![]() However, Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy were published posthumously. Overall, Fleming wrote two short stories and twelve novels featuring the memorable spy. Imagined by Ian Fleming in 1953, James Bond is a fictional British spy who works for MI6. The book was made into the 1975 film of the same title starring Roger Moore as Bond, with an all-star cast including Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, and Hervé Villachaize. The first edition of The Man with the Golden Gun, published in 1965 by Jonathan Cape, London, had a print run of 82,000 copies. Published in 1965, the year after the author’s death, the book tracks 007 as he travels to Fleming’s beloved Jamaica to neutralize a dangerous assassin, nicknamed after his beloved gold-plated pistol.īecause Fleming wrote this Bond adventure while ill-the author "was only able to work on it for one and a half hours a day"-the publisher hired novelist Kingsley Amis to complete and revise it (Black, 75). ![]() This is the first edition of Fleming’s final Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun. ![]() Octavo, in original dust jacket with custom gilt embossed slipcase. ![]()
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