Arms deals, narcotics and the sugar industry
FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.
8vo. Original black cloth, titled gilt to spine, without the gilt gun to upper cover; patterned green endpapers, with illustrated dust wrapper by Richard Chopping; pp.[iv], v, [iii], 9-221, [iii]; small smudge to lower front corner of wrapper and small chip to top of spine, faint foxing to edges, very good indeed.
First edition. This is the first impression, first issue, second state, binding A as described in Gilbert, which was issued in a run of 23,203 copies.
The Man with the Golden Gun was written at Goldeneye, Fleming's private estate in Jamaica, in early 1964. The plot features Scaramanga, arms deals, narcotics, smuggling, and the Jamaican sugar industry, among other dastardly deeds. Fleming was accustomed to the sugar business, with friends in the trade, and his Jamaican estate was close to the Drax Hall sugar estate, originally belonging to the 18th century gothic novelist William Beckford.
Gilbert, p.412.
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