All ten James Bond box sets/slipcases below are from my own collection. However they do not include every box set ever released, so I'll be filling many of the gaps using images from another Aussie Bond book collector, Brendan E., who has kindly offered to send photos of US Signet box sets from his own collection. Please keep watching this page as it will slowly be updated.
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Publisher: Pan Books
Year of Release: 1973
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: None Printed
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Unknown
Titles Included: Four - "Casino Royale", "From Russia With Love", "Dr No" and "Goldfinger"
Details: This was the first box set released in the UK. It includes four titles from the Still Life series of books by Pan Books. There is no ISBN on the slipcase. Further details about this box set and series can be found at the very informative 007 Magazine website. This particular box set, as well as two Triad box sets below, were purchased from John F. when he started selling his entire James Bond collection in 2023. Otherwise they are rarely found for sale in the wild.
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Publisher: Triad
Year of Release: 1978
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 0 586 04820 0
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Beverley Le Barrow
Titles Included: Six - "Live And Let Die", "From Russia With Love", "Goldfinger", "You Only Live Twice", "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Octopussy And The Living Daylights"
Details: This was the first of four box sets released by Triad for the Girls On Guns series of books. All titles in this slipcase were Triad Panther.
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Publisher: Triad
Year of Release: 1980
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 0 586 04820 0
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Beverley Le Barrow
Titles Included: Six - "Live And Let Die", "From Russia With Love", "Goldfinger", "You Only Live Twice", "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Octopussy And The Living Daylights"
Details: This second box set released by Triad featured exactly the same titles as the 1978 Triad box set above and both slipcases share the same ISBN's. However this box set features "Bond 007" on the slipcase instead of "Ian Fleming's James Bond".
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Publisher: Triad
Year of Release: early 1980's
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 0 586 06306 4
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Beverley Le Barrow
Titles Included: Four - "Goldfinger", "From Russia With Love", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "The Man With The Golden Gun"
Details: This was the third of four box sets released by Triad, again for the Girls On Guns series of books. This time all the titles were either Triad Granada or just Granada. The slipcase reads "Bond 007" which is also the text on the second Triad above.
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Publisher: Triad
Year of Release: early 1980's
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 0 586 05691 2
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Beverley Le Barrow
Titles Included: Four - "Live And Let Die", "Goldfinger", "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Octopussy And The Living Daylights"
Details: This was the last of the box sets released by Triad for the Girls On Guns series. Like the third box set above the titles were either Triad Granada or just Granada. The slipcase also reads "Bond 007" but the ISBN's on the slipcases differ.
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Year of Release: 2004
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 0 140 91001 8
Barcode: 9780140910018
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Toby McFarlan Pond
Titles Included: Fourteen - "Casino Royale", "Live And Let Die", "Moonraker", "Diamonds Are Forever", "From Russia With Love", "Dr No", "Goldfinger", "For Your Eyes Only", "Thunderball", "The Spy Who Loved Me", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "You Only Live Twice", "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Octopussy And The Living Daylights"
Details: This was the first set of books released by the new publisher of the James Bond titles in the UK after Coronet. The release from Penguin marked the first time all fourteen Ian Fleming James Bond adventures were released in an English language box set. A limited number of these box sets were originally sold by a now defunct retail store in the UK named Past Times that featured the text "Limited Edition of 2000" and each set was individually numbered, but otherwise the set was identical to the standard one shown here. The series of covers enclosed in the slipcase were designed by Toby McFarlan Pond and many Bond fans considered these cover designs a little controversial upon their initial release.
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Year of Release: 2005
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 0 140 91136 7
Barcode: 9780140911367
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Unknown
Titles Included: Ten - "Casino Royale", "Live And Let Die", "Moonraker", "Diamonds Are Forever", "From Russia With Love", "Dr No", "Goldfinger", "Thunderball", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "You Only Live Twice"
Details: This set only contained ten of the fourteen Ian Fleming James Bond titles in the Modern Classics Series 1. It excluded the two short story collections ("For Your Eyes Only" and "Octopussy And The Living Daylights") along with Ian Fleming's experimental novel "The Spy Who Loved Me" and his final novel "The Man With The Golden Gun". Either a great marketing ploy (the title of the next Penguin box set would include the word "Complete" and all 14 titles) or a misjudgement by Penguin, regardless the last four titles in the same series of covers were soon made available to purchase separately.
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Year of Release: 2008
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 978 0 140 91149 7
Barcode: 9780140911497
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Richie Fahey
Titles Included: Fourteen - "Casino Royale", "Live And Let Die", "Moonraker", "Diamonds Are Forever", "From Russia With Love", "Dr No", "Goldfinger", "For Your Eyes Only", "Thunderball", "The Spy Who Loved Me", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "You Only Live Twice", "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Octopussy And The Living Daylights"
Details: Penguin released this set to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Ian Fleming. The covers were created by Richie Fahey and convey a retro style reminiscent of the earlier Bond covers from Pan Books in the 1950's/early 60's. Originally Fahey's cover art was designed for Penguin in the US in 2002 but they proved so popular that Penguin in the UK used the same cover art on their own printings in 2006, which were also included in this centenary box set of 2008. I have titled this series of covers the Richie Fahey UK Retro Series. Strangely, despite the popularity of these covers and their origin, Penguin in the US never released a similar box set.
