A New Purchase

I purchased Kim Sherwood's "A Spy Like Me" last week.  This is the same paperback I wrote about in my last post.  The cover is great and it sits well with the paperback edition of "Double Or Nothing".   I'll be adding the cover image to PizGloria.com shortly.

I purchased this copy from "Thesaurus Books".  It was great to finally visit this Brighton store again.  Good to see it was full of lots of customers too.

I also visited "Top Titles" located on the opposite side of Church Street.  This lovely store always has a large range of recent titles on a wide variety of categories.

The final store I visited was "Avenue Books" in Elsternwick.  This is another great independent book store to get lost in.

"Trigger Mortis" Paperback In Oz Stores

The latest edition of "Trigger Mortis" by Anthony Horowitz is now available on Australian book shelves.  This paperback edition, published by Orion, has a great cover design by Keenan.  My wife and I visited several book stores today before finally purchasing this copy at Thesaurus Books in Brighton.

Considering there were no book purchases for PizGloria.com for the first five months of this year, July has proven to be a great month for new books to this website.

While driving home I noticed this billboard on Nepean Highway and quickly did a U-turn to take this photo.

On another note, I visited Out Of Print Books etc. in Caulfield the other day.  It was great to see several other customers in the store.  As usual they had at least 10 Bond paperbacks but none for me this time.

I also visited Cornerlamp Secondhand Books in Moorabbin.  Unfortunately there are signs on the window explaining the lease is ending soon.  Hopefully that just means this store will be moving and not closing down.

And just one last thing... while at Thesaurus Books today the girl behind the counter, Kate, recognised me and brought out a coffee book she thought I might be interested in; a copy of The James Bond Archives.  Obviously I've seen this on the web but not physically.  I had a quick flick through and it looks great so I may have to consider purchasing this in the future.

Another Young Bond Purchased

Last Thursday night I visited Thesaurus Bookstore in Brighton as it's open till 6pm on weekdays.

A quick check of the Young Adult readers section revealed a copy of Charlie Higson's "By Royal Command" featuring the new "Young Bond" logo.  These books are hard to find in good condition because the covers are easily scratched so I snapped this one up fast.

I now have four books in this Young Bond series featuring the new logo, with just one to go.

Further Additions To My Bond Book Collection

Last week I received two Bond books in the mail.  Both were "Dr No" movie tie-ins published by Pan books in 1962.  However unlike the existing copy of the same UK movie tie-in already in my collection, these two both display "Great Pan" on the cover instead of "Pan".  There are other differences and further details can be found on the Slight Cover Variations page of PizGloria.com under 11.  Here's a photo of the books (with many thanks to Alan T).

I also visited a couple of book stores selling new books.  The first was Thesaurus Books in Brighton where I purchased two books: "The Man With The Golden Typewriter" which is a collection of letters written by Ian Fleming and edited by Fergus Fleming, and a copy of "Goldfinger" published by Vintage to accompany the release of "Trigger Mortis" by Anthony Horowitz.

And finally, I also visited a Dymocks store where I saw a copy of the new Ian Fleming omnibus "The Spectre Trilogy" for sale.  I would have purchased it but I already have a copy on order.