FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service . London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape, 1963. 8° (187 x 126mm). Title printed in red and black. Colour-printed half-tone frontispiece portrait of Fleming after Amherst Villiers. (Light marginal browning.) Original vellum-backed black boards by A.W. Bain & Co, Ltd, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper board with gunsmoke motif in white (spine lightly discoloured, unobtrusive light marking on lower board). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 106 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE VERSO OF THE TITLE and with the portrait by Amherst Villiers (not present in the first trade edition), in a special binding by Bain. On Her Majesty's Secret Service -- the eleventh of Fleming's James Bond books -- was the only one of the series to be issued in a limited edition. This copy is offered together with Richard Chopping's trompe-l'oeil dustwrapper for the trade edition, which was not used for the limited edition (dustwrapper a little browned, and with short chips and tears at edges). Hubin Crime Fiction 1749-1980 (1984) p.144.
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service . London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape, 1963. 8° (187 x 126mm). Title printed in red and black. Colour-printed half-tone frontispiece portrait of Fleming after Amherst Villiers. (Light marginal browning.) Original vellum-backed black boards by A.W. Bain & Co, Ltd, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper board with gunsmoke motif in white (spine lightly discoloured, unobtrusive light marking on lower board). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 106 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE VERSO OF THE TITLE and with the portrait by Amherst Villiers (not present in the first trade edition), in a special binding by Bain. On Her Majesty's Secret Service -- the eleventh of Fleming's James Bond books -- was the only one of the series to be issued in a limited edition. This copy is offered together with Richard Chopping's trompe-l'oeil dustwrapper for the trade edition, which was not used for the limited edition (dustwrapper a little browned, and with short chips and tears at edges). Hubin Crime Fiction 1749-1980 (1984) p.144.
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