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.
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