Goldfinger.
"Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action": FIRST EDITION OF IAN FLEMING’S GOLDFINGER; WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
Goldfinger.
FLEMING, Ian.
Item Number: 3655
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Gerald Micklem, This piece – of homework! from Ian Fleming.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by The Dragonfly Bindery, which reproduces an image of the skull with a rose from the front panel of the dust jacket.
"In the first two months of 1958, Fleming wrote the first draft of Goldfinger under the working title The Richest Man in the World. This was destined to become a quintessential example of both the novels and the movies" (Biondi, 35). Made into the 1965 film starring Sean Connery as Bond and Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore.
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