Description
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.
