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FLEMING, Ian (1908–1964). Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, [1959]. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST STATE. Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in gilt with publisher’s device in gilt at foot, front board stamped in blind with drawing of a skull, a single fifty-dollar gold piece stamped in gilt in each eye socket, with small detail stamped in upper-left portion of skull. Original first-issue dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping priced at “15s. net”, with nineteen-line blurb on the front flap (lightly chipped at ends and corners, faint dust soiling or toning to jacket panels, corners gently creased, joints starting, slight slope to spine); contents clean. Gilbert A7a (1.1). The seventh James Bond novel.