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Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2nd impression. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally, There is a small stain in the front end page. Otherwise clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*06/06/2023. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are edge rubbed with some tanning and marks. The binding is secure. Tanning on the end pages. Ink signature from a previous owner on the front end page. No other inscriptions or annotations. r*18/09/2023. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1963.
Price: US$21.62 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1963. First Edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with silver lettering to spine. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Heavy cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Liquid staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Minor dog-eared corners. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends with splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Water stain to front board. Wear marks overall. Book has a heavy forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
FLEMING, IAN. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$27.51 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W & FEP, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, white wavy line illus to front board, 288pp, VG (spine sl cocked, light staining/discolouration to boards, sl scuffing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, ffep missing)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$28.22 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1963. 3rd Impression. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Thumb-marking present to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends with splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Dents to both boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$30.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published 1963, fourth impression. Neat previous owner name stamped on front free end paper and next 2 title pages. Otherwise pages bright and clean. Hardback boards covers bright and clean in very good + condition.
Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1963.
Price: US$30.13 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1963. 4th Impression. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$33.41 + shipping
Description: 12mo. original charcoal cloth (trifling leaf edge speckling, else clean & bright throughout; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 288. A near fine copy of an early issue.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$38.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1963. Fourth Impression. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with silver lettering. White ski line motif to front. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Light spotted marks and soiling to boards, with notable sunning to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service [Hardcover] Ian Fleming. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1963 New American Library - hard cover - first edition 2nd printing - no dust jacket - some staining to cover and page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1963.
Price: US$42.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1963. Third Impression. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Clean pages with mild foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription and smudging to front pastedown. Mild water staining to p.158-9. Small amount of white paint to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Moderate water stains to front board. Book has forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape (1963), London, 1963.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy (stamped inside on title page and last page of text; library bookplate on front pastedown; library sticker (? ) removed from front endpaper. Glossy illustrated cover (a hand with a pencil drawing a heraldric illustration entitled : The World is Not Enough"; blurbs for 4 Fleiming James Bond titles on rear) ; some soiling and wear on cover. No later printings listed on copyright page.
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$54.99 + shipping
Description: 8vo, black cloth, very good in scruffy unclipped dust jacket. pp 288. VG+++/VG+++. [P-12]
Seller: Librairie Pique-Puces, Belfort, France
FLEMING, IAN. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$55.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 288pp; A bright copy in an unclipped sunned d/w with some small stains; Internally bright; Size: 12mo
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
Fleming, Ian:. On Her Majesty`s Secret Service. London, Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$56.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 288 S., 20cm Zustand: silber, weißgeprägter Einband --- Inhalt: On Her Majesty`s Secret Service. 1963 (dt. 007 James Bond und sein gefährlichster Auftrag. Bern und München 1964; später unter dem Titel James Bond, im Dienst ihrer Majestät. WU3-6 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 400
Seller: Antiquariat Biebusch, Lilienthal, Germany
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - FOURTH IMPRESSION. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - 1ST EDITION - FOURTH IMPRESSION - A very good or better book, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. There is light foxing to the top page block, else a clean copy, in a very good reprint dust wrapper, with no loss, but the wrapper is slightly smaller than the book by about three millimeters. There is light soiling to the rear panel, but with a very clean spine. The publisher's printed price of 16s.net is present.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The boards have been rebound in full recent leather. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are neat, crisp and complete. The binding is secure. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
FLEMING, IAN:. On Her Majesty?s Secret Service. London, Jonathan Cape, 1963 3rd impression, 1963.
Price: US$73.12 + shipping
Description: Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine and silver ?Ski-Tracks? design to front. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW Some minor rubbing to corners and edges, a few tiny nicks lower spine, rear lower edge faint water mark In protective sleeve. NOT price clipped.) Cloth clean and smart. A minor splash mark lower outer page edges. Else pages all very clean and tight. 288pp.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - rare UK w/Dust Jacket. Jonathan Cape (U.K.), 1963.
Price: US$74.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: IAN FLEMING - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, published by Jonathan Cape, copyright 1963, Second Printing (states "First Published 1963" & "Second Impression April 1963" on copyright page), list in front of book to "The Spy Who Loved Me," DJ rear flap lists to "Octopussy & The Living Daylights," white endpapers, black boards with 'ski pattern' design on front board and silver lettering on spine, Richard Chopping illustrated DJ. Book has no creased page corners, no foxing to pages or endpapers, slight foxing/age darkening/dust soiling to outer page edges, barest hint of age darkening lines to free endpapers (caused by reaction from DJ flaps), no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps/stickers inside, no internal hinge splitting, no wear to board edges, board corners or to spine tips, couple of moisture spots to rear board otherwise no soiling or staining to boards, no bumped board corners, no wear/oxidizing to gilt lettering to spine. Dust Jacket has sliver losses at spine tips & bottom of front flap crease, crease to right of spine otherwise no chipping, tearing or creasing, slight wear to spine tips, almost no wear to front flap crease, no wear to left/right on spine, almost no edge wear, very slight spine sun darkening, spine sun fading to title lettering (another common defect with this DJ), no dust soiling (another common defect with this dust jacket as the colors are light and the rear panel is white), faint moisture outline marks at spine tips otherwise no staining or soiling, no foxing to panels/spine, no scotch tape marks to flaps. Overall a FINE- book in VG-/VG condition dust jacket (price clipped) of an Ian Fleming U.K. printing hardcover book. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for sale.
Seller: Far North Collectible Books, Anchorage, AK, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards have a little edge and surface wear with a bump to the top front corner and light rubbing to the lettering on the spine. A few spots and marks to the page edges. Previous owner's book plate to front free end paper. Wrinkle running down the centre of the front pastedown and another across the top corner of the rear pastedown. Light crease to the top left corner of the title page and there are also creases to the bottom corners of two pages. There are a few small stains through the book on pages 43 and 84, on pages 234 to 237 and at the bottom of page 277. The pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. No jacket.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd impression. A very good clean copy in original boards.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book has slight lean. Name inked out on front end paper. Shallow chipping to spine ends of jacket. Dime-sized chip to middle of jacket on spine with tape repair to back of jacket. Browning to back panel of jacket and on spine.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publication of 288 pages. The dust jacket is in fair to good condition, original jacket with staining. The boards are in good condition. There is little foxing on the block of the book. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$106.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! British first edition, first printing. Minor wear to spine ends and edges of jacket. Corners of jacket are worn. Light soling to back of jacket. Bottom spine area of jacket has a 2-1/2" line where a narrow line of paint is. Some of it has been removed but top layer of jacket paper is missing. Jacket is neatly price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark. Previous owners name on front end page.
Seller: The Book Scouts, Sanborn, NY, U.S.A.
FLEMING, IAN. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$106.99 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, white line/decoration to frotn board, 288pp, VG (spine sl cocked, sl bruising to board edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edgeslight tanning & foxing to eps, v minor foxing to prelims & terminals, v occasional sm brown markings to pages- text unaffected) in d/w, VG- (all corners clipped, heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, light fading to spine, moderate foxing & soiling)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$109.03 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping. A well used copy; inside cloth joint showing, tape marks to paste-downs, contents thumbed, jacket rather poor, with some loss to spine, old taped repair to front, price clipped.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in the original (not price-clipped) dust jacket. The jacket is a touch insect worn and marked, but remains whole and intact. The boards are strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owner's stamp marking to the front end page but there are no other markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are neat and complete. Securely bound and presents handsomely in cellophane. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. Brown boards, silver waved line to front, titles in gilt to spine, original dust jacket unclipped, price of 16s, 288pp, dust jacket is worn with some loss to top and bottom of the spine, tanned with a few stains, top edge and fore edge of book are tanned, with the exception of very light spotting towards the front the pages are clean and bright. Signature of previous owner's to ffep and date 1963.
