James Bond First Editions

The Man With the Golden Gun.

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Thriller] FIRST ISSUE, second state, binding B, British colonial/export copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [1]. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with bronze lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping, priced at 18s. Top edge spotted, contemporary ownership to title, lightly used jacket with some wear to crown. Very good. This copy was exported and sold in Brazil (bookseller ticket of Kosmos Book Shop, Rio-San Paulo-Porto Alegre), price clipped accordingly. Shows well. UK Cape editions of Fleming's best-selling James Bond series were imported by British overseas territories across the globe [Gilbert], as demonstrated by the present copy. From the Jon Gilbert collection (pencilled note and ownership within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #67508

Gilbert A13a (1.3).

Price: £150.00