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Goldfinger
by Fleming, Ian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape, UK, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: Richard Chopping. Book First Printing. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding good, spine cocked. Dust Jacket quite worn at edges, small chips and tears. Spine quite browned. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Prior owner's inscription in ink, neat. Edges foxed and browned. Pages are still pretty fresh, the merest hint of uniform browning. Bumped at board corners, front embossed board in excellent order.. Jacket protected in non-adhesive plastic wrap. Illustrator: Richard Chopping..
Synopsis
In Ian Fleming's Goldfinger , we are introduced to Auric Goldfinger. This man is without a doubt the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced! This evil genius likes his cash in gold bars and his women dressed in gold paint - and now he is planning to steal all the gold in Fort Knox. That is, unless Secret Agent 007 can stop him! He must first take on two of the most memorable Bond villains: a human weapon named Oddjob and a luscious crime boss named Pussy Galore. Originally titled The Richest Man in the World, Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series (preceded by Dr. No and followed by For Your Eyes Only). Fleming structured the novel in three sections — “Happenstance,” “Coincidence,” and “Enemy Action” — which was how Goldfinger described Bond's three seemingly coincidental meetings with him. As a whole, the novel centers on James Bonds’ investigation into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, the richest man in England, who is also suspected of being connected to the Soviet counter-intelligence organization. As well as establishing the background to the smuggling operation, Bond uncovers a much larger plot: Goldfinger’s plan to steal the gold reserves of the United States from Fort Knox.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51232
- Title
- Goldfinger
- Author
- Fleming, Ian
- Illustrator
- Richard Chopping
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Bond Fiction; Fiction::Action Thriller Fiction; Richard Chopping Unbranded Fleming, Ian Goldfinger
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About the Seller
Shiny Owl Books
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Mona Vale, New South Wales
About Shiny Owl Books
Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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