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[Blofeld's Cat]

Probably the only non-Bond Bond related book there is (you know what I mean ), so I was wondering if anyone owns a copy?

Does anyone actually own a copy of the 1936 first edition?

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

I've seen some of the later editions on ebay, never a first though.... There is a 5th edition on there now I believe.

[Qwerty]

I've been trying for quite a while to track this one down.

[IndyB007]

I've got a copy of this somewhere... it's a hardcover w/ dustjacket from the 70's I believe.... I think it is the same edition as in one of those making of documentaries they have on the DVDs, but I'm not to certain right now....

[trs007]

Not a first edition, but I do have a copy adorning one of my Bond cabinets.

[zencat]

I'm ashamed to say that I don't. Whenever I think about getting a copy, just for the collection, I figure there's no point in just getting any copy, it would have to be the same edition Fleming had, mint in dust-jacket, and I guess somewhere between "I should just grab a copy" and "I need to do a major search for a mint original" it just slips off my list of things to do. But I think I will commit to getting one. I'd like to put in on my shelf of first editions before Casino Royale because, in it's own way, this was the "beginning" of "James Bond."

So which edition is the exact edition Fleming had again?

[Red Grant]

I don't have a copy of this book but I do have "How 007 Got His Name" by Mrs. James Bond - a slim volume detailing the events which lead up to the meeting between James Bond and Ian Fleming on 5th Feb 1964. The only time Fleming actually met "James Bond". There is a copy of a letter from IF to JB and a photo of the meeting (although this was also documented on one of the DVD docs).

[Qwerty]

I should probably know this, but is it still in print today?

[License To Kill]

I should probably know this, but is it still in print today?

I would imagine so.

[Qwerty]

I should probably know this, but is it still in print today?

I would imagine so.

Cool. I had just wondered, as I sometimes remember to look for it. I'm trying to get one of the older versions.

[Brix Bond]

I found it on amazon not long ago but I'm afraid that it was in paperback only.

[Blofeld's Cat]

I'd like to put in on my shelf of first editions before Casino Royale because, in it's own way, this was the "beginning" of "James Bond."

Yes, it would have to be the only place to put this book.

So which edition is the exact edition Fleming had again?

You know, I've always assumed he had the first edition for some reason. An old, dusty, well-read, moth-eaten thing of a book that helped him give his hero a plain boring name.

[Simon]

I wonder where the majority of that book's market has come from over the years. Betting a pound to a pinch something the majority of sales has been by non bird loving Bond fanatic completists.

[Righty007]

Just won this edition.

Does anybody know which edition Ian Fleming had?

[Righty007]

Just won this edition.

Does anybody know which edition Ian Fleming had?

Here's the cover:

[Righty007]

Got it in the mail today.

[Righty007]

Got it in the mail today.

I was flipping through my edition (published in the mid-1940s) recently and it appears to have once been the property of George H. Breiding, a well-known naturalist and teacher from West Virginia.

On the first page, he wrote that be bought the book while in Iowa in the 1940s and then mentioned going to college at Ohio State University. Finally, he talks about how he took the book on a trip to Puerto Rico in 1989. Throughout the book, he noted which birds he came across while on the trip, dating each entry. There are even a few entries for March 7, 1989 - the day I was born!

While the book's condition isn't that great, the writings inside by George H. Breiding make the book extremely valuable to me!

By the way, when I purchased it from eBay a year ago, I had no idea it would have the writing inside so I really lucked out.