Burnside Rare Books

Goldfinger

Fleming, Ian

London: Jonathan Cape, 1959.

First edition, first printing, first issue, second state. Signed by Ian Fleming on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth-affect boards with skull motif embossed on upper board, with gilt stamped coins in eye sockets and spine titles in gilt; in the second state lacking the embossed 3 mm line to the top left region of the skull. Near Fine with a very slight lean to the binding and several faint brown spots to the bottom textblock edge, in a Near Fine first issue dust jacket priced at 15s., with mild spine toning. Gilbert 1.2. Item #140941753

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