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1959 First Edition - James Bond GOLDFINGER by Ian Fleming.
Author: Ian Fleming.
Title: GOLDFINGER.
Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First Edition, first issue.
Language: Text in English
Size: 8 " X 5 ",
Pages: 318 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with 'skull' design stamped to front cover (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Near fine content (bright, tight and clean - as shown).
The book: Beautiful First edition, first issue of the seventh of author Ian Fleming's fourteen original Bond books which were was adapted as the third film (1964) in James Bond 007 series.
The author: Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, journalist, and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.