Ian Fleming

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Jonathan Cape

1963

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First edition, Binding A, of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which was filmed by Eon Productions in 1969, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. OHMSS is the first novel in which Bond and Blofeld meet in person, with tragic consequences leading to a personal vendetta for 007.

  • Ian Fleming (English).
  • Dust jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping (English).
  • London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
  • pp.288.
  • Octavo.
  • Bound in publisher’s dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original dust jacket
  • Housed in a custom black cloth-covered clamshell box, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine.

Literature

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

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Dust jacket priced at 16s.

No inscriptions or signs of ownership.

Lightly used dust jacket with light spotting to rear panel and small chip to foot of spine.

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Dust Jacket, First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Thriller, Detective fiction, Fine bindings, Novels, Modern first editions

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