1. What is your favourite Chopping cover and why? My favourite Richard Chopping cover is “The Man With The Golden Gun” simply because it’s so large it wraps around the entire book. It was also the first Fleming / Jonathan Cape I purchased and looks great. Special mention has to go to “OHMSS” though simply because of…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? My favourite Chopping cover is probably Octopussy & The Living Daylights. I just like the images and layout. From Russia, With Love is another favourite. I wish Mr Chopping had been commissioned to re-design the rest of the series, and that these designs had been used…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? I find book design so fascinating because there are so many doors into a story. Goldfinger and Thunderball tie as my favorite Chopping cover for Ian Fleming. I love how the skeleton motif implies a thrilling experience without actually defining any specific characters or scenes. It’s…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? I think it would have to be Thunderball. The skeletal hand over the cards and pierced through with the dagger is perhaps the most eye-catching of the covers, in my opinion. I enjoy From Russia With Love as well, the cover is outstanding, the simplicity of…
1. What are the rarest Bond 1st Editions you have? One of the most desirable James Bond titles we currently offer is Ian Fleming’s first book, Casino Royale, a fine first edition in a near fine dust wrapper, quite scarce in the trade. Less than 3,000 books were printed in the first state, only few survive in such excellent condition. We generally have a rather comprehensive offering of first editions from…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? From Russia With Love. I think the combination of the revolver and the rose is timeless, and it is the origin of the Chopping-Bond style. In addition, it is my favourite novel so I’m inclined to be biased. 2. Do you own any 1st editions? No…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? From Russia With Love (FRWL) because it is completely iconic and Richard Chopping’s painting is the greatest piece of art ever to grace a dust jacket. Coincidently it also happens to enrobe Fleming’s best Bond book and payed an extremely significant part in elevating him from…
Which is your favorite of the Carte Blanche dust jackets? I do like the Simon & Schuster cover with the large 007 on the front, which is the jacket from the American edition of the book. The UK edition is also great, just a bit more subtle. Which is your favorite Ian Fleming Bond novel? Love them…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? It’s a hard one to call but I do like the Octopussy and the Living Daylights cover for a few reasons. Of course Chopping’s trademark flies are in abundance over the shell, but this is a cover that doesn’t leap off the page as a Bond…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? From Russia, With Love. I think primarily because as a bookseller I associate it with scarcity, which makes it a bit more appealing, but also the actual arrangement of the image, it seems to fit the cover better than the others. I did have a nice…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? Probably From Russia, With Love. I like the rose and the gun as the hint at what is to come within the pages of the novel. 2. Do you own any 1st editions? I have a copy of You Only Live Twice, but it is without…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? I suppose I’ll be boring and say that “From Russia, With Love” is my favorite Chopping cover. It’s the iconic one, the first one. After that, I sure like “Thunderball.” 2. Do you own any 1st editions? I once owned a complete set of UK first…
1. What is your favorite Richard Chopping cover and why? They’re all wonderful, of course, but I have a particular soft spot for The Spy Who Loved Me. The cover is a lesson in composition. The commando dagger is a nice nod to Fleming’s past, and Richard Chopping presents the dagger with such skill that…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? The artwork created for “From Russia With Love” is my favourite. It does set the tone for all other Bond Chopping covers to come and is highly recognizable. It conveys the content and feel of the book so well while staying away from the usual book cover clichés. And…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? Without a doubt, From Russia, With Love (1957). It is the first and best of the Chopping illustrations which introduces many of the familiar elements of his trompe l’oeil designs; the wood-grained background, a floral motif (in this case a blood-red rose with a single dew…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? Easily “From Russia With Love“. For me, no other image captures the essence of a Bond story faster than Chopping’s painting of the modified Smith & Wesson revolver, with its cut-away trigger guard and shortened barrel, and the stem of a beautifully painted rose through it.…
1. What is your favorite chopping cover and why? My favorite cover by chopping has to be his first for Ian Fleming, “From Russia, With Love”. I genuinely love this cover. The combination of the revolver and the rose are symbolic of beauty and death, man and nature, and they give a tantalizing glimpse into the world…
1. What is your favorite Chopping cover and why? Hi, and thanks for having me. I think it has to be Goldfinger, with the skull holding the rose between its teeth and gold coins in its eye sockets. I’m not sure it entirely fits the mood of that novel, which apart from Bond’s feelings in…
1. What is your favorite Richard Chopping cover and why? That’s a tough one. They are all so great. From Russia With Love is the classic. But I find myself drawn to Thunderball. It has a story to it — the remains of some sort of bizarre gambling game which resulted in death. I also like that it has a…
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