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Ian Fleming – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – First UK Edition INSCRIBED
£17,500.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ by Ian Fleming published by Jonathan Cape in 1963. A very good copy (marks to the boards in places) and light foxing to the page block edges in a VG+ slightly spine-darkened D/W. 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.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ by Ian Fleming published by Jonathan Cape in 1963. A very good copy (marks to the boards in places) and light foxing to the page block edges in a VG+ slightly spine-darkened D/W. 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.
