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 C. THE RAREST OF THE PLAIN CLOTH VERSIONS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [1]. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper (Linson) 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., housed in a custom-made clamshell box. A clean, fresh copy in like dust-jacket with some minor dustiness and a few light marks to reverse side. A particularly fine copy of a truly scarce variant. This is the SAME CLOTH used for the 'Golden Gun' blocked copies. Rare- only two copies have previously been viewed by Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert. 1299 copies were produced, almost as few as the 'Gun' copies. Not to be confused with other plain cloth copies (side-by-side comparison/analysis is strongly recommended). 'The Man With The Golden Gun' was the last full-length 007 novel; basis for the 1974 movie starring Roger Moore as James Bond and (Fleming's cousin) Christopher Lee as villain Francisco Scaramanga who, in the novel, is nicknamed "Pistols" Scaramanga. Item #73463

Gilbert A13a (1.4).

Price: £3,500.00