Seller: Scrivener's Books and Bookbinding, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$117.00 + shipping
Description: Solid copy but for light spine lean. Neat signature of former owner on front pastedown. Silver lettering on spine and design on front or top board. Very faint foxing to top edge. No other issues. Jacket is without flaw and professionally made with transparent mylar to protect it. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated 'Third Impression May 1963.' Tear to edge of dust jacket on the back, a few smudges to back cover of the dust jacket. Faint stains to page edges, '16s. net.' on the front flap of the dust jacket.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Secret. Jonathan Cape, London, UK, 1963.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. 288pp. In black cloth effect boards with white swirl on front panel and gilt lettering on spine. 12mo. Cloth gently rounded at spine tips. Very slightly cocked. Some a faint and occasional spotting on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn dust jacket, with some chipping on edges and folds, spine sunned, reader's creases, toned on verso and over spine. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Jonathan Cape / Book Club, 1963.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Description: Book club edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$134.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ist edition, 2nd impression Black boards with silver lettering, ski track design to front, very good condition very slight bumping to lower front corner. Spine undamaged, pages clean and bright. No tape, inscriptions, notes, price clipping or marking, Dustjacket has marking to spine and back cover, wear to edges and slight tears to end of spine. Some tanning to the spine. Dustjacket with iconic illustration by Richard Chopping. More images available on request
Seller: Henfold Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
FLEMING, IAN. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON., 1963.
Price: US$149.00 + shipping
Description: THIS SOUGHT AFTER FIRST EDITION, APRIL 1963, JAMES BOND BOOK, IS IN MUCH BETTER THAN NEAR FINE CONDITION IN NEAR FINE PRICED CLIPPED D/J. NO MARKINGS WHATSOEVER. FURTHER INQUIRIES OR SCANS ON REQUEST, THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping priced at 16s. A used copy/collection filler. Book has soiling to fore-edge, blue ink inscription to flyleaf with 'Please return' messages, jacket with chips and tears, similarly worn/soiled to fore-edge. An inexpensive copy of the first edition in jacket. Published in 1963, this is the second part of a collection of James Bond books that has become known as the 'Blofeld' trilogy, sitting between Thunderball (1961) and You Only Live Twice (1964). The title was filmed by Eon Productions in 1969, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition second impression from 1963, the book is fine, pages clean, binding firm, no markings, the jacket is clean and unmarked, it appears to be trimmed by 3mm. now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Price: US$166.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (16s). Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), few (largest approx. 2cm) tears, patchy browning (including to spine), rubbing/loss to top (picture) surface to front, patchy creasing/rubbing to edges, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, few marks, the odd spot of foxing, pushing/bumping to corners, creasing/rubbing/browning to front/back inner flaps and is in only fair condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with the odd small bump to edges, a hint of pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are slightly tanned. Few marks/stains/odd spot of foxing to lower edge of pages. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and tops. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. Small crease to top corner of a few pages. Small thin pen mark to inside front board and to front end-paper. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
IAN FLEMING. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1963.
Price: US$166.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: THIRD IMPRESSION PUBLISHED IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST IMPRESSION, HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. SOME MINOR EDGE WEAR TO JACKET WITH SOME CHIPPING AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE ON JACKET, SPINE OF JACKET SLIGHTLY BROWNED WITH A FEW MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKET, NAME TO FRONT ENDPAPER. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY IN A VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majestys Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First / First - VG + condition. Internally bright and clean. Very good + . Corners Head / tail of spine minor bumping. Overall a VG copy
Seller: William Collins Rare and Collectable Books, Grimsby, United Kingdom
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: IAN FLEMING - THRILLING CITIES, published by Jonathan Cape, copyright 1963, First Printing First State ("First Published 1963" at top of copyright page with no references to 1964 or to subsequent printings), several glossy internal pages of black & white photographs, black endpapers, list in front of book and on DJ rear flap to "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," white & light grey textured quarterbound boards with gold gilt lettering on spine, 30s net price on DJ front flap. FIRST STATE BOOK - NO ERRATUM SLIP (OR EVIDENCE THAT IT HAS BEEN REMOVED) ON TABLE OF PICTURES PAGE AT REAR OF BOOK AND GLOSSY COVERING TO DJ DOES NOT EXTEND OVER FRONT FLAP. Book has no creased page corners, black top stain has no fading or drop spots, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, hint of dust soiling to outer page edges (no age darkening), no former owners markings or used bookstore stamps/stickers inside, clean endpapers with no soiling or discoloration or scotch tape marks, no hinge splitting, no wear to board edges, corners or spine tips, no bumped board corners, no staining/discoloration to boards, no wear/oxidation to gilt lettering to spine or front board. Dust Jacket has no chipping, tearing or creasing, hint of wear to spine tips, no wear to front flap crease (just a hint at flap crease corners), NO SPINE SUN FADING - THE PINK IS MUCH BRIGHTER THAN THE ABOVE SCAN SHOWS - I HAVE YET TO FIND A SCANNER IN 25+ YEARS THAT CAN PROPERLY SCAN THE COLOR PINK (common defect - the spine is often faded all the why to white so the lettering can't be seen), nick along top edge on front panel otherwise no edge wear, couple of tiny spots to front panel otherwise no soiling or staining, no scotch tape marks to flaps. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in FINE-/N-FINE condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of an Ian Fleming U.K. 1st printing hardcover book. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for sale.
Seller: Far North Collectible Books, Anchorage, AK, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: IAN FLEMING - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, published by Jonathan Cape, copyright 1963, First Printing (states "First Published 1963" At top of copyright page with no references to subsequent printings), white endpapers, list in front of book & DJ rear flap to "The Spy Who Loved Me", Black boards with white "ski track" design to front board and silver gilt lettering on spine. Richard Chopping illustrated DJ, 16s net. Book has one creased page corner, no foxing to pages, hint of foxing to free endpapers, hint of dust soiling/foxing/age darkening to outer page edges, no soiling or scotch tape marks to endpapers, no former ownership markings or used bookstore stamps inside, no internal hinge splitting, no wear to board edges, board corners or spine tips (minor bumping to spine tips), no bumped board corners, no oxidizing/wear to gilt lettering on spine, no soiling/discoloration to boards. Dust jacket has no chipping, tearing or creasing, slight wear to spine tips with with 'v' losses to couple of spine tip corners, almost no wear to front flap crease (just at flap crease corners), slight wear to left/right on spine (primarily bottom left), no edge wear, slight spine sun darkening (common defect with this DJ - normally the spine is found badly age darkened), foxing spots primarily around flap creases otherwise no soiling or staining, almost no dust rubbing to panels & spine (common defect with this light colored DJ). Overall a FINE- book in VG+ condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of any Ian Fleming original U.K. Cape hardcover book. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for sale.
Seller: Far North Collectible Books, Anchorage, AK, U.S.A.
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$250.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition. Binding secure. Light spotting to endpapers and a few specks to fore-edges. Dustwrapper complete but some light edge wear. and has slight fading to dustwrapper spine. Presentable in new Brodart plastic overwrapper.
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Cape, 1963.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: April 1963 Jonathan Cape second impression in lightly shelf worn price intact jacket. No marks. B76 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Ian Fleming. On Her Majestry's Secret Sevice. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first edition book with original dust jacket. Pages have some browning to edges of page and the front blank endpaper has been torn out.Thre dust jacket has not been priced clipped and price is 16s net. Overall a good copy.
