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 (19.5 x 13.5 cm); internally fresh; publisher's plain black cloth without the gun silhouette on the front board as usual, titles to spine in gilt, patterned endpapers, with the pictorial dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, some minor wear to corners and edges of spine, primarily a small tear (approx. 1cm) to rear head of spine, some very light offsetting to inner flaps, else a remarkably bright jacket, very good plus; 221pp.