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London, Jonathan Cape, 1965. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, green patterned endpapers, upper cover slightly marked, spine slightly cocked, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, lightly nicked at corners and spine ends, else very good. A very good example of one of Fleming's most famous Bond novels, a popularity further enhanced by the film starring the lamentably now late Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. Set in Fleming's adopted Jamaica this work introduces the master criminal Francisco 'Pistols' Scaramanga, a crack-shot assassin with a penchant for bling, an inability to whistle and, in the film version at least, a third nipple...

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.