FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Goldfinger, New York, 1959, 8vo, half title (a few pages with light stains and spots), original black cloth with skull design stamped in blind with gold coins as eyes, dust-jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Gilbert A7b.

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Goldfinger. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. 8vo (188 x 120mm). Half title (a few pages with light stains and spots). Original black cloth with skull design stamped in blind and with gold coins as eyes, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping with price of $3.00 unclipped (jacket with some fraying at head and foot of backstrip). Please note that the dust-jacket has been photographed in its protective acetate wrapper which we have not removed to avoid damaging it. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Biondi & Pickard p.45; Burgess Ninety-Nine Novels p.74 (his only choice of a work by Fleming): "... Fleming's passion for plausibility, his own naval intelligence background, and a kind of sincere Manicheism, allied to journalistic efficiency in the management of his récit, make his work rather impressive"; Gilbert A7b.