The Man With the Golden Gun by Fleming, Ian - 1965

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Fine/Fine. A Fine copy of the book with only the slightest bit of foxing to the closed page block, otherwise bright, clean and lovely. Second issue binding, without the gilt gun to the upper board. In a Fine dust jacket that is bright and unfaded. A superior copy of a common enough book. Published a year after Ian Fleming's death, "The Man with the Golden Gun" is the final James Bond novel written by its original creator. Fleming's health rapidly decreased while writing the book and though he finished a draft of the novel in 1964, he never fully re-worked it. After Fleming's death, the novel was published in the U.K. and then serialized in The Daily Express and Playboy. Ironically, in this novel, Bond is presumed dead before returning to London. He's been brainwashed by the Soviet Union and attempts to assassinate "M." After regaining his senses, Bond is sent to the Caribbean to assassinate Francisco Scaramanga, known as "The Man with the Golden Gun.". Fine in Fine dust jacket.