James Bond First Editions

On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding A. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping. No inscriptions. A moderately used copy with some spotting to endpapers, boards mottled, jacket with some chips to extremities, rubbed to joints, price clipped. An inexpensive copy. Published in 1963, this is the second part of a collection of James Bond books that has become known as the 'Blofeld' trilogy, sitting between Thunderball (1961) and You Only Live Twice (1964). The title was filmed by Eon Productions in 1969, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Item #60319

Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, A11a (1.1).

Price: £265.00