Seller: 1st editions, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the Bond classic, published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1963. Some foxing to the top of the pages, the jacket slightly faded and marked on verso. Owner inscription inside. Otherwise a tight and clean copy throughout.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. THRILLING CITIES. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, first printing, in the first state dust-jacket with laminated rear flap. 224 pages. 48 pages of b/w photographs. Original marbled-effect boards with white cloth spine, gilt lettered and ruled; top edge stained black; with the unclipped dust-jacket by Paul Davis. Jacket rather faded along the spine, slightly rubbed at edges, and with a few lights spot of foxing on the flaps. Errata slip tipped in at page 223, as required. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. The author of the James Bond novels describes the cities in the world he finds the most exciting, many of which featured in his 007 stories: Hong Kong, Macao, Tokyo, Honolulu, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Chicago, New York, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Naples, Monte Carlo. The book was published just after On Her Majesty s Secret Service and before You Only Live Twice.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$349.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: IAN FLEMING - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, Taiwanese "Pirate" Edition circa 1963 (per date on title page), white endpapers, dark green (darker than shown in the attached scan) cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. NOTE - DUE TO THE IMMENSE POPULARITY OF IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND BOOKS FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF THE FIRST JAMES BOND MOVIE "DR. NO" IN 1962 AND JFK ANNOUNCING THAT FLEMING WAS HIS FAVORITE WRITER, FLEMING'S JAMES BOND BOOKS WERE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BY U.S. SERVICEMEN STATIONED OVERSEAS IN THE ASIAN PACIFIC THEATER. TO FILL THAT NEAT "PIRATE" EDITIONS OF FLEMING'S BOOKS (AS WELL AS NUMEROUS OTHER POPULAR AUTHORS OF THE TIME) WERE CREATED - PRINTED IN ENGLISH AND USING VARIOUS TYPE SET PAGES AND DUST JACKET COVER ART (THEY WOULD USE WHATEVER VERSION OF THE BOOK THEY COULD FIND - WHETHER IT WAS A U.S. HARDCOVER OR A U.K. PAPERBACK) - IN THE CASE OF ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE THEY USED THE U.K. JONATHAN CAPE 1ST BUT THE DUST JACKET USED THE U.K. NAL PRINTING (THESE "TAIWANESE" EDITIONS ARE MOST EASILY IDENTIFIED BY THE UNINITIATED BY THE PRESENCE OF A BLOCK OF ASIAN CHARACTERS - SOMETIMES ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE BUT USUALLY AT THE BOTTOM LEFT ON THE REAR ENDPAPER). WHILE THESE BOOKS HAVE NEVER BEEN PARTICULARLY COMMON (THE ONLY WAY THEY TURN UP FOR SALE IS IF A SERVICEMAN DECIDED TO BRING THE BOOK BACK TO THE U.S.), UP UNTIL ABOUT 3-4 YEARS AGO THESE BOOKS ROUTINELY SOLD FOR $100 OR LESS. NOW THESE BOOKS ARE NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND (AND ARE MUCH MORE COMMONLY KNOWN/COLLECTED). Book has no creased page corners, flat white pages with sharp outer page corners, no foxing to pages, endpapers or outer page edges, hint of dust soiling/age darkening to outer page edges, endpapers are clean and free from any discoloration (very tiny tear - likely a publishing defect at the top of rear internal hinge), no former owner's markings or used bookseller stamps/stickers inside, no wear to board edges, corners or spine tips, no bumped board corners, no discoloration/soiling to boards, no age darkening to spine. Dust jacket has largisth "v" losses at top spine tip otherwise no chipping or tearing or creasing (very poor paper was used on these DJs and as a result they are extremely prone to tearing and chipping), slight wear to spine tips, no wear to front flap crease (just at nick losses at flap crease corner), no wear to left/right on spine, no spine sun fading, no color rubbing, no age foxing spots panels, almost no no dust soiling to panel/spine, some edge wear (again common due to the poor printing quality of the paper and glossy covering used), no soiling or staining. Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book in VG+/FINE- condition dust jacket (not price clipped) of an Ian Fleming scarce "Taiwanese pirate" edition hardcover book. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for sale.
Seller: Far North Collectible Books, Anchorage, AK, U.S.A.
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FLEMING, Ian [288] pp. Jonathan Cape 1963 Second Impression 7 3/4" x 5 3/8"
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Fleming, Ian. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Custom Clamshell Case Only. London, [1963, Book Date]: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First Edition Clamshell Case. Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First Edition. Elegant Black Nuba® & Fine Blue Cloth, Custom Gilt-Stamped at the spine. Embossed multi-layered, [sculpted] complex dustwrapper inspired design on the side. Finished in black velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition of Fleming's eleventh 007 novel. This case available in cloth or Nuba®. [A fine leather version also available. Please inquire about cost.] All 14 Fleming titles available individually. Full sets available.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service [First Edition]. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1963.
Price: US$352.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1963. First Edition. 288 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth with gilt lettering. Slight creasing to title page. Pages are bright and clear with mild foxing and tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild rubbing, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has mild tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped dust jacket, price still present 16s net. Panels whave moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall. Visible splitting to joints.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Elegantly bound in half black oasis morocco over black cloth sides, with gilt titles, raised bands to spine, cream endpapers, original gilt foil-stamped covers bound in at rear. A clean copy, inside and out. Near fine, in an attractive recent leather binding. The title was filmed by Eon Productions in 1969, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. OHMSS is the first novel in which Bond and Blofeld meet in person, with tragic consequences leading to a personal vendetta for 007. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. Thrilling Cities. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first impression of Ian Fleming's travelogue regarding a five-week all expenses paid trip to thirteen cities around the globe. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the price unclipped first state dust wrapper. Featuring all of the necessary issue points, including laminated rear flap of dust wrapper, black endpapers, tipped in errata slip to page 233, and the copyright page stating 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'.Originally published as two series of articles for the Sunday Times, this work describes Fleming's trip to thirteen cities from Honk Kong to Monte Carlo. The trip allowed Fleming to gather material to furnish the research and settings for five of the subsequent Bond novels, and seven short stories.A lovely example of this important travelogue, key to understanding the world of James Bond.Illustrated with numerous photographic plates. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards, and price unclipped dust wrapper. Minor discolouration to back strip tail, with light marks to front joint. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with edgewear to entirety of dust wrapper head. Tape residue marks to front and rear flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second Printing. DJ in archival cover tiny corner chips. Gift inscriptions and former bookseller sticker on inside front cover.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
FLEMING, Ian.. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. , 1963.
Price: US$400.98 + shipping
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, (1963). 8vo. Orig. cloth-effect papered boards with ski-trail blocked in white on front cover, and silver title to spine. In price-clipped illust. dustjacket (top of spine chipped). (288pp.). 1st edition. Fine in its rather nice original dustjacket designed by Richard Chopping. NOTE: The second of the series of Bond novels known as the 'Blofeld' trilogy (falling between Thunderball and You Only Live Twice). The 1969 film of the same name, starring George Lazenby, was voted the 'Greatest Bond Movie' by 007 Magazine (Summer 2012).
