On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

FLEMING, Ian [George Lazenby].

Item Number: 123691

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.

First edition of the tenth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original brown cloth. Signed on the front free endpaper, “Thanks Venice George Lazenby.” Lazenby was the actor who played 007 in the film adaptation. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the eleventh novel in the James Bonds series and the first since the debut of the Bond film. It became "an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic" (Biondi & Pickard, 48). "By the time of publication, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service had received nearly a quarter more subscriptions than any previous Fleming novel" (Lycett, 419).