FLEMING, Ian.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Man with the Golden Gun. First edition, first impression, second issue, of Fleming's final full-length Bond novel, published eight months after his death. On submission, Fleming had told his editor, "this is, alas, the last Bond", adding that this time he meant it. His estate authorized one final James Bond book by Fleming, the story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966).The second issue has plain rather than green-and-white patterned endpapers, the stock of which had been temporarily depleted. Cape did not publish the work with plain endpapers again until 1979.

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