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$416.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - A very good book, bound in the publisher's black cloth boards with bright white lettering to the spine. The boards are in very good condition with a small bump to the bottom corner of the front panel, also with just mild pushing to the spine tip. Internally, the pages are clean, with some mild foxing to page blocks. The inner text is clean, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also in very good condition with miniscule chipping to the spine tips, but with no other loss or tears. There is some soiling to the top corner of rear panel, also to the top of the spine, but overall a very good dust wrapper with bright red lettering present to the spine. The publisher's printed price of 16s.net present to the front flap
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A', British export/colonial copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's brown cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in the correct original jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping. Contents clean, no ink names, vintage (original?) pencil price to fly, edges gently toned/spotted, in a used yet presentable wrapper with a few small nick, some neat secured tears, browning to rear. This copy was exported and sold by McGills Bookstore, Melbourne, Australia (with their agency stamp to f.e.p.), price clipped accordingly. Very good. UK Cape editions of Fleming's bestselling James Bond series were imported by British overseas territories across the globe[Gilbert], as demonstrated by the present copy. McGills was one of Melbourne's oldest retail stores, which closed in 2009 after 149 years of trade. Gilbert A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1st EDITION). Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding firm. Slight lean. Light tanning to edges. Previous owner inscription to front pastedown. Brown cloth boards with white ski illustration to front. Gold gilt titles to spine slightly faded. Light chipping to dust jacket edges. Tanning to spine (dj). Not price-clipped. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her majesty's Secret Service - UK 1st. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Uk edition first impression from 1963 in Near fine condition. there is a slight stain to the front and rear endpages, which is also visible on the inside of the jacket, no markings to all other pages, the binding is firm, The jacket has some very slight marking, now in removable protective sleeve.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FLEMING, Ian [288] pp. Jonathan Cape 1963 Seventh Impression 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" Jacket design by Richard Chopping
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$481.04 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Elegantly bound in half black oasis morocco over black cloth sides, with gilt titles, raised bands to spine, cream endpapers, original gilt foil-stamped covers bound in at rear. A few light reading mark/spots within, exterior as new. A very good copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Jon Gilbert's copy, with his pencilled note, bookplate and ownership signature to free endpaper. The title was filmed by Eon Productions in 1969, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. OHMSS is the first novel in which Bond and Blofeld meet in person, with tragic consequences leading to a personal vendetta for 007. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FLEMING, Ian [288] pp. Jonathan Cape 1963 Second Impression 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" Jacket design by Richard Chopping
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$501.22 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover : pp. (8) 9-288 : plain e.p.s : brown cloth-effect paper with lettering in silver foil to backstrip : white wavy lines to top board : in first state dust jacket priced 16s with the small Cape clips to the four corners. Light foxing to top edge; slight creasing to edge of jacket at the head of the spine and small vertical tear to at the tail of the top joint. [Gilbert A11a (1.1)]. First Edition, first printing, first state.
Seller: Archives Fine Books (ANZAAB, ILAB), Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Price: US$506.69 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's brown cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in the correct original jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 16s. Lightly handled. Near fine but for owner markings, in similar jacket. Formerly the property of Wing Commander Edward Jackson, RAF Waltham (where HRH Prince Philip learned to fly), with his dated signature, and series number to book and jacket spine. Previously sold by Francis Edwards, ABA (pencilled catalogue number and slip). The second James Bond novel to feature Ernst Stavro Blofeld, arch nemesis of agent 007. Gilbert A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London UK, 1963.
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good condition On Her Majesty's Secret Service with unclipped dust jacket. Bright boards and contents with minimal wear. Light foxing on the page ends. The bright dust jacket has faded spine and minimal wear. 8vo 288pp
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp 288. Bound in brown cloth covered hard boards with silver block to the spine and white ski tracks across the upper board. In the original dust jacket, un-clipped and correctly priced 16s. The book has an inscription to the front paste-down, largely hidden behind the jacket flap and a little pushing to the spine ends, grades Near Fine. Jacket is Very Good Plus, red not faded on the spine. net
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1963.
Price: US$588.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition: octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine titles and an upper board decoration; 288pp. Mild wear; slightly rolled; some very light corner-bumping; spine extremities a little softened; a small bump to the lower hinge; text block edges lightly toned with a small mark to the fore-edge and top edge lightly dusted; very light offset to the endpapers; previous owner's name in pencil to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and edgeworn with some foxing; spine panel and flap-turns mildly sunned; a small hole to the upper flap-turn; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene wrap. Very good.
Seller: Morocco Books and Collectibles, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition, first published 1963 stated on copyright page. Book very good, some foxing on edges, very minor foxing along rear gutter, former owner's name on front free end paper, very slightly leaning. Dust jacket very good, some tanning and minor wear.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
IAN FLEMING. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1963.
Price: US$609.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. SOME MINOR EDGE WEAR TO JACKET WITH A SMALL CLOSED TEAR TO TOP FRONT HINGE ON SPINE OF JACKET, FEW MINOR CREASES AT TOP EDGE ON FRONT OF JACKET WITH SOME MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKET, TWO OLD TAPE MARKS TO FRONT ENDPAPER, FRONT HINGE COCKED SLIGHTLY FORWARD,VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR BLEMISH TO PAGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY WITH MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN & NO INSCRIPTIONS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$634.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine first edition of the tenth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, a thrilling part of the Blofeld trilogy, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper by Richard Chopping'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' is the tenth Fleming James Bond novel, the second in what is known as the 'Blofeld' trilogy, following Bond on his search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld.This novel was later adapted into a film in 1969, the sixth in the James Bond series, featuring George Lazenby as his first and only appearance as Bond. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A couple of very light marks to the boards. Some spots to the fore edge. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn with a few small chips and closed tears. Light spots and marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On her majesty`s secret service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$681.29 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the eleventh novel in the James Bond series written by Ian Fleming (1908-1964), the original English of which was first published in England on 1 April 1963 as On Her Majesty's Secret Service.The novel was filmed in 1969, starring George Lazenby. Here is the English first edition from 1963, with dust jacket, designed by Richard Chopping, published by Jonathan Cape, London, 288 pages Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät ist der elfte Roman der von Ian Fleming (1908-1964) geschriebenen James-Bond-Reihe, dessen englisches Original erstmals am 1. April 1963 unter dem Namen On Her Majestys Secret Service in England veröffentlicht wurde.Der Roman wurde 1969 verfilmt, die Hauptrolle wurde von George Lazenby gespielt. Hier ist die englische Erstausgabe von 1963, mit Schutzumschlag, designed von Richard Chopping, erschienen im Verlag Jonathan Cape, London, 288 Seiten
Seller: BIRKBOOKS, Oberkirch, Germany
Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$737.59 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, a couple of faint spots to final text-page, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original black boards, lettering on backstrip in silver and design to upper board in white, slight lean to spine, top corners gently knocked, edges faintly spotted, neat ownership inscription to flyleaf, a couple of faint spots to endpapers, dustjacket by Richard Chopping, slightly browned around the backstrip panel, tocuh of creasing to margin of front panel, a couple of miniscule nicks, very good. (Gilbert A11(1.1))
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
IAN FLEMING. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 1963.
