Lot 4 , Fleming, Ian - The Man With The Golden Gun, 1st edition, half title, green / white patterned e/ps,

Fleming, Ian - The Man With The Golden Gun, 1st edition, half title, green / white patterned e/ps, gilt lettered cloth and d/wrapper, 1965; together with (same author) For Your Eyes Only ..., 1st edition, half title, secondary 'red' title after contents, d/wrapper, (pp.199/200 slightly defective), 1960; and also 2 other firsts without d/wrappers - From Russia, With Love, 1957 and Thunderball, 1961
Estimate £160-200

Golden Gun - d/w, unclipped, very slight bumped head of spine, d/w edge tears, head of spine and Iightly marked, fore-edge small spot last few pages and just on d/w inside back cover, otherwise reasonable
Your Eyes - d/w, sealed down (cloth not visible), WH Smith Lib. label front pastedown, d/w unclipped and no edge tears, fore-edge spotting just shows few outer margins, pp.199/200 has text tear affects first 4 lines by inner and first 14 lines by outer margins - but hardly any loss
Russian and Thunderball (no d/ws) are reasonably good copies
DJ of FYEO is complete but slightly browned.
Plastic slip cover for DJ of FYEO does slide off


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Sold for £500