![]() A best-seller upon its release, it became the third James Bond film in 1964 starring Sean Connery. When the actual Goldfinger found out his name was being used, he threatened to sue Fleming, and the matter was ultimately settled out of court. Englehard, Fleming named his villain after British architect Erno Goldfinger. Based upon American gold tycoon Charles W. With the lazy precision of Fate, this, Ian Fleming's longest narrative of secret service adventure, brings James Bond to grips with the most powerful criminal the world has ever knownGoldfinger, the man who had planned the 'Crime de la Crime'. Goldfinger originally bore the title The Richest Man in the World. It was this role, with its contracted three month break every winter to allow Fleming to holiday in Jamaica, that gave Fleming the opportunity to write the planned spy novel that would become Casino Royale. ![]() His father, the 1st Viscount Kemsley, had given Ian Fleming his first job as a journalist when he employed him as the Foreign Manager for the Kemsley newspaper group. He finances his operation, it is believed by the. ![]() Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Lionel, Something more to read! From Ian.” The recipient, Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley was a politician and newspaper editor. Bond learns that Goldfinger is one of the richest men in the world, and is obsessed with gold, which he hoards. $35,000.00 Item Number: 140248įirst edition of the seventh novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. ![]()
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