The Man With The Golden Gun.
New York, NY: New American Library, 1965. [Spy thriller] FIRST American book club edition, Binding 'B', bibliographer's copy. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.121. Publisher's black vinyl with yellow trim, revolver gun blocked in gilt to spine, olive green endpapers, top edge coloured yellow, fore-edge untrimmed. With the typographic dust-jacket. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with a few small chips and tears. Very good. Unlike the Dollar Mystery Guild club edition, this printing uses the same jacket design as the first US edition for which it is subsequently often mistaken. This copy is from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled ownership and notes within. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #67640
Gilbert A13b (4.2).
Price: £48.00
