A near fine example of one of Fleming's most famous Bond novels, a popularity further enhanced by the film starring the lamentably now late Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. Set in Fleming's adopted Jamaica this work introduces the master criminal Francisco 'Pistols' Scaramanga, a crack-shot assassin with a penchant for bling, an inability to whistle and, in the film version at least, a third nipple...

First edition, first impression; 8vo (195 x 135 mm); internally fresh; publisher's plain black boards, titles to spine gilt, patterned endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, small, closed tear with associated reinforcement internally, barely noticeable marks to spine of dust-jacket, otherwise without any loss, still a near-fine copy.

Gilbert A13a 1.3.