Choice Copy in the Rare First State Binding with the Embossed Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1965).
Price: $12,500.00
About the item
First edition, first state boards with gold gun stamped on upper cover in first state dust jacket with 18s. 221 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth boards with gun stamped in gilt on front; title stamped in gilt on spine; some minor spotting and light stains to fore edges; green patterned endpapers, with one notation in red ink on first free; near fine in fine unrestored dust jacket, held in custom quarter morocco box.
Item #375704
A legendary rarity in the Bond bibliographic pantheon: a first edition copy of The Man with the Golden Gun in the scarce first state boards with the titular weapon embossed in gilt on the front; the design was quickly abandoned after the cost of including such a large area of gold on the entire edition was determined to be prohibitive, thus only a very small number of copies — said to be 1% — were produced in this manner. Paired here with its original, fine, unrestored first state dust jacket (18s on the front flap). A stunning piece of Bond-iana.