Price: US$737.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PRICED AT 16s. HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. SOME VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR TO JACKET WITH A COUPLE OF VERY SMALL CLOSED TEARS AT EDGES OF JACKET, FEW MINOR MARKS TO JACKET, [MOSTLY TO REAR] LIGHT WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF CLOTH SPINE, NAME & DATE OF 1963 TO FRONT ENDPAPER WITH VERY LIGHT BROWNING TO ENDPAPERS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY WITH TEXT PAGES CLEAN & NO CHIPPING TO JACKET. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition, with First Published 1963 stated on copyright page. Book near fine, very faint foxing to rear free end paper and rear paste-down, page edges show some minor soiling. Dust jacket very good, some wear, foxing to hinges, some tanning, rubbing, tiny holes at hinges, small water stain to middle of dj at front panel.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FLEMING, Ian [288] pp. Jonathan Cape 1963 First Edition 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" Jacket design by Richard Chopping
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FLEMING, Ian [288] pp. Jonathan Cape 1963 First Edition 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" Jacket design by Richard Chopping
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FLEMING, Ian [288] pp. Jonathan Cape 1963 First Printing 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" Jacket design by Richard Chopping
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.42 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping priced at 16s. No inscriptions. A clean, fine copy of the book in a bright, slightly edge-worn wrapper with some gentle toning to spine panel. Housed in a bespoke black cloth clamshell to a uniform design by Gilbert. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Fanshawe Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, KCMG (1927-2001), former Guards Officer and SAS Commando, later MP for Richmond, a Foreign Office minister and Conservative Party Vice Chairman under Margaret Thatcher. Gilbert A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian.. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$769.66 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, featuring the reappearance of James Bond's nemesis, Blofeld, and his criminal organization SPECTRE. It was adapted into a film in 1969, starring George Lazenby. Gilbert A11a (1.1). Octavo. Original dark grey boards (Gilbert's binding A), spine lettered in silver, white ski track design on front cover. With dust jacket. Jacket spine toned, occasional nick and foxing, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A first edition of the tenth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, featuring notorious villain Blofeld. This work follows Bond as he continues to search for Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the quest taking him to Switzerland. It was an immediate best-seller.Ian Fleming (1908-1964) was a British journalist, intelligence officer and writer. His 'James Bond' series is one of the most influential pieces of spy fiction, having sold over one hundred million copies worldwide. It has spanned an extremely popular film series, featuring seven actors starring as the titular character.A first edition of this work.Complete with the dustwrapper designed by Richard Chopping.A smart copy of the second Bond novel to feature criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In the publisher's original full cloth binding, with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a touch of general wear. Dust wrapper is a little sunned to the spine, which is slightly chipped at the head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
FLEMING, IAN. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service. London Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Signed by actor George Lazenby who played James Bond in the motion picture adaptation of the novel with a sexy provocative quotation from his dialogue where he is attempting to get Diana Rigg into bed. Inscribed on the title page: ÒContessa, Please stay alive. At least for tonight! George Lazenby, 007.Ó Accompanied by a original color photograph of Lazenby signing the book. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some soiling and stains with a few very tine chips and tiny tears. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service is among the best regarded James Bond films.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 288 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's stamp on the fpdep. Page edges are lightly smudged. Bound in brown hardcovers with silver titles on the spine and a white design on the upper cover. Illustrated beige dustjacket in very good condition with black and red titles. Lightly worn and smudged around the edges. A crease on the head edge. 1ST UK EDITION. VG/VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$865.86 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with No inscriptions, some dustiness/spotting, faint ring-mark to rear of jacket otherwise clean; remains quite fresh. An attractive copy, housed in a bespoke gilt-stamped clamshell box. The title was filmed by Eon Productions in 1969, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$891.52 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first impression of the tenth 007 novel, another thrilling espionage novel following the exploits of James Bond. The first edition, first impression of this work.Gilbert's binding A, with dark brown cloth and silver lettering.In the original unclipped dust wrapper by Richard Chopping'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' is the tenth Fleming James Bond novel, the second in what is known as the 'Blofeld' trilogy, following Bond on his search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld.This novel was later adapted into a film in 1969, the sixth in the James Bond series, featuring George Lazenby as his first and only appearance as Bond. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Light spots to the fore edge and endpapers. Very light edge wear to the dust wrapper, with a few spots. Spine is a little sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping priced at 16s. Small, neat owner name, slightly dusty, jacket is rather fresh with a little rubbing to centre of front panel. A pleasing copy. Published in 1963, this is the second part of a collection of James Bond books that has become known as the 'Blofeld' trilogy, sitting between Thunderball (1961) and You Only Live Twice (1964). The title was filmed by Eon Productions in 1969, starring George Lazenby as 007, Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape 1963, London, 1963.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, first issue. 288 pp. Grey hardcover with stamped detailing to front and silver lettering to spine in the classic pictorial jacket, unclipped. Boards are clean with little wear. Very slight sunning to spine panel and minimal faint marking to jacket, with minor wear to extremities; otherwise the book is in fine condition, clean and bright inside and out, almost as new. A great first edition of a classic Bond novel. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 8vo., brown publisher's cloth, backstrip printed in gilt, with white 'Ski' motif to upper panel; in the original unclipped Richard Chopping dust jacket (16s. net), featuring a black and white illustration of the author to the lower flap; pp. [viii], 9-288; a fresh, bright copy, with minor bumping and scratches to the edge of the text block the only defects; jacket clean and unrestored, with the red lettering to spine, often faded, here bright and clear; some very marginal toning and creasing to extremities, but otherwise an excellent copy. First edition, first impression. Binding A in brown cloth. After the mixed reviews arising from his previous book, The Spy Who Loved Me, Fleming endeavored to return to his tried and tested formula with OHMSS. The villain Blofeld reappears, as well as the SPECTRE organisation, and Fleming sets much of the action in Alpine Ski resorts, having recently traveled to Engadine, near St Moritz. Blofeld's mountain-top laboratory and retreat was based upon the Schloss Mittersill Alpine sports club, which had been commandeered by the Nazis during the war as a pseudo-scientific research centre. Fleming had learned to ski in the 1920s, and, heavily influenced by his surroundings, based Bond's dramatic alpine descent on an experience he once had while navigating an avalanche-prone piste. Originally entitled The Belles of Hell, Fleming's tenth novel proved popular. Graham Greene, who was heavily involved in its publication, insisted on a large print run, but the book still sold out within days of publication.
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 288pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. No toning or foxing. Small, neat ownership signature on front end-paper. Equally attractive unclipped Richard Chopping dust-jacket, (16s. net), has a hint of soiling on rear panel but quite trivial. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, or tears. Made into the much over-looked 19697 film starring George Lazenby and Diana Rigg. A simply gorgeous collectable copy.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$1000.03 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy of the eleventh Bond adventure. This a first impression, Binding B, with silver to both the spine and the front cover. The book is clean, square, and tight. There is a previous owner's name in pen to the ffep. The jacket has been price clipped but is otherwise fine. The back cover notes that Dr. No has now been filmed and that From Russia, With Love is soon to follow. Gilbert: First impression, binding B, A11a (1.2).
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Fleming,Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$1019.80 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a Near Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's original black cloth boards with vibrant silver title lettering to spine and with bright sloping ski run style design to the front cover.The Dust-Jacket is graded Fine with NO chips or tears to the outer edges.The red title lettering along the spine remains bright and unfaded and with no age toning to spine of the wrapper,lovely clean inner flaps to the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped with publisher's price of 16s net to front flap.Dust-Wrapper design by Richard Chopping.This copy has no former ownership names or inscriptions present.Contents are clean throughout with clean,crisp white page edges and there are no turned corners to the pages,no thumb marks.There is just a little spotting to top edge of the text block.An unusually bright and clean copy and certainly uncommon in this collectable condition.8vo 288pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1963]
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
FLEMING Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. , 1963.
Price: US$1026.21 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark grey cloth, with white ski motif to front board, spine lettered in silver, price clipped dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. London, Jonathan Cape. The eleventh of the Bond novels, and the second to feature the memorable villain 'Blofeld'. A very good copy, dust jacket extremities a little rubbed, and top edge spotted, price clipped, slight lean to text block, edges spotted. Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography, A11a. (1.1).
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$1058.28 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression (Jonathan Cape, 1963). Publisher's original black cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A little spotting to top edge, but a lovely and clean near fine book otherwise, in a near fine and unclipped dust jacket with just a hint of rubbing in places to extremities and a little toning to spine panel. An excellent example.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian.. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. Jonathan Cape, London., 1963.
Price: US$1090.35 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 288 pages.Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper, designed by Richard Chopping, with a small patch of abrasion to front panel.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, IAN. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service. London Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Signed by actor George Lazenby who played James Bond in the motion picture adaptation of the novel with a sexy provocative quotation from his dialogue where he is attempting to get Diana Rigg into bed. Inscribed on the title page: ÒContessa, Please stay alive. At least for tonight! George Lazenby, 007.Ó Accompanied by a original color photograph of Lazenby signing the book. Book has small stain on the front board, slightly bumped at the top of rear board, light general use, else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny nicks, some creases and light wear. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service is among the best regarded James Bond films.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$1130.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition. Very good in a very good jacket. Sound and square binding. Minor foxing to fore-edge. DJ is price clipped to 4 corners, 1.5 inch sticker residue to uncoated jacket. Book comes protected in mylar cover.
