Goldfinger

by Ian Lancaster Fleming

£850 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. Spy thriller EXQUISITE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 20 x 13cm , pp.318. Finely hand-bound in quarter black pebble-grain morocco by Conway, over gold cloth-covered sides, with hand-sewn two-colour endbands, all edges gilt. The backstrip is lettered in gilt in the style of the original Cape trade binding. A crisp, clean, copy, inside and out. A highly sympathetic and superbly-executed leather book binding.

• Binding: Leather

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