Ian Fleming - The Man With The Golden Gun - 1965

Author: FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964)
Title: The Man With the Golden Gun
Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1965

First edition, first print of 1965.

Complete with dust-jacket and removable protective clear film. Dust-jacket complete with price tag. There are no tears, stains or other defects.

The volume has a black hardcover, clean and not faded, with very bright gold titles on the spine. Green endpapers without defects or inscriptions, a few stains due to previous traces of tape, no longer present.

The book is in good condition, without inscriptions, stains or tears. A sticker with the author's name was applied to the title page. The pages are all white and spotless.

Published one year after Ian Fleming's death, The Man with the Golden Gun is the latest James Bond novel written by its original creator. Fleming's health rapidly deteriorated while writing the book, and although he finished a draft of the novel in 1964, he never completely reworked it. After Fleming's death, the novel was published in the UK and then serialized on The Daily Express and Playboy. Ironically, in this novel Bond is presumed dead before returning to London. He was brainwashed by the Soviet Union and attempted to assassinate M. After regaining consciousness, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to assassinate Francisco Scaramanga, known as "The Man with the Golden Gun".