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Auction archive: Lot number 60

FLEMING | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, first edition, the rare "B" binding

Estimate
£150 - £250
ca. US$194 - US$324
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 60

FLEMING | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, first edition, the rare "B" binding

Estimate
£150 - £250
ca. US$194 - US$324
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

IAN FLEMING ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1963 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, original black cloth (Gilbert's "B" binding with no priority), lettered in silver, design to upper cover in white, DUST-JACKET Gilbert notes that "...the vast majority of copies... were bound in... dark-brown or dark-grey cloth... but a very few books were bound in black cloth". This is one of those "very few" copies. LITERATURE: Gilbert A11a (1.2)Condition Reportminor soiling to endpapers, minor white marks to covers, head and foot of spine slightly bumped, dust-jacket slightly faded on spine, extremities worn and frayed with some loss to extremities The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The

Auction archive: Lot number 60
Auction:
Datum:
28 Oct 2020 - 11 Nov 2020
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

IAN FLEMING ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1963 8vo, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, original black cloth (Gilbert's "B" binding with no priority), lettered in silver, design to upper cover in white, DUST-JACKET Gilbert notes that "...the vast majority of copies... were bound in... dark-brown or dark-grey cloth... but a very few books were bound in black cloth". This is one of those "very few" copies. LITERATURE: Gilbert A11a (1.2)Condition Reportminor soiling to endpapers, minor white marks to covers, head and foot of spine slightly bumped, dust-jacket slightly faded on spine, extremities worn and frayed with some loss to extremities The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The

Auction archive: Lot number 60
Auction:
Datum:
28 Oct 2020 - 11 Nov 2020
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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