The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

I do not know why they chose this singer or this tune. So awful, so ridiculous, so completely.I.words do not exist yet for the sensation of revolted, horrified, amused, aesthetically affronted.well.

Britt Ekland, Peter Sellers' ex, plays the stupidest secret agent imaginable, who manages to get herself locked in the trunk of the baddies' FLYING AMC MATADOR *oh dear goddesses please keep my dinner down* with the macguffin in her handbag which she hasn't had the common sense to drop.well, it's ridiculous even for a Bond movie. Tattoo from Fantasy Island is the houseboy to the baddie, resulting in a regrettable lack of hunky blond henchrats for me to ogle. She's just luminous in or out of her clothes.

Then there's the damnfool idiot chop-socky pandering, and the concomitant 'Oriental' stereotypes.ugh. Oh me oh my.an AMC Hornet, an AMC Matador, Simon Templar.I mean Roger Moore!.wearing loser suits.I mean leisure suits!.and the most horrendously offensive Southern stereotype sheriff in the history of moviemaking adds up to some seriously noxious stuff. The 1974 film, which is what I'm rating, is more or less a 2-star experience. Made into the 1975 film of the same title starring Roger Moore as Bond, with an all-star cast which included Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams and Hervé Villachaize.I felt generous. A very bright example of the rare first state binding. Copies tend to turn up most frequently in the extremities of the British Commonwealth, e.g., South Africa, Kenya, Australia and New Zealand” (Biondi & Pickard, 50). The Cape archives do not reveal how many copies were produced with the golden gun stamping. There are certainly fewer than the 290-odd of the signed limited edition of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

“This issue with the golden gun on the casing is the rarest, by far, of the Bond books. The publisher set out to publish the embossed gun but the cost proved prohibitive to continue, so the gilt-stamping was ceased, and the remaining copies were published with plain front boards. An excellent near fine example with the gilt bright and in fine condition in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. First edition, first state with the golden gun embossed on the front boards.

The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming