She recalled that Fleming "always said he only wrote Casino Royale, the first Bond book, because he was on the plane to Jamaica and he read such a bad, boring thriller that he thought he could do better himself." He would write the Bond novels during his annual stays at Goldeneye, his home in Jamaica, thereafter sending the manuscript to Una for typing up.
Una started working in 1948 at Kemsley Newspapers and The Sunday Times where she was soon appointed secretary to Ian Fleming, where he worked throughout the 1950s. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Una, who again wrote the whole thing! from Ian Fleming." The recipient, Una Trueblood, whose surname was later appropriated by Fleming for the character of Mary Trueblood in Dr. There were 8 auctions (38%) with a price realized below the low estimate, 4 auctions (19%) exceeding the high estimates, and 9 auctions (43%) within the range of the low and high estimates.First edition of the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.
The overall average price was $872 and the median price realized for the book was $553. The lowest overall price realized in our sample was $80 and the highest overall price realized was $6688. We collected a sample of 41 auction results of Fleming, Ian's Goldfinger from 3 different auction houses. The American first edition first published in 1959 by Macmillan (New York) sell for as much as $500. The first edition published by Jonathan Cape (London) in 1959 with the author's signature have sold for nearly $7,000 ($2500 without the signature).
The evil antagonist, Auric Goldfinger, plans to enhance his obsessive collection of gold by robbing Fort Knox only to be foiled by the indomitable Bond. One of the most popular in the James Bond spy series, the novel Goldfinger continues to enthrall readers with Ian Fleming's seventh 007 adventure. First Edition Prices, Values and Auction Results
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