The Man With The Golden Gun: First Edition, Second State Binding Fleming, Ian

Condition: Fine: First Edition, first impression; very clean and bright original black cloth binding (second state) with gold gilt letters to the spine; hard spine tips and sharp corners to the boards. Decorated marbled end papers; no previous owner's marks; very clean and tight text block with no spotting or toning. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine: wraparound jacket design of golden gun and cased bullets by Richard Chopping; no sunning or fading to the spine or to the front and rear panels; very clean white flaps with clear black letters; not price clipped (18s net). One tiny nick to top edge of spine tip, to bottom edge of verso and to top edge of rear flap, otherwise fine. A notably clean and bright book and wrapper, without the usual brown staining to the spine, for the collector.