"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE (no.156). Octavo (195 x 35mm), pp.288. Colour frontispiece