Ian Fleming
James Bond On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Signed and Inscribed First Edition
Jonathan Cape
1963
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A first edition, first printing of the James Bond book On Her Majesty's Secret Service, by Ian Fleming, which has been inscribed by the author.
- Ian Fleming (English).
- London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
- Signed and inscribed to Joss Pender.
Inscribed by the author on the front free end-paper: "To/ Joss/ from/ Ian/ 1963."
With the former owner's name Pender and date in his own hand on the front paste-down.
Joss Pender was a member with Ian Fleming of the Royal St George's Golf Club in Kent. Pender and Fleming were contemporaries at Eton. They died within a year of each other at relatively young ages. The families were subsequently to be linked through marriage and Denison-Penders and Flemings can still be found playing golf together at Sandwich to this day.
Condition Report
Very GoodMarks to the boards in places.
Light foxing to the page block edges in a slightly spine-darkened dust wrapper.
Minor signs of age and handling.
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