Rare signed book: Goldfinger. First edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. Hardcover (black cloth boards with embossed skull and gilt eyes and lettering to cover and spine) with unclipped dust jacket bearing Richard Chopping's classic cover artwork, 5.25 x 7.75, 318 pages. Signed on the first free end page in ballpoint, "Ian Fleming, x." Autographic condition: fine, with an affixed authenticity label. Book condition: VG+/VG, with neat restorations to the jacket's worn spine ends.
Goldfinger originally bore the title The Richest Man in the World. Based upon American gold tycoon Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., Fleming named his villain after British architect Erno Goldfinger. When the actual Goldfinger found out his name was being used, he threatened to sue Fleming, and the matter was ultimately settled out of court. A best-seller upon its release, it became the third James Bond film in 1964 starring Sean Connery. An exceptional signed first edition of classic Bond-Fleming espionage.
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