1961
*Diamonds are Forever - 1st Signet - 1st Signet series cover - Nov. 1961)
Thunderball - Signet - May 1962
The Spy Who Loved Me - Signet - April 1963
On Her Majesty

[jwheels]

I put mine in cronoligical order. With the different copies, I just put them together with the others i.e. all casino royale, all live and let die ect.
I also put the novelizations in with the rest, but I put TWINE before HTTK because after that Bond has a head injury and couldn't have done the things in TWINE during that period. I also put DAD after TMWTRT

[Simon]

Originally posted by zencat
Ah, release order vs book order. Now that gets a bit tricky. I do have my 1st edition paperbacks lined up as the came out, which is not necessarily the correct order of the books (DAD paperback comes before TMWTRT paperback for instance). Novelizations are in movie order, not book order, which is the release order. Sets are in book order, not release order. Confused yet?

Have you seen High Fidelity?

[zencat]

Yes! And I know exactly what you

[Simon]

[quote]Originally posted by zencat
Meticulous collection

[dennisbolt]

Here is another question: Do you put your signed copies (if you have them) in with the rest or separately?

I have almost all Benson signed-he is a pretty prolific signer, and he also sells on ebay!! If you have signed Fleming, then you probably have a vault, so it is mute point!!!!

[zencat]

Signed books are with the firsts. I have one signed Fleming (limited edition of OHMSS), almost all the Gardner books signed, and all the Benson books inscribed to me.

[The JB Shop]

Zencat..... WOW:eek::eek::eek:

[Blue Eyes]

In fact, I think I need to rent that movie again.

Read the book. Far superior to the film.

[James Boldman]

Originally posted by [dark]
I only have doubles of four books, so I keep them just on the shelf below.

I have doubles of 10 Fleming novels and I have the rest anyway (including all Gardners, Amis's Colonel Sun and all Bensons) all but The Man With The Red Tattoo (which I have read) and the novelizations of D.A.D., GoldenEye and The Spy Who Loved Me.

But basically I just have them in order: for example the first few go like this:
Casino Royale, Casino Royale, Live And Let Die, Live And Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, From Russia With Love, From Russia With Love, Doctor No, Doctor No, Goldfinger, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, You Only Live Twice, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Man With The Golden Gun, Octopussy, Octopussy, Colonel Sun, Licence Renewed etc.

[flares]

I have all my originals on a shelf in no particular order. I have all my doubles on a huge pile on the floor. If anyone wants them (one per person), they can have them at the cost of sending. e-mail me at [email protected]

[Matt Sherman]

I have had all the Capes together but ran out of room on that shelf. The
Flemings, the Gardners, the Woods, "Poker Player", Book of Bond, Chitty-Chitty, etc.

The firsts that were Hodder & Staughton go on another shelf, from Gardner through Benson. I groove to all the pretty colored spines!

A bottom shelf holds ephemera, large books like Dressed To Kill and Essential Bond, oversized photo and scrapbook albums, comics in bound book form, etc.

"...And here's something I'm particularly proud of..." and it's not stinger missiles! I have a whole shelf of Bond books that never had a dustjacket but either a leather or fake leather cover or were firsts or even paperbacks rebound in leather or another cover. You may have seen the rebound Pans I won recently on eBay, for example.

I will make someone VERY happy in trade or sales if you can add to this collection. Maybe you have some Bond titles that are in a leather or leatherette binding that I don't have? I saw some of these first at Steve Kulakoski's house and again at Zencat's place. Zencat does have an AMAZING book collection including a jillion paperbacks and some highly luscious firsts. Whoa!

I have another shelf of oddment paperbacks I like, Too Hot to Handle, You Asked For It, a Hungarian YOLT, an oversized Italian FS Services, Scandanavian TND, a signed Chinese High Time to Kill, that sort of thing.

I have a sixth shelf of all the British book clubs including Life of Fleming, Colonel Sun and LICENCE TO KILL (!), the new Penguin paperbacks, etc.

A few props and models jazz up the book displays and nearby posters, mylars and a table of props add pizzazz.

I try to keep sets together in chronological order but could really use different shelving to do it right. I have four added racks of Bond comics from the 60's and magazines with the emphasis on the magazines being that friends or I were the contributors or creators.

Keep me posted on those doubles you have of leatherette Bonds and Swedish books! -Matt