Ian Fleming | The Man With The Golden Gun, 1965, uncorrected proof, James Bond author John Gardner's copy

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September 22, 03:26 PM GMT

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Ian Fleming

The Man With The Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965

8vo, uncorrected proof, JAMES BOND AUTHOR JOHN GARDNER'S COPY, publisher's light green soft card covers, collector's green half morocco clamshell box

Includes numerous textual differences to the published version. 596 copies printed.

This is the personal copy of John Gardner (1926-2007), thriller writer and successor to Ian Fleming as the official James Bond novelist from 1981-1996, writing fourteen original 007 adventures and two film novelisations (Licence To Kill and Goldeneye). With accompanying signed documentation from the estate of John Gardner.

Gilbert A13a 'Uncorrected Proof Copies', pp. 414-5

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