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[stamper]

I'm getting hold currently of many Gardners 007 first editions on hardcover, and I'm surprised that Licence Renewed For Special Services and Icebreaker are elegant, slim volumes, with neatly small type, while I others like No deals mister Bond, and later ones, come only in huge heavy volumes with big type for people who are myopics but don't wear glasses. I got them off ebay for cheap, but thought these were all similar in size and I was wrong.

Does the entire series exists, in the early version, ie slim volumes, hardcover with jacket, small type ?

Are the other first editions I got just club versions ? Thanks if anyone knows, I'm kinda lost here, and websites don't help because we only see the covers reproduced

Edited by stamper, 29 July 2006 - 07:11 PM.

[zencat]

Well, the first 4 Gardner are, in comparison, slimmer than some of the later books. They suddenly get very fat with Nobody Loves Forever. But it's likely you've got a mix there of regular editions and book club editions, because book clubs I would definitely call "slim."

Many of the Gardener books were done in these slim book club editions (even the fat books went slim in these versions) but not all.

[Qwerty]

Many of the Gardener books were done in these slim book club editions (even the fat books went slim in these versions) but not all.

Do you know which ones aren't, John?

[zencat]

Many of the Gardener books were done in these slim book club editions (even the fat books went slim in these versions) but not all.

Do you know which ones aren't, John?

My book clubs are in storgae so I don't know for sure, but I don't think I was ever able to find a Never Send Flowers, SeaFire, and Cold Fall.

[Qwerty]

Gotcha. The regular US hardcover of Cold Fall is pretty slim too I've noticed.

[zencat]

Gotcha. The regular US hardcover of Cold Fall is pretty slim too I've noticed.

Yes, it looks just like a book club!

[Qwerty]

Gotcha. The regular US hardcover of Cold Fall is pretty slim too I've noticed.

Yes, it looks just like a book club!

Definitely. That's what I first thought when I got one off eBay a while back.

[Gri007]

Not to sure where exactly to put this. With any reprints of Gardner novels being a qeustion that nobody knows the answer to. I've decided that after I've got the three Viking hardbacks of the Fleming era, I'll go on to collecting the US hardback editions of the Gardner novels that were published by Putnam. This is becuse the covers are quite good and seem to be the same design and layout.

[Qwerty]

I find that the Viking hardbacks of those Fleming reprints are really difficult to come by (where as the paperbacks which use the same cover art can be found pretty much everywhere in that 14 set box).

[Gri007]

I only need 3 hardbacks to get. YOLT and TLD are allegedly available on amazon for

[Qwerty]

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