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1148.07 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping. A near fine copy of the book in a slightly nicked, price-clipped dust-wrapper. Housed in a bespoke gilt-stamped clamshell box. Gilbert, Jon: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. , 1963.
Price: US$1218.62 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark grey cloth, with white ski motif to front board, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. London, Jonathan Cape. The eleventh of the Bond novels, and the second to feature the memorable villain 'Blofeld'. A very good copy, dust jacket front panel a little soiled, and spine a little faded as is usual, extremities rubbed, with a few small chips, booksellers sticker to front paste-down. Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography, A11a. (1.1).
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
FLEMING Ian. On her Majesty's Secret Service. , 1963.
Price: US$1218.62 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark grey cloth, with white ski motif to front board, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. London, Jonathan Cape. The eleventh of the Bond novels, and the second to feature the memorable villain 'Blofeld'. A very good copy, dust jacket back panel a little soiled, and spine faded and rubbed as is usual. Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming the Bibliography, A11a. (1.1).
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, Ltd., London, England UK, 1963.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in good condition and very clean with no writing or markings anywhere, except front cover. Front cover has a pen marking of 44 /51. Well bound with no loose or missing pages and spine has some wrinkled aging over time. An uncorrected Proof, very readable and collectible.
Seller: Calm Water Books, Shediac, NB, Canada
Price: US$1539.31 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's copy, with his printed notepaper and provenance label loosely inserted. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark brown cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping priced at 16s., housed in an elegant leather-spined clamshell box. Contents clean, top edge a little spotted/toned else near fine, in a crisp, fresh wrapper with small areas of browning to head and tail of spine. 'House of Commons' headed paper with typed note 'With Brigadier Maclean's Compliments' is in fine condition (Maclean served as a minister in the War Office around this time). A significant association. Provenance: Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911-96), former Etonian diplomat, S.A.S. Commando, adventurer and travel writer encouraged by Peter Fleming; liaised with Ian Fleming during the Moscow spy trials in the 1930s, served in Soviet Central Asia, the Western Desert Campaign, and at Churchill's personal request, behind enemy lines with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. Maclean was often labelled a model for James Bond, with Ian Fleming noting that 007 was "a compound of all the secret agents and commando types that I met during the war" (Bond Bound, p.26). Maclean, Peter and Ian Fleming were reunited at literary events, each being published by Jonathan Cape. Originally sold with all Maclean's copies of the Bond novels [Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 2008], purchased by bibliographer Jon Gilbert for his Fleming Archive, where this copy has remained since. Gilbert A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$1917.73 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A near fine book, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions, in a near fine or better dust wrapper with light restoration to a very small area of the spine tips. The restoration is very subtle, and of the highest quality. Correctly priced at 16s.net. A most attractive copy.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Fleming, Ian. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Jonathan Cape [1963], London, 1963.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original black boards, front stamped in white, spine stamped in silver. A James Bond novel. The second appearance of the head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Made into a feature film. Gilbert: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A11a (1.1). Hubin, p. 288. Smith and White: Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 1887. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (with printed price of 16s). (30687)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Published 1963" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, uncorrected proof copy. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, uncorrected proof copy, original wrappers, spine creased, light rubbing to extremities but a sharp and excellent copy otherwise, 8vo, 1963. ? A scarce proof with several substantive differences to the final text.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
FLEMING, Ian.. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$2244.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, featuring the reappearance of James Bond's nemesis Blofeld and his criminal organization SPECTRE. It was adapted into a film in 1969, starring George Lazenby. Gilbert A11a (1.1). Octavo. Original dark brown boards (Gilbert's binding A), spine lettered in silver, white ski track design on front cover. With dust jacket. Foxing to edges, marks to lower margins of pp. 73 & 230, text clean; jacket bright, occasional nicks and foxing, unclipped: a very good copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
IAN FLEMING. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE UNCORRECTED PROOF. JONATHAN CAPE, 1963.
Price: US$2395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An outstanding copy of this rare proof, in extremely scarce collectible condition. First Edition, First Printing Near fine condition book in green printed soft wraps. The uncorrected proofs, which came out BEFORE the first printing/published copies, were printed up in very small quantities of about 500 pieces. DEFINITION OF AN UNCORRECTED PROOF: In publishing jargon, a proof is the preliminary iteration of a book, intended for a limited audience. Its purpose is to allow for final edits. The proofs can also help to build and maintain buzz about a book before its official release date, generate some early reviews and have potential readers eager to get their hands on the title. A galley proof or uncorrected proof may still have errors or areas open to change. It is generally bound differently than the final product, often only spiral-bound, and missing much of the polish of the eventual published version, opting instead for plain, often coarse paper. Inclusion of proposed publication information (date, price, etc.) can also be included. Usually the proof consists of text only, and is devoid of any art or illustration that may be present in the final published version. If a book is successful and does well upon final publication, or if it goes out-of-print early but develops a fan-base or cult following, an uncorrected proof can become a valuable prize for collectors. Part of the appeal is their scarcity, and the fact that they will sometimes have slightly different text from the final piece. (Beth Carswell, ABE BOOKS) Near fine condition in printed green soft wraps. The few uncorrected proofs that were released to select individuals were poured over, read, pass around, and re-read as they were extremely scarce (imagine being only 1 of 500 of the privileged few who got to preview this book!). This copy is in unusually clean condition, with No handling marks, No tip curls, No dog eared pages, No stains, No writing and No foxing. The outer wraps on this copy is in near fine condition which more typically are also found highly worn, and/or grubby from being passed around. Only a few of the uncorrected proofs have come to market in recent years, with this copy being in extraordinary condition without any restoration. The wraps are still overall bright and fresh with only creasing to the spine, and one very soft flattened crease to the rear panel. Tiny 1/8″ spot of surface paper loss to the lower spine. the binding is firm and the end papers are clean with no owner names, no bookplates and no inscriptions. Please see the many images. A most unique gift and a scarce addition to a James Bond collection. An outstanding copy of this rare proof, in extremely scarce collectible condition. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other Ian Fleming/James Bond listings
Seller: Meier And Sons Rare Books, New Canaan, CT, U.S.A.
