Ian Fleming – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – First UK Edition 1963
£1,250.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ by Ian Fleming, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1963. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, spotting to the top of the text block. In a similarly near fine unclipped wrapper with fading to the spine – a superb copy
Ian Fleming’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service sends James Bond into the Swiss Alps, where he infiltrates Blofeld’s mountaintop clinic while posing as a heraldry expert. The novel mixes espionage, glamour, danger and surprising vulnerability as Bond meets Tracy, one of Fleming’s most memorable heroines. Beneath the ski chases and villainous plots, it becomes a story about loneliness, loyalty and the possibility of love in a life built around risk.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ by Ian Fleming, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1963. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, spotting to the top of the text block. In a similarly near fine unclipped wrapper with fading to the spine – a superb copy
Ian Fleming’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service sends James Bond into the Swiss Alps, where he infiltrates Blofeld’s mountaintop clinic while posing as a heraldry expert. The novel mixes espionage, glamour, danger and surprising vulnerability as Bond meets Tracy, one of Fleming’s most memorable heroines. Beneath the ski chases and villainous plots, it becomes a story about loneliness, loyalty and the possibility of love in a life built around risk.
