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Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, signed

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first edition, inscribed dedication from the author on front free endpaper, original boards, very good, dust-jacket, frayed with minor loss at corner tips and spine ends, small closed tear near upper fore-corner of upper panel, slight rubbing to extremities, a few light marks visible on lower panel, overall though very good, 8vo, 1959.

***The inscription reads "For / Agatha Soames / to the Artist / from / The Author!". An important association copy. Edith Mary Agatha Soames (1886-1962) was a first cousin of Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Christopher Soames, M.P. - Fleming actually named one of the characters in the novel Soames: when asked for her name, Tilly Masterton gives James Bond an alias "The name's Soames. Miss Tilly Soames." See also preceding lot..

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