FLEMING | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, first edition, the rare "B" binding

IAN FLEMING

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1963

8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, original black cloth (Gilbert's "B" binding with no priority), lettered in silver, design to upper cover in white, DUST-JACKET

Gilbert notes that "...the vast majority of copies... were bound in... dark-brown or dark-grey cloth... but a very few books were bound in black cloth". This is one of those "very few" copies.

LITERATURE:

Gilbert A11a (1.2)