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Published in 1963 in London by Jonathan Cape. First edition, first impression. Book in Fine condition, black cloth and bright silver gilded title on spine plus white gild on front board, clean pages. Dustjacket in Fine condition with original 16s net on front flap of dustwrapper, and absolutely no sun darkening to the spine. $3,000
Seller: E. B. Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$3142.77 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A fine book, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions, in a fine dust wrapper. Correctly priced at 16s.net. An outstanding copy.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$3527.59 + shipping
Description: [Spy novels] 14 volumes. Later printings, in a similar format to the first printings. Octavos (20 x 14 x 36cm). Publisher's hardbacks in original illustrated dust-jackets. All Cape printings (the original publisher of the James Bond novels), the final three titles being first impressions. A uniform set which shows well. No owner inscriptions or ink names, some light edge spotting to a few volumes, jackets generally bright and fresh with minor wear only, three titles are price clipped (OHMSS, YOLT, OCT), three are re-priced by Cape (DAF, FYEO, SPY), 'Live and Let Die' jacket is laminated, some wear/rubs to inside gutter, 'Spy' has a Bond film-related news-clipping to endpaper, overall gently aged and generally quite fresh. An attractive vintage set; with early hardcovers much in demand, and many being destined for the library system, this series is becoming rather difficult to assemble in decent order.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$8658.64 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original green wrappers with the publisher's device repeated in white, spine and front wrapper lettered in black. With proof dust jacket. Housed in a custom chemise and blue morocco-backed slipcase. Minor staining to spine with minor tear to head; a near-fine copy. Dust jacket trimmed to size of proof with minor loss to head of spine; a very good example of the jacket. Uncorrected proof copy in proof jacket. One of just 500 proof copies. The proof of On Her Majesty's Secret Service has more errors and required more amendments than any other Fleming title. The dust jacket shows variations to the blurb over the published version, including a Soviet newspaper blurb to the rear panel, which is exclusive to the proof. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert A11a, pages 354-6; The Schøyen Collection No. 82.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$11224.16 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY IAN FLEMING and additionally INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE 'Sable Basilisk' (Robin de la Lanne Mirrlees). Second Impression. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. Housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. Very good indeed, with a little edge-spotting, neat reference number '1M' to flyleaf, jacket close to fine. 'Sable Basilisk' was the fictional name Fleming gave to the genealogy expert Rouge Dragon (the position held by Mirrlees at the College of Arms, London). Mirrlees had an extensive research correspondence with Fleming, and it was he who first revealed to the author Bond's family motto "The World Is Not Enough" (Giblin, p.39). Mirrlees later published an account of his dealings with Fleming as 'Sable Basilisk', a privately printed volume of great rarity among Bond collectors. Bibliographical Note; this is the third such copy we have handled bearing the signatures of both Fleming and Mirrlees, and all have been second impressions- clearly a private or informal signing took place where second printings were provided. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, A11a (2). Provenance: previously sold by Asprey [gilt-stamped solander box], later Adrian Harrington [Inventory no.39658, February 2012 £6750].
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. 8vo, limited first edition, #98 of 250 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Frontispiece portrait by Amherst Villiers, title page in red and black, black cloth board with vellum spine, bright gilt lettering on the spine, white ski-track illustration on the upper board, top edges gilt. Clear plastic dust jacket, as issued. Very slight soing to the spine ends, light foxing to the edges and endpapers. Near fine condition.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
FLEMING, Ian.. Thrilling Cities.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$16034.52 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page "For Sari, her Christmas present! [kiss] Ian." This copy was given from the author's own batch of copies for presentation in December 1963 (the book having been published in November 1963). The recipient is Sarah Dugdale, part of the Ivor Bryce set, who was a close friend of Ian Fleming during the last 12 years of his life. Accompanying the book is a note regarding the nature of their relationship, from the previous owner, Sari's housemaid and confidante, who had inherited the book in July 2003. The note states that Fleming and Dugdale "met in 1952 when Sarah Dugdale went to the dock in New York, with a mutual friend, to meet Ian Fleming off the Queen Mary". This is a most personal copy, with an intimate and close association. Originally published as two series of articles for the Sunday Times, first from 24 January to 28 February 1960 and then from 31 July to 4 September 1960, Thrilling Cities was the product of a five-week, all-expenses-paid trip to visit the world's most exciting cities. Travelling to thirteen cities, from Hong Kong to Monte Carlo, Fleming gathered material that would furnish much of the backdrop and research for the five Bond novels and seven short stories that would follow. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert A16a(1.1). The Schøyen Collection No. 191. Octavo. Original white cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. 48 pages of illustrations from black and white photos. Corners slightly bumped, some browning to edges, a near-fine copy. Minor creases to price-clipped dust jacket with extremities slightly rubbed, a bright and near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. Thrilling Cities. Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$16034.52 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original white cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. 48 pages of illustrations from black and white photos. Corners slightly bumped, some browning to edges, a near-fine copy. Minor creases to price-clipped dust jacket with extremities slightly rubbed, a bright and near-fine copy. First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title-page "For Sari, her Christmas present! [kiss] Ian." This copy was given from the author's own batch of copies for presentation in December 1963 (the book having been published in November 1963). The recipient is Sarah Dugdale, part of the Ivor Bryce set, who was a close friend of Ian Fleming during the last 12 years of his life. Accompanying the book is a note regarding the nature of their relationship, from the previous owner, Sari's housemaid and confidante, who had inherited the book in July 2003. The note states that Fleming and Dugdale "met in 1952 when Sarah Dugdale went to the dock in New York, with a mutual friend, to meet Ian Fleming off the Queen Mary". This is a most personal copy, with an intimate and close association. Originally published as two series of articles for the Sunday Times, first from 24 January to 28 February 1960 and then from 31 July to 4 September 1960, Thrilling Cities was the product of a five-week, all-expenses-paid trip to visit the world's most exciting cities. Travelling to thirteen cities, from Hong Kong to Monte Carlo, Fleming gathered material that would furnish much of the backdrop and research for the five Bond novels and seven short stories that would follow. This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert A16a(1.1). The Schøyen Collection No. 191.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian.. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$17637.97 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 203 of 250 copies signed by the author; a further 35 unnumbered copies signed and marked for "presentation" were also released. This was Fleming's only signed limited edition; it was published simultaneously with the trade issue on 1 April 1963. Gilbert A11a. Octavo. Original quarter vellum, black board sides, spine lettered in gilt, ski track decoration to front cover in white, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom black quarter morocco folding box. Colour portrait frontispiece of the author with tissue guard. Spine slightly darkened, else a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian.. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.. Jonathan Cape, London., 1963.
Price: US$18920.73 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 288 pages. Quarter vellum, black cloth sides with ski-track design in white, spine lettering gilt, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece portrait from a painting by Amherst Villiers.Number 56 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. This is the only limited edition of any of the Bond novels.Fine in the original clear-plastic dustwrapper which is completely intact.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian.. Casino Royale.. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$19241.42 + shipping
Description: Second edition, fifth impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To CD from Ian". Sir Charles Denis Hamilton was a decorated veteran of the Second World War, "an outstanding natural newspaperman", a close friend of Fleming, and a fellow board member at the Kemsley News Group. As a columnist, much of Ian Fleming's journalism was published in the Sunday Times when Hamilton was editor-in-chief. In 1962 the inaugural issue of the ST Magazine featured the James Bond novella The Living Daylights. Hamilton also championed Fleming's Thrilling Cities travel articles, later being the dedicatee of the book edition. The first James Bond novel, Casino Royale was originally published in 1953. After two reprints, the work was entirely reset in 1957 and featured a dust jacket design by Patricia Marriott (1920-2002). Marriott also designed the dust jackets for two further Cape-published James Bond novels, Diamonds are Forever (1956) and Dr No (1958). Her husband, Michael Howard (1923-1974), was Fleming's literary advisor and a director at Cape. The 1963 impression was the fifth impression of the second edition and is also noted by Gilbert as the "eighth printing". This was, crucially, the final Cape printing of the author's debut novel to be published during his lifetime. This copy is from the library of the Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with his bookplate and signed catalogue description loosely inserted. Gilbert A1a(8). Harold Hobson, Phillip Knightley and Leonard Russell, The Pearl of Days: An Intimate Memoir of the Sunday Times, 1972. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in red, red heart device on front cover. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. Minor foxing to edges, extremities of jacket a little rubbed, unclipped; a fine copy in a near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$22448.33 + shipping
