The Man with the Golden Gun -
Ian Lancaster Fleming
1965 - Jonathan Cape, London - First edition, First Impression, First Issue, Second State
Fine first edition of the last of Fleming’s novels, involving the world’s most deadly assassin, the Cuban Paco ‘Pistols’ Scaramanga - the Man with the Golden Gun. Appropriately housed in a bespoke black cloth clamshell case, lined in scarlet red felt, the spine with gilt stamped lettering and thematic gilt stamped gold dum-dum bullet, as featured on the classic Richard Chopping designed dust jacket.
A brainwashed James Bond tried, and failed, to kill his boss, M. It's time for him to prove he can be trusted again.
Bond finds his man in the sweltering heat of Jamaica. His plan is to infiltrate Scaramanga's gang of criminals to get close to the man himself. But if he fails, Bond will be the next target for the golden gun. Published posthumously. In the second state binding without the embossed gun on front board. For the record there were only 940 copies of the first state ‘trial binding’ with the embossed golden gun, the final binding did not include the gun due to the high cost of the material.
Reference: Gilbert, Ian Fleming - The Bibliography, A13a (1.2):- Book - First Impression, First Issue, Second State (without the Golden Gun block to front board), Binding A, with green patterned endpapers and ‘First published 1965’ on copyright page, last title listed on verso of half title ‘Adventures I and 2’. Cloth type C [Excelin] in black with back-strip lettered in Nuvap (gilt) [a pale or white-gold as opposed to bronze or deeper rose-gold colour]. 23,203 copies.
Octavo (book size 18.6x12.5cm), pp. 221 [3]. Dust jacket priced ‘18s net’ to lower corner of front flap, all corners with Jonathan Cape’s decorative clip. Condition: FIne, slight bumping to corners, in fine dust jacket. Ref: 111249 Price: HK$ 11,000
A brainwashed James Bond tried, and failed, to kill his boss, M. It's time for him to prove he can be trusted again.
Bond finds his man in the sweltering heat of Jamaica. His plan is to infiltrate Scaramanga's gang of criminals to get close to the man himself. But if he fails, Bond will be the next target for the golden gun. Published posthumously. In the second state binding without the embossed gun on front board. For the record there were only 940 copies of the first state ‘trial binding’ with the embossed golden gun, the final binding did not include the gun due to the high cost of the material.
Reference: Gilbert, Ian Fleming - The Bibliography, A13a (1.2):- Book - First Impression, First Issue, Second State (without the Golden Gun block to front board), Binding A, with green patterned endpapers and ‘First published 1965’ on copyright page, last title listed on verso of half title ‘Adventures I and 2’. Cloth type C [Excelin] in black with back-strip lettered in Nuvap (gilt) [a pale or white-gold as opposed to bronze or deeper rose-gold colour]. 23,203 copies.
Octavo (book size 18.6x12.5cm), pp. 221 [3]. Dust jacket priced ‘18s net’ to lower corner of front flap, all corners with Jonathan Cape’s decorative clip. Condition: FIne, slight bumping to corners, in fine dust jacket. Ref: 111249 Price: HK$ 11,000