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First Edition, First Printing A beautiful FINE condition crisp, clean book with a striking vibrant fine/near fine condition unrestored dust jacket. The book is in beautiful fine condition with crisp black boards. The book has clean cloth with very sharp corners and no edgewear. Tiny push to one corner. 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 but 3 dots to the outer page block, 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/fine condition, (however the jacket has been discounted due to the verso having tape edging running along the outer edge to protect the jacket from wear as otherwise this book would be priced $1700). The colors are strong 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, 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 superior example of this title in exceedingly scarce condition. Presents well on the shelf and would make a nice gift for a Fleming collector.ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. PLEASE SEE OUR ABE STORE FOR MORE IAN FLEMING 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.