New Carte Blanche Bond Book Now in Luxury Limited Edition

We have previously informed you about Bond’s switch to Bentley in Jeffery Deaver’s new Bond Book, Carte Blanche, which is seeing the secret agent using a Continental GT to satisfy his transportation needs. Now, the publishing house, together with the British automaker, announced the launch of a luxury limited edition of the book, with 500 copies only already available for pre-order at a price of £1,000 each.

The case of the Bentley special edition is inspired by the deserts of Dubai and the new Bentley Continental GT. Like the exterior of the GT, the case is made from polished aluminum. The company says an automotive supplier was employed to create the case to automotive standards using a specially commissioned machine.

The book itself is bound in white Nappa leather, the same grade used in a Bentley’s interior, mimicking the interior of the GT with its contrast of white leather trim and Pillar Box red edging. The title, author’s name and the familiar wings of the Bentley logo are carefully embossed into the front and foil-blocked onto the spine.

The text is printed in two colours, black and red, on sumptuous ivory paper, with endpapers of a matching red leather. The pages are cut and trimmed to reflect the handcrafted techniques of the Bentley construction process. Also, the book sits on a base of black anodised aluminium, chosen not to mark the white leather.

One highlight of the design is a die-cut bullet hole that pierces pages of the book. Hidden within the pages is a single polished 9mm bullet, individually marked with a number distinct to each copy.

“Bond destroys as well as he creates and saves. It was this element I needed to convey in my design. The reader has the excitement of finding the bullet housed in the centre of the pages with the text positioned so that the reading experience is undisturbed. I hope they find the book as exciting to hold and look at as the unfolding drama itself,” said Bentley Senior Designer Brett Boydel.