James Bond Movie Posters: The Official 007 Collection: Amazon.co.uk: Tony Nourmand: 9780811836258: Books

More About the Authors

Discover books, learn about writers, and more.

Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.

First Sentence
On introducing James Bond in Dr. No. producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman could not have foreseen the phenomenom that the series of films would soon become. Read the first page

Explore More
Concordance

Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

(What's this?)

Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)

james bond(1)

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

Customer Reviews

8 Reviews

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

4.2 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nobody does it better!, 14 Nov 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: James Bond Movie Posters: The Official Collection (Hardcover)

This book is phenomenal and is a must have for any Bond fan. I've never seen these posters in any other 007 book and I have them all. Film buffs in general will need to definitely add this breathtakingly beautiful book to their library.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse | Permalink

Comment Comment

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great variety of posters and concept art, 24 Nov 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: James Bond Movie Posters: The Official Collection (Hardcover)

Tony Nourmand assembled a great variety of Bond posters and concept art from the 007 production company archive. Hightlights of the book are certainly the unusual "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" concept art designs and a colour rough from "Diamonds Are Forever". Chapters on "The Living Daylights" up to "GoldenEye" are a little disappointing as for the poster selection. On the other hand "The world is not enough" features some interesting pieces -watch out for the italian poster with the guy in jail. Quality of the poster reproductions is on a very high level. Beautiful presented. The background informations on the campaigns and artists are a little inaccurate in details but this will only be noticed by the advanced poster collector.
It is great to see that the "non official" Bond movies "Casino Royale" and "Never Say Never Again" are presented in the book. When I published an official Bond poster book in 1997 I was not allowed to include these two ! A very nice publication with some errors in details only.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse | Permalink

Comment Comment

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not complete, but a great collection!, 21 Nov 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: James Bond Movie Posters: The Official Collection (Hardcover)

At last a collection of James Bond posters! While I wouldn't say this book is complete in a check-list sort of way, I do think it's pretty darn impressive. This book owes much to a German publication released in 1997 called LICENSE TO THRILL. In fact, it uses many of the same images and utilized the same basic format. But at least with this book I can read the text (or what there is of it).

The best thing about the book is the concept art for OHMSS, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, and LIVE & LET DIE. The OHMSS concept art is worth the price of the book alone. It shows you not just variant posters, but a whole different approach to marketing the movie. The "007 and Bride" posters are wild and I think this would have made a great campaign. It certainly would have been the most daring and different campaign ever done for a Bond film and I think perfect for this very special movie. For those of you who love montage art, you've got to see the Thai OCTOPUSSY and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN posters (too bad it doesn't have the Thai A VIEW TO A KILL which is in the German book).

The only disappointment (and this was true of the German book as well) is how little space is devoted to the later films, especially the Dalton films. Paramount is the fact that, even though they make reference to it in the text section for LICENCE TO KILL, there are no examples of the unused and vastly superior LICENCE REVOKED campaign by Robert Peak. This is a glaring omission! Also, where's the standard U.S. one-sheets for NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN and FOR YOUR EYES ONLY? Strange.

But aside from these points, I would say this book is a must for Bond fans, especially if you don't have the German book.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse | Permalink

Comment Comment

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 8 customer reviews on Amazon.co.uk

Would you like to see more reviews about this item?

› Go to Amazon.com to see all 14 reviews 4.8 out of 5 stars

Were these reviews helpful? Let us know

Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb
Very simply, if you're a Bond fan, you'll love this book. The imagery and artwork are stunning and it's great to see the classic posters from the older Bond films.