I have a copy of My Last Years With Bing (luckily I received a signed copy by complete surprise!) and a fair bit of the photographs are in color, maybe the reprint has them in color? I've not gotten around to snagging a copy of the the either prints of the book, if I get the reprint I will let you know if there are any substantial differences that I can see.

Delighted that John and Aaron have unique sounding copies of this book.
I'm so belatedly sorry, Pantelis that I can't throw any light on the differences between the 1983 and 2004 editions of the first book, as I only own and have seen a second hand copy of the earlier edition ("My Life With Bing"). In my copy, all the photographs are black and white. 

I do remember in the UK, aged fourteen and deliberately attempting to manipulate my mother into buying it for me by lengthily hanging my nose over a pristine brand new, freshly published copy of this in Nottingham's now late WH Smith bookseller's store. This muse had eventually (and most surprisingly) worked three years earlier over a biography of the comedy partner of Bing's golfing and racing buddy, Stan Laurel. No such luck that time when on turning to the book's price of (I think), twenty pounds (an unheard of fortune, forty-three years ago for a single volume but as Aaron has just stated, the US ((imported?) edition was also for the UK market), my mother quickly replaced it on the shelf with a definitive exclamation of "WHAT??? You can forget that!" as I was then very quickly guided out of the store.

However, fast forward to twenty-odd years later and my late wife (knowing what a huge Bing fan I am, knowing this story and knowing I was still without a copy) presented me with a beautifully signed one by Kathryn. Needless to say I smugly took it to show my mother that very same Christmas Day. Life can certainly certainly have its improvements, can't it? 

 

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Thank you, Pantelis for your kind words.
The irony was, my mother had no memory of the incident when I smugly showed her the book.
Laughingly she did respond that there's the proof on what a dreadful mother she had been. 
I am sorry, Pantelis, I've never even seen a copy of the 2004 book.
My guess on it just containing black and white  photographs would be the same - unless they wanted at the time to match with the more colourfully illustrated, "My Last Years With Bing". 
I wonder if it's worth you writing a letter to "Bing" magazine? There may be someone off this forum who has a copy who may be able to provide you with a definitive answer.