May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 11,050
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
FLEMING, IAN. The Man with the Golden Gun. 8vo, publisher's black boards, very slight lean, gun design gilt on front cover, spine titles gilt; pictorial dust-jacket after a design by Richard Chopping, 10mm closed tear at top of spine/rear panel fold, dampstain to front panel only of which a small portion visible on the recto; contents clean. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965

Additional Details

first edition, first state with the golden gun on the front cover. the rarest of the james bond books. Around 940 copies were produced with this binding before the costs of doing so became prohibitive, with most of these shipped out to the extremities of the British Commonwealth. Gilbert A13a (1.1).