On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

FLEMING, Ian .

$19,500.00

Item Number: 148750

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.

Signed limited first edition, the only Bond title issued in a limited edition, number 96 of 285 examples of the eleventh Bond novel. Octavo, original half vellum, top edge gilt, with color frontispiece portrait of Fleming by Amherst Villiers. In fine condition with the original acetate in near fine condition. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.

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).