The book starts out with Bond in Miami thinking back about a job in Mexico.

It is the seventh book in the sequence, originally published in 1959. Goldfinger is the fifth James Bond novel I have read. I was probably around 10 or 11 years old. Goldfinger was the first James Bond movie I ever saw. When ABC television in the 1970s would run a James Bond movie on Sunday night, it was an event. James Bond was one of the great cinematic characters growing up. Spy fiction is not one of my preferred genres though I do read a few. I picked up a stack of Signet/New American Library editions from the sixties at a library book sale a few years back. This entry was posted in Aylsham, Home Page on Jby Just Regional.I have been slowly working my through the James Bond books by Ian Fleming. The next one takes place on Thursday 30th July and Friday 31st July. Keys holds six two day book auctions every year. The novel was an instant success with both critics and the buying public, and introduced diminutive Korean character Oddjob. Goldfinger was Ian Fleming’s seventh Bond novel, and in 1964 was the third to be made into a movie as part of the Bond franchise, starring Sean Connery as Bond and German actor Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger, a gold tycoon who attempts to steal the US gold reserves from Fort Knox. The book, which had a pre-sale estimate of £500-£600, eventually sold for £1,800 (£2,115 including buyer’s premium). “But anything to do with James Bond has a high collectability quotient, and the bidding for this copy was heated and dramatic – worthy of a scene in a Bond film.” “Not all proof copies hold much value – in fact sometimes they are less valuable than the first edition itself,” said Keys head of books Robert Henshilwood. They are not intended for sale, and so are relatively rare. They are also given out to book reviewers, librarians and book dealers, to enable reviews and promotions to be completed prior to the publication of the book. Uncorrected proof copies are produced for review by copy-editors in order to weed out typos and grammatical errors. The 1959 proof copy of the seventh James Bond novel, published in 1959, was the star lot at a two day book auction at Keys Fine Art Auctioneers, in Aylsham. A rare, uncorrected proof copy of Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger has sold for a hammer price of £1,800 at auction in Norfolk – three times the pre-sale estimate.

Goldfinger 1959 novel