Ian Fleming | Goldfinger, first edition, first impression, Cape's advance binding

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

September 22, 02:08 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ian Fleming

Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, CAPE'S ADVANCE BINDING, ownership inscription to title-page, issued in a certified library binding of blue cloth, lettered in silver, top edge yellow, unclipped dust-jacket by Richard Chopping (priced 16s), black half-morocco clamshell box

In a variant binding unrecorded by Gilbert.

Not in Gilbert, but see p. 200

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