London: Jonathan Cape, 1965
8vo., black cloth lettered in bronze to spine with publisher’s device to foot; textured green endpapers; together in the pictorial dustwrapper (unclipped, 18s net to front flap) with the iconic wraparound image by Richard Chopping; pp. [iv], v, [iii], 9-221, [iii]; an excellent, fresh copy, the outer edges of text block perhaps with one or two scratches, and tiny dent to upper edge of front board; otherwise fine in the very good plus dustwrapper which is just a touch creased at folds and edges, with one or two very tiny nicks to upper edge.
First edition, first issue, second state. Binding B in type C cloth (black), with the backstrip lettered in bronze and with the patterned green endpapers. The most common binding encountered for this title.
It was in 1964 that Ian Fleming began to write his thirteenth and penultimate James Bond novel, while staying at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. Featuring the infamous Scaramanga, the plot is set predominantly on the island, and features the usual collection of rogues who plot to sabotage the island’s bauxite trade, sell arms to Castro, smuggle narcotics into America, and set the cane sugar fields ablaze. It is up to the protagonist to sabotage the villain’s plans. Fleming passed away on 12th August 1964, as as such The Man with the Golden Gun appeared posthumously, without the author’s usual second round of edits, to polite and generally good reviews.
A lovely example.
Gilbert, p. 418-9.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965
8vo., black cloth lettered in bronze to spine with publisher’s device to foot; textured green endpapers; together in the pictorial dustwrapper (unclipped, 18s net to front flap) with the iconic wraparound image by Richard Chopping; pp. [iv], v, [iii], 9-221, [iii]; an excellent, fresh copy, the outer edges of text block perhaps with one or two scratches, and tiny dent to upper edge of front board; otherwise fine in the very good plus dustwrapper which is just a touch creased at folds and edges, with one or two very tiny nicks to upper edge.
First edition, first issue, second state. Binding B in type C cloth (black), with the backstrip lettered in bronze and with the patterned green endpapers. The most common binding encountered for this title.
It was in 1964 that Ian Fleming began to write his thirteenth and penultimate James Bond novel, while staying at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. Featuring the infamous Scaramanga, the plot is set predominantly on the island, and features the usual collection of rogues who plot to sabotage the island’s bauxite trade, sell arms to Castro, smuggle narcotics into America, and set the cane sugar fields ablaze. It is up to the protagonist to sabotage the villain’s plans. Fleming passed away on 12th August 1964, as as such The Man with the Golden Gun appeared posthumously, without the author’s usual second round of edits, to polite and generally good reviews.
A lovely example.
Gilbert, p. 418-9.