Ian Fleming | Goldfinger, 1959, first edition, second state, signed by Sean Connery

Ian Fleming

Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, second state, SIGNED BY SEAN CONNERY on a bookplate pasted to half-title, and additionally signed and/or inscribed by 13 cast members from Goldfinger (1964) on front free endpaper, title-page, and facing leaf, comprising: Honor Blackman ("You can turn off the charm | I'm immune..."), Shirley Eaton, Nikki Van der Zyl, Tania Mallet, Margaret Nolan, Nadja Regin, Burt Kwouk, Trisha Muller, Caron Gardner, Lesley Langley, Leslie Bricusse, Norman Wanstall and Peter Lamon, original black cloth, lettered in gilt, design to upper cover in blind and gilt, original dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, housed in bespoke cloth clamshell case with embossed dust-jacket design and magenta sides, plastic wallet of ephemera loosely inserted in box (full list of ephemera available upon request), very light spotting to endpapers, spine ends slightly bumped, dust-jacket slightly creased and browned at extremities with 12mm closed tear at head of spine

The second state, where the small area of detail on the skull is no longer present on the cloth binding. The ephemera notably includes a 6 cell cutting of 35mm Kodak film showing Bond, Goldfinger, and Oddjob standing in interior of Fort Knox (a gift from sound editor Norman Wanstall).

LITERATURE:

Gilbert A7a (1.2)

PROVENANCE:

Ownership inscription of "Michael Holmes | Rotterdam 1962" to front free endpaper