Looking forward to your detailed review - and thanks for taking one (book) for the team!
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Itās a tough job to fill, but someone has to do it. 
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Iām super interested in the book but canāt yet bring myself to take the plunge. Dr. No is a cool movie with a pace and feel that the other films donāt have. Bond is very much a detective and we get a very good idea as to who he is, almost like a character study. It was a great choice for film one, having a nice balance of grounding and fantastical. I donāt think a more serious and faithful Casino Royale type adaption wouldāve done the job in quite the same way.
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Got mail that my order is on his way with a tracking number , but they donāt say which shipping company it will be shipped with, so I donāt know anything yet. Nice and handy, but not really, it was almost free, so I have no right to complain. 
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There are sites where you can track your parcel without knowing the company. Just need the number.
For example:
https://postal.ninja/en
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Thank you, I didnāt know this. 
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I got a couple of emails from Taschen and it looks like I will receive the book tomorrow!
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Got it!
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Today I finally opened the box with the Tasschenbook. Nice publication, but of course it does not live up to the amount of money spent, it is really a lot and way too much money.
Of course, I was nowhere near able to read the entire book this day, but I was able to look at some parts here and there and of course all the photos. A lot of Ursula, both the well-known photos on location and less well-known ones, but of course you wonāt hear me complain about that.
Furthermore, many contracts, sketches by Adam and promo photos by Connery, Andress, Wiseman, posters and the last part of the book is the entire film story told in photos.
But surprisingly, not a single chapter or even a photo (yes, at the end he is half in a photo) of that somewhat strange man, the extra during the casino scene at the beginning, in which Bond is introduced. I want photos and posters of him. What an incomplete job! 
But a serious criticism: for that much money I expect a book that looks one hundred percent perfect. My copy has a fairly large number of thumbs in the pages from pages 325 to 475, which I think is quite a lot, Iām still unsure whether I will return it, often it is in those specific pages and you might get an even less good copy in return.
All in all: a nice, beautiful book, but of course the price is ridiculous and you must be seriously disturā¦ erā¦maybe not always making the right decisions to purchase this one.
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There is also a nice newspaper article to read about the spider that is used. It belonged to a boy who raised it and it was sitting in a jam jar on a shelf in the kitchen at the family home and when the film crew heard this they asked if they could use it for the film even though the boy said it wasnāt a tarantula, but that was no big deal, he was told.
The messy thing about the book is that you are enjoying reading it and then the rest of the newspaper article turns out not to be there, so you are in the middle of a sentence and it stopsā¦
I looked at the next page, at first I thought I had skipped a page, but no, the rest was simply missing.
I donāt think itās all that great and for such a price.
Before I forget: I have number 1412 of the 1962 copies. Would that mean that at least 1,411 people before me have already bought one? Pfffā¦ and then almost the 200 special editions with a lithograph are sold out too.
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Thank you very much for taking this one for the team!
Itās very unfortunate that this book seems to be a letdown, especially for such an undeserved price.
Makes me think I should really not spend the amount Taschen demands for their book on āThe Shiningā.
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Of course, it is not that it is not a beautiful book, but it is not worth the price they are asking for it now, it is worth at most 100/150 euros and even that would be a lot of money for such a book. . The price you now have to pay for it is of course ridiculous, especially when this is the cheapest edition and there are much more expensive versions with some kind of lithograph, which even cost double, as if with a photo poster, because that is it is actually, worth twice as much.
If you find one second hand, or heavily discounted, you could buy it, because it is a beautiful book in itself, but is it the most beautiful book about Bond films ever?
I always thought the James Bond Legacy was a very nice book and the two about OHMSS and TLDL are also very extensive and full of photos, although not as colossal, but certainly no less beautiful or fascinating and when you compare the pricesā¦
Anyway, I knew all this in advance, so I donāt have much right to complain, but I think it should be perfectly fine and it actually isnāt. Of course I understand that it is in the paper and that there may not always be much you can do about it, but for that price it should simply be rejected. There is even a card in the front stating that a quality control has taken place, but then it is looked at very superficially.
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I looked it up at the Taschen site and you will not believe it butā¦ it is sold out!
The book of The Shining is sold out for 2500 euro per copy!!
Crazy! There are a lot of people with too much money in this world!
The good news is there seems to be a new smaller cheaper version released from december for us normal people for 100 euro per copy!!
Maybe a decent alternative?
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The Peter Lamont book āThe Man With The Golden Eye: Designing The James Bond Filmsā is currently on sale at Forbidden Planet (UK) at a much more reasonable price:
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Got a mail with all kind of new books from Taschen about surfing, baseball and boxing with prices from 1000 to 2000 euro.
I have no idea if these are well known people except ofcourse about the fight.
a book about surfing Leroy Grannis signed 1000,-
a book about surfing Jim Heiman and John Severson signed 1500,-
a book about baseball Neil Leifer signed 1000,-
a book about the Fight Foreman vs Ali, Neil Leifer and Howard L. Bingham signed 2000,-
So maybe my Dr. No book was a bargain after all!!! 
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Taschen are a well known art tome publisher working in the margins between mainstream and those limited edition collector pieces that call up such prices. Think people with mansions and town houses out of Architectural Digest and whole libraries with nothing but books larger than most coffee tables. Thatās their core market for the limited editions; the mainstream editions are for that section of their catalogue that would actually have a broader audience; 007, Marvel, the photography/fashion classics and so on.
They are usually pimped up with some exclusive content, signed or special king size format. Evidently that pays. 
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There is currently a kickstarter going for Licensed
Troubleshooter - The Guns of James Bond by Caleb Daniels.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/licensed-troubleshooter?ref=3kto24
As a rule, at CBn weāre not overly hot on the shooting irons, but this seems to be a knowledgeable fanās in-depth work of passion, also going into the continuations and the gaffes of the early filmsā props department. This may be interesting for some members. Daniels is talking to Ian McCallum at length about various contents of his book:
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I was thinking about Markās books and those amazing covers he hasā¦
Between those and Simonās books with the Jeff Marshall covers we really are blessed with a vibrant fan community who produce some special work.
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These books are where itās at. The Bond movie compilations have been done to death and Iām over them. I have enough already and unless Iām proven wrong there isnāt a way to make them feel fresh. Content from the fans who have deep passion about particular films or elements of the franchise have my interest these days. The book on Dr. No had my attention up until the point I looked at the price tag.
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