Goldfinger.
Fleming, Ian:
New York:
The Macmillan Company,
1959.
First US edition.
318pp. Faint discoloration to bottom margin of pp10 &11, otherwise contents very clean and unmarked. In the original black cloth-textured binding, with the skull in blind with gilt coins in the eye sockets on the front, and the spine lettered in gilt: very slight blunting to the spine ends, otherwise all very bright, clean and sharp. The protected unclipped Chopping dust-jacket has one 1cm closed tear to the back panel, a 2mm closed tear to base of spine, and tiny scuffs with loss at the extremities. Pictorial upper panel has two thin black marks at base and the leading edge is darkened; the spine is slightly darkened, and the lower panel is soiled. Upper joint slightly scuffed, and some mostly very slight knocking and darkening to the top edge. Overall appearance: slightly darkened, otherwise very good, with only minor wear. Very nice copy.
Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.
[Item ID: 30195905]
£350.00