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Publisher: Puffin Books
Year of Release: Unknown (perhaps around 2007 or 2008)
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: None Printed
Barcode: None Printed
Author: Charlie Higson
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Unknown
Titles Included: Three - "Silverfin", "Blood Fever" and "Double Or Die"
Details: Charlie Higson wrote five Young Bond novels and a "dossier" which contained a single Young Bond short story. This box set was released by Puffin and only contains three of Higson's titles. There is scant detail about this set anywhere though. The slipcase does not even feature an ISBN or barcode. However if the set was created during or after the publication of his third novel, "Double Or Die", I suspect it would have been released around 2007 or 2008. The slipcase reads "Limited Editions - Signed and Numbered" as each title included is signed by the auther and numbered out of 1000. The covers in this set are part of Puffin Series 1 which is a lame title for a series on my part but I'm not aware of a better name to use at this time.
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Publisher: Orion Books
Year of Release: 2012
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 978 1 4072 4516 4
Barcode: 9781407245164
Author: John Gardner
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Dan Mogford
Titles Included: Five - "Goldeneye", "Cold", "Death Is Forever", "Icebreaker" and "Licence To Kill"
Details: Orion released this box set containing five titles that only appear to be linked as they're all part of the Dan Mogford UK Anniversary Series. Two of the titles were originally written as movie tie-ins ("Goldeneye" and "Licence To Kill") but it doesn't explain the link with the other three in the box. A strange release but it's always great to have John Gardner's James Bond continuation novels in any print form regardless.
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Publisher: Vintage Books
Year of Release: 2012
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 978 0 099 58795 8
Barcode: 9780099587958
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artists/Cover Designers: Suzanne Dean. James Jones, Stephen Parker, Julia Connolly, Matt Broughton and Kris Potter
Titles Included: Fourteen - "Casino Royale", "Live And Let Die", "Moonraker", "Diamonds Are Forever", "From Russia With Love", "Dr No", "Goldfinger", "For Your Eyes Only", "Thunderball", "The Spy Who Loved Me", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "You Only Live Twice", "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Octopussy And The Living Daylights"
Details: Vintage gained the publication rights to the Ian Fleming James Bond novels from Penguin and released this box set containing the Vintage 007 Series.
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Publisher: Vintage Books
Year of Release: 2015
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 978 1 784 70356 1
Barcode: 9781784703561
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Unknown
Titles Included: Three - "Thunderball", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "You Only Live Twice"
Another set released by Vintage, but this time only containing three Ian Fleming titles. I suspect this box set was released to coincide with the increasing presence of the crime organisation SPECTRE in the Daniel Craig film series at the time. The covers of the three titles are part of the There Is Only One Bond Series.
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Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Group
Year of Release: 2019
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 978 1 789 50662 4
Barcode: 9781789506624
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Unknown
Titles Included: Five - "Casino Royale", "Thunderball", "From Russia With Love", "Goldfinger" and "Live And Let Die"
This set of five books was published by Arcturus Publishing in the UK for the Canadian market where Ian Fleming's character of James Bond has entered public domain. Initially only available in Canada this set can regularly be found for sale elsewhere on the web. The covers of the five titles are the only titles available in the Arcturus Series.
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Publisher: Puffin Books
Year of Release: Unknown
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 978 0 241 36487 1
Barcode: 9780241364871
Author: Charlie Higson
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Kev Walker
Titles Included: Five - "Silverfin", "Blood Fever", "Double Or Die", "Hurricane Gold" and "By Royal Command"
This set of five books was released by Puffin Books in the UK. Instead of a being enclosed in a cardboard outer box the five books were shrink-wrapped in plastic with a paper insert. The insert displays a barcode and an ISBN for the set. All five copies have "Not for resale" printed on the back cover instead of barcodes. Otherwise the front and back covers are identical to the Kev Walker Young Bond Series 2.
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Publisher: Ian Fleming Publications
Year of Release: 2023
Country of Origin: UK
ISBN: 9781915797100
Barcode: 9781915797100
Author: Ian Fleming
Cover Artist/Cover Designer: Webb & Webb
Titles Included: Fourteen - "Casino Royale", "Live And Let Die", "Moonraker", "Diamonds Are Forever", "From Russia With Love", "Dr No", "Goldfinger", "For Your Eyes Only", "Thunderball", "The Spy Who Loved Me", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "You Only Live Twice", "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Octopussy And The Living Daylights"
This box set of fourteen books from Ian Fleming Publications (IFP) was released in the UK in 2023. The paperbacks were initially available for sale individually on April 13 of that year to celebrate the 70th anniversary of "Casino Royale", Ian Fleming's first James Bond adventure. Later in 2023 IFP commissioned Webb & Webb to create a slipcase for a limited 250 box sets. The covers of each of the novels are shown on the 70 Years Of 007 Series page.