{"id":79,"date":"2008-05-09T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=79"},"modified":"2025-07-19T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T12:19:51","slug":"james-bond-will-return-in-a-new-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2008\/05\/09\/james-bond-will-return-in-a-new-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond Will Return in . . . a New Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Penguin Blog<\/a>, the “house” blog of Penguin Books UK, brings news of a cover re-vamp for the hardback Ian Fleming James Bond novels (“Covering Bond<\/a>“):<\/p>\n

The centenary of Fleming’s birth was clearly a good time to revisit the Bonds and cover them in a package that says, yes these are fun, but also makes it implicit that there’s no reason not to take them seriously. Most importantly, they should look like books worth owning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not entirely sold on the Bond novels as literature, but there’s no denying their importance to modern culture. And indeed, the books’ series design presents a refined style that helps capture the brutally sensualist spirit of the books (which never devolved into the campiness of the 1970’s and -80’s film iterations). These books would look good on any shelf, regardless of the books on either side.<\/p>\n

\"Spines<\/p>\n

The Penguin Blog has a larger front cover illustrations<\/a> of each of the novels as well, striking vignettes of femmes fatale<\/em> in a single color palette. Bond is back, in style.<\/p>\n

Plus, who knew Penguin Books had a blog<\/a>? Another feed for the reader.<\/p>\n

(via Daring Fireball<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Penguin Blog, the “house” blog of Penguin Books UK, brings news of a cover re-vamp for the hardback Ian Fleming James Bond novels (“Covering Bond“): The centenary of Fleming’s birth was clearly a good time to revisit the Bonds and cover them in a package that says, yes these are fun, but also makes … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,73],"tags":[33,74],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","tag-james-bond","tag-penguin-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8424,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}