Copies signed by Fleming sell at many multiples of these numbers. įirst editions of Goldfinger with the dust jacket come up for auction several times each year, including at the big auction houses and generally sell for between $1,000 and $1,200 of late. edition for MacMillan and they produced 7,500 copies. first edition with the exception of the Macmillan logo replacing the Cape logo on the spine. The first American edition was published by MacMillan in 1959. Goldfinger was reprinted many, many times by several different publishers in both hard and softcover editions. A true first edition dust jacket has a price of 15s (15 shillings). Given the value of the books, there is a big incentive to do this, so be cautious. We would be cautious of any first edition of the book with a dust jacket, since many reprints were printed with a facsimile dust jacket and you have to verify that a later jacket was not put on a first edition. One of the issues to watch out for on such a famous book is the switching of jackets. First editions can be identified if the verso of the title page states “First Published 1959.” There were 24,000 copies of the first edition printed. The dust jacket contains an image of a skull with a red rose it its teeth and is illustrated below. The cover is black cloth with gilt lettering. Goldfinger was first published in 1959 by Jonathan Cape, London.
George’s.įleming tells us that Bond played his golf “on courses around London – Huntercombe, Swinley, Sunningdale, the Berkshire.”
Mark’s golf course in Sandwich, which is a fictional stand-in for Royal St. The book has three chapters devoted to golf where Goldfinger plays a match against Bond set at Royal St. The plot of the villain in the book, Auric Goldfinger, is to seize all the gold in Ft. Huntercombe is an inland course in Oxfordshire designed by Willie Park Jr., the same designer as Sunningdale (Old). George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent and Huntercombe Golf Club. Fleming worked in Britain’s naval intelligence service during the World War II and was a member of both the Royal St. Goldfinger is the seventh book in Fleming’s Bond series. Fleming’s novels have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond’s 007 character is one of the most famous writers of the 20 th century. World Renowned Writers on Golf – Ian Fleming
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