FLEMING, Ian.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Man with the Golden Gun. First edition, first impression, of the author's last novel, published eight months after his death and later adapted into the 1974 film starring Roger Moore. On submission, Fleming 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).This copy is from the first issue, with green and white endpapers and the final words on the verso of the half-title reading "Adventures 1 and 2" (later changed to white endpapers and "1, 2 and 3"). The binding is in the second state as usual, without the gun design blocked in gilt on the front cover. The design proved prohibitively expensive and was dropped after the first 940 copies were sent abroad.

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