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31. FLEMING, Ian GOLDFINGER Cape, 1959 [46429] First edition. 8vo. Original black boards with blind-stamped skull and gilt coins to the upper cover, in pictorial dustwrapper by Richard Chopping. A near fine book in a very good dustwrap - per, with some browning to the spine and edges. $2,200 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 32. FLEMING, Ian ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE Cape, 1963 [40159] First edition, deluxe issue, number 128 of 250 copies, signed by the author. Original quarter vellum over black boards in pub- lisher’s original clear glassine dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Fron- tispiece illustration of Fleming by Amhurst Villiers not included in the trade edition. A fine copy with an unusually clean vellum spine. Page edges slightly tanned with a small mark to the fore edge. The glassine shows a couple of tears, but is mainly com- plete. $20,000 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the only Bond novel to be issued in this deluxe format and is uncommon by dint of its limitation. Over time, the vellum has shown a tendency to yellow, and copies in such nice con- dition, with the original glassine, are scarce.
WITH THE GOLDEN GUN ON THE BOARDS 33. FLEMING, Ian THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Cape, 1965 [46764] First edition, first state binding with the publisher’s golden gun embossed on the front panel, in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Chopping. A fine copy, bright and crisp with no tarnishing to the gilt, in a fine (price clipped) dustwrapper. Uncommon in such crisp condition. $15,000 All Fleming’s previous novels have a decorated front board, and it was the publisher’s intention to do the same with this book. A decision was made, very early in the process, that to block the whole print run with such a large expanse of foil, would be financially prohibitive. “According to the publisher’s book production files... the original esti - mate allowed for just four and a half square inches of foil-stamping [the executed design measured nearly nineteen square inches]... The decision to cease stamping a golden gun was purely economical...” - Gilbert (Ian Fleming Bibliography). According to publisher’s records, 940 copies were thus blocked, a larger number than had previously been thought (though still a tiny proportion of the 82,000 copies of the first edition printed). The reason for its appar - ent extreme scarcity was that being the earliest copies, they were all sent to the colonies, principally Australia and South Africa. Nevertheless it remains by far the scarcest recognised discreet state of any James Bond book.
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