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:: Sunday, December 30, 2007 ::

Fleming

Sorry to geek out way beyond my normal bounds by posting about stamps. The quote below shows why I found this interesting.

Bond stamps: From Ruislip with love

"Each stamp offers a potted history of spy-novel iconography. The Pan jackets, with their understated secret codes and visual metaphors (Dr No's spider web, From Russia With Love's Fabergé egg, the Spirit of Ecstasy from Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce) were replaced by crass pictures of the spy hero centre-stage, in action, in the sea, and on a bar stool – themselves to be replaced by the Penguin Viking covers, beautiful retro images of the books' real selling propositions: chicks and baddies."

More images: Ian Fleming photos - Daylife
Labels: Art, Literature

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