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First Edition, First Printing A beautiful near fine condition crisp, clean book with a striking vibrant near fine condition unrestored dust jacket. The book is in beautiful condition with crisp black boards. The book has clean cloth with very sharp corners and no edgewear. Tiny bump to rear board edge (hard to see). The binding is tight and square. The patterned end papers are in perfect condition being clean and bright, with no owner names, no inscriptions, no bookstore stamps, and no bookplates. The internal pages are clean, flat and bright with No marks, No writing, No foxing, No bent pages, No age toning and No stains. Beautiful clean book internally appearing as unread. Please see images for more details. The original striking unrestored jacket is in near fine condition. The colors are strong, bright and vibrant and without any of the usual toning to the spine. The jacket no edgewear, no rips, no chips, no stains, no rubbing but a few tiny nicks to the spine and corner tips, no fading, no sunning/darkening and no foxing. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of 18s. net. Please see detailed images. A handsome example of this title. Presents well on the shelf and would make a nice gift for a Fleming collector. ADDITIONAL IMAGES ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for additional Ian Fleming/James Bond titles.

The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel (and thirteenth book) of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death. The novel was not as detailed or polished as the others in the series, leading to poor but polite reviews. Despite that, the book was a best-seller. The story centers on the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, who had been thought dead, only to return to the Secret Service alive and well. In the novel, Bond is sent to assassinate Francisco 'Pistols' Scaramanga, a notorious hitman, who is believed to be responsible for the disappearance of several British intelligence operatives.