Description: Together 26 issues. From Russia, With Love, 12 issues; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 9 issues (of 10); Murder Before Breakfast [From a View to a Kill], 5 issues. Each issue illustrated by Andrew Robb. Wanting first issue of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, supplied with a photocopy. A few issues stamped "First edition fudge" on first pages. Some wear to spines and extremities, strengthened in many places with tape, central folding crease and occasional spotting as expected. Overall a very attractive set. The first appearance in print of two Bond stories, together with the first serialisation of another in the Daily Express. The collection comprises the first appearances in print of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (first issue not included) and From a View to a Kill, the latter published here under the alternative title Murder Before Breakfast, together with the first complete serial publication of From Russia, With Love, the opening paragraphs of which were previously published as Visitor in the magazine Now and Then in late February/early March (Gilbert, p. 162). From Russia, With Love: Episodes had been considered by the London Evening Standard before the rights were sold to the Daily Express, who had serialized the previous Ian Fleming novel Diamonds are Forever, and who would similarly issue the present title just before release of the British hardback, upon which Fleming commented "Let us hope they don't murder the book too much before your [Cape's] publication date" (Jonathan Cape Archive, Special Collections, Reading University). On Her Majesty's Secret Service: There are no surviving copies of any instalment in the Jonathan Cape archive at Reading University, although a letter to Ian Fleming from director Michael Howard, dated 14 February 1963, confirms the printing; "Peter Janson-Smith [Ian Fleming's literary agent] is also having a couple [of advance copies] so that the Express can get to work with the editing of the serial. They are so keen to have an absolute scoop on the Bond wedding that although we have moved our publication date forward, they are likely to serialize earlier still so as to complete it by the time we publish." Murder Before Breakfast [From a View to a Kill]: The Daily Express published Ian Fleming's short story as a five-part adventure under the title Murder Before Breakfast. Although not the original name, it was at least in keeping with Fleming's inspiration for the title From a View to a Kill, which was adapted from the third stanza of John Woodcock Graves's 1820 Cumberland hunting song, D'Ye Ken John Peel, which read in part: "From the drag to the chase. From the chase to the view. From the view to a death in the morning." The literary agent Peter Janson-Smith was very active in promoting the short stories prior to publication in book form, and Fleming acknowledged and indeed defended this in writing to his publisher, who may have felt their bound edition was to be somewhat compromised or undermined. This was the first James Bond short story to appear in the United Kingdom and was not published in a book-form edition until April 1960. Copies are recorded in the Bibliographical Archive and in the Cape files at Reading University. The Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert notes that the present set of On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the first he had ever seen, and that the only other Daily Express copies of From Russia, With Love and Murder Before Breakfast he has viewed were the publisher's file copies. These sets are from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), whose private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert A5a, A8a, A11a; The Schøyen Collection, Nos. 38, 81, 110.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$22448.33 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, Binding 'A'. INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's brown cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in the dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 16s. With author's signed presentation inscription to the flyleaf; "To Aubrey / who wrote some of it! / From Ian". Some minor foxing, jacket gently used; very good or better copy. Housed in an elegant quarter black morocco clamshell. Aubrey Forshaw was asked by Fleming to read the proof of On Her Majesty's Secret Service and correct any errors, specifically those relating to cars. The inscription relates to the passages corrected by Forshaw, particularly regarding motoring matters. An outstanding presentation of the tenth James Bond novel. Provenance: Aubrey Forshaw, Managing Director of Pan Books, publisher of the James Bond novels in paperback. Gilbert A11a (1.1).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. London: Jonathan Cape., 1963.
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Description: First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original black cloth with white ski track design to upper board, titles in gilt to the spine, in the Richard Chopping illustrated dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents with a few spots of foxing to the top edge of the text block are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked original dustwrapper which is a little toned to the spine and rear panel. Not price-clipped (16s net to the front flap). Housed in a bespoke quarter black morocco solander case. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper "To Aubrey / who wrote some of it! / From Ian". Provenance: Aubrey Forshaw, Managing Director of Pan Books, publisher of the James Bond novels in paperback and Ian Fleming's expert for technical information concerning James Bond's cars. It was in this respect that he was asked by Fleming to read the proof of On Her Majesty's Secret Service and correct any errors. Forshaw duly obliged, making corrections in several places and returning the proof to the publisher. All of his emendations were adopted to the first edition text, hence the wonderful presentation inscription to his friend and collaborator. An outstanding association copy of the tenth James Bond novel. (Gilbert A11a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
FLEMING, IAN. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service. London Jonathan Cape 1963, 1963.
Price: US$24000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Limited Issue. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author Ian Fleming at the colophon. This copy is #223. With a full color frontispiece painted portrait of Fleming by Amherst Villiers. Faint trace of foxing the endpapers, else a fine copy without dust jacket. On Her MajestyÕs Secret Service is FlemingÕs 11th James Bond novel and is the basis of the 1969 film starring George Lazenby as Bond with Diana Rigg and Telly Savales.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing, A spectacular copy SIGNED by Ian Fleming on the limitation on page. This is copy number 205 of 250 copies bound in the publisher's quarter vellum over black boards. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy Fleming First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$35275.94 + shipping
Description: [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's dark grey cloth-effect paper over boards with silver titles to spine, in original jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced at 16s. Inscribed by the author to his close friend John Hayward; "To John | to pick holes in! | from | Ian". A lovely near fine copy in a morocco-spined clamshell box. A charming and close association; Hayward (1905-65) was a fellow bibliophile and writer who lived in the same Chelsea apartment block as Ian Fleming. The written comment refers to Hayward's assiduous editorial skills; Hayward sat on the board of Fleming's Book Collector journal and, for many years, was its editor-in-chief. This copy has resided in two prominent collections, firstly that of Roger Rechler (sold at Christies, 2002, $11,950) and later the property of Football Hall of Famer Pat McInally.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1963.
Price: US$41689.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Original grey-brown boards (binding A, no priority), spine lettered in silver, white ski track design on front cover. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom cream cloth chemise and slipcase by James MacDonald of New York. A little rubbing, slight lean to spine, publisher's date stamp on rear free endpaper verso. A very good copy indeed in like dust jacket, not price-clipped, spine lettering unusually bright, couple of nicks and spots of rubbing, foxing to rear panel, a sharp example. First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his typist on the front free endpaper: "To Margaret Anderson who wrote it! from Ian Fleming"; together with 11 typed copy sheets from Anderson, mostly letters to Fleming's secretary Beryl Griffie-Williams, with secretarial annotations. Margaret Anderson has signed her name above Fleming's inscription, adding "finished 5/5/1962", most likely referring to the date she finished typing the present work; she has also made occasional pencil annotations to the text itself. Fleming employed Anderson during the early 1960s to produce typescript copies from his manuscripts, a task which, as these letters show, she completed with much enjoyment and no small amount of difficulty; "I am sorry about not doing a chapter title number page. I'm sorry but do appreciate how much extra work I have given you and regret it very much". Nevertheless, she frequently passes thanks to Fleming for his generosity in maintaining her services and providing her with bonuses, and her questions (both in the body of some letters and in three sheets of queries, two of which concern On Her Majesty's Secret Service) show an astute eye for inaccuracies and inconsistencies. For example, Anderson questions M's profuse swearing in Chapter 17 of the present work, given that he had previously been described to seldom swear, "except when he thought he was sending one of his men to their death" (Anderson). "On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the second and final novel typed for Ian Fleming by Margaret Anderson, after which Fleming's regular typist Jean Frampton returned" (Gilbert, p. 352). In her initial letter, dated 23 December 1960, Anderson comments on the first work she typed for Fleming: not a Bond novel but rather State of Excitement: Impressions of Kuwait, which Fleming wrote as a guest of the Kuwait Oil Company the same month. Although that work seemed destined for Fleming's travelogue Thrilling Cities (1963), the government of Kuwait soon prevented its publication after objecting to "certain mild comments and criticisms" (Fleming, quoted in Gilbert, p. 589). It remains unpublished. As Anderson informs Fleming's secretary, "we've always enjoyed his books and although [Impressions of Kuwait] is different from his novels his racy style still keeps coming through". This copy is from the significant Ian Fleming collection of Martin Schøyen (b.1940), with his bookplate. Schøyen's private collection of manuscripts, which span all cultures and all time periods, is one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind. Gilbert A11a (1.1); The Schøyen Collection No. 85. Ian Fleming, State of Excitement: Impressions of Kuwait, manuscript held at the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom