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CASINO ROYALE	LIVE AND LET DIE	MOONRAKER	DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
First published 23rd March 1954 in New York by The Macmillan Company	First published April 1955 in New York by The Macmillan Company	First published 20th September 1955 in New York by The Macmillan Company	First published October 1956 in New York by The Macmillan Company
Dark olive-green cloth boards printed in red on front cover with the outline of a diamond shape containing the title in lower case type	Dark blue cloth boards with title printed in yellow on spine. Publisher's ‘A COCK ROBIN THRILLER’ device on bottom right of front board.	Mint-green cloth boards with title printed in black on front cover and a single crescent motif	Light-grey cloth boards with title printed in red lower case italics on front cover and a black diamond motif
Dust jacket designed by Leo Manso	Dust jacket designed by Leo Manso	Dust jacket designed by Leo Manso	Dust jacket designed by H. Lawrence Hoffman
Dust jacket priced at $2.75	Dust jacket priced $3.00	Dust jacket priced $2.75	Dust jacket priced $2.75


FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE	DOCTOR NO	GOLDFINGER	FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
First published September 1957 in New York by The Macmillan Company	First published 24th June 1958 in New York by The Macmillan Company	First published 18th August 1959 in New York by The Macmillan Company	First published May 1960 in New York by The Viking Press
Beige cloth boards with title printed in black tea-chest type on front cover	Black cloth boards with title printed in red on front cover	Black cloth, gilt lettering with skull stamped on front board with gilt coins embossed into the eye-sockets	Mid-green and canary-yellow cloth boards with publisher's ‘Viking Longboat’ device in red
Dust jacket devised by Ian Fleming and executed by Richard Chopping	Dust jacket designed by H. Lawrence Hoffman	Dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping	Dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping
Dust jacket priced at $3.50	Dust jacket priced at $3.50	Dust jacket priced at $3.00	Dust jacket priced at $3.50


THUNDERBALL	THE SPY WHO LOVED ME	ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE	YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
First published 24th April 1961 in New York by The Viking Press	First published 16th April 1962 in New York by The Viking Press	First published September 1963 in New York by The New American Library	First published August 1964 in New York by The New American Library
Canary-yellow cloth boards with publisher's ‘Viking Longboat’ device in red to the bottom right hand corner	Orange-brown cloth boards	Quarter Black cloth board over mid-blue paper-covered boards with author's facsimile signature angled in black	Yellow cloth over boards with author's facsimile signature angled in red
Dust jacket designed by S. A. Summit, Incorporated	Dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping	Dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon	Dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon
Dust jacket priced at $3.95	Dust jacket priced at $3.95	Dust jacket priced at $4.50	Dust jacket priced at $4.50

THE JAMES BOND NOVELS
US Omnibus Editions


GILT-EDGED BONDS	MORE GILT-EDGED BONDS	BONDED FLEMING	THE BOND FILES VOLUME 1
First published 24th July 1961 in New York by The Macmillan Company	First published August 1965 in New York by The Macmillan Company	First published 23rd October 1965 in New York by The Viking Press	First published 2007 in New York by Book-of-the-Month Club
CASINO ROYALE FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE DR. NO	LIVE AND LET DIE MOONRAKER DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER	THUNDERBALL THE SPY WHO LOVED ME FOR YOUR EYES ONLY	CASINO ROYALE LIVE AND LET DIE MOONRAKER
Dust jacket designed by Leo Manso featuring THUNDERBALL artwork by Richard Chopping	Dust jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin	Dust jacket designed by Al Cetta	Dust jacket designed by Roseanne Serra and Richie Fahey
Dust jacket priced at $4.95	Dust jacket priced at $5.75	Dust jacket priced at $5.75	Produced by arrangement with Penguin Books

THE JAMES BOND NOVELS
Second Macmillan printings

For their second printing Macmillan reissued the first seven novels on 17th January 1966, all priced at $3.95 and featuring new dust jackets designed Jerome Kuhl (1927-2016). The novels were all subtitled ‘A James Bond Mystery’ on the front cover, with same brief biography and photograph of author Ian Fleming featured on the rear of each dust jacket. It is interesting to note that the Macmillan reissue of DOCTOR NO reverted to the UK abbreviated title, and is the only US hardcover edition with this title. The only other American printing of the novel to bear the UK title was the 2012 Thomas & Mercer Paperbacks edition.

THE JAMES BOND NOVELS
Book Club Editions

Eight James Bond novels were published in the USA by the Book Club as part of the ‘Dollar Mystery Guild’ series in August 1965. They had uniform covers and were issued many times well into the 1970s, far outselling any other hardcover editions of the novels in the USA. Alternate coloured covers exist for all titles, and others with the Walther PPK silhouette filled in white. All titles (with the exception of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER) have the same rear cover featuring a brief outline of Ian Fleming's pre-Bond career, accompanied by photographer Dan Wynn's (1920-1995) portrait of the author. The Book club added THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN to the series in 1966. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1956) was also issued in hardback by the Book Club in 1971 as a tie-in with Sean Connery's comeback film as James Bond, and featuring the film poster artwork by Robert McGinnis on the dust jacket, with film credits on the rear.


CASINO ROYALE August 1965	MOONRAKER August 1965	FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE August 1965	DOCTOR NO August 1965

GOLDFINGER August 1965	THUNDERBALL August 1965	THE SPY WHO LOVED ME August 1965	YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE August 1965

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN 1966	Rear cover identical on all Book Club editions	DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER 1971

THE JAMES BOND NOVELS
MJF Books ‘The James Bond Classic Library’


MOONRAKER January 1994	GOLDFINGER January 1994	CASINO ROYALE March 1994	FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE March 1994

DOCTOR NO May 1994	THUNDERBALL May 1994	LIVE AND LET DIE May 1995	DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER May 1995

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY July 1995	THE SPY WHO LOVED ME July 1995	ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE October 1995	YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE October 1995

A James Bond Omnibus Volume 1 April 1997	A James Bond Omnibus Volume 2 April 1997	James Bond Omnibus Volume 1 Second printing	James Bond Omnibus Volume 2 Second printing

New York publisher Michael J. Fine acquired the rights to publish the first twelve James Bond books in the USA, but could not secure THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN and OCTOPUSSY so the series was incomplete. The colourful dust jackets were designed by Richard Rossiter, with illustrations by Christopher Blumrich. The books were issued as the ‘James Bond Classic Library’ collection, and although no price was printed on the dust jacket they were affordable mid-range editions. Two omnibus editions were later published in April 1997, followed by a second printing with different photographic dust jackets featuring a tinted female torso in a bikini accompanied by an automatic pistol and a martini glass.

JAMES BOND NOVELS BY OTHER AUTHORS - First US printings

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