FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.
FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.

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FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.

8o. Original cloth like black boards, decorated in blind and gilt; pictorial dust jacket. Provenance: Muriel Williams (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FLEMING TO HIS SECRETARY MURIEL WILLIAMS on the front free endpaper: "To Muriel Williams who masters the money! from Ian Fleming."

Muriel Williams was Fleming's in-house private secretary and proof reader throughout his career as a novelist. See also lots 95 and 96.

This novel incited in Fleming even more excitement than usual. It is the longest of all Bond narratives. Fleming called Goldfinger "the next volume of my autobiography," (John Pearson The Life of Ian Fleming London, 1966). Anthony Burgess included this title in his 99 Novels: The Best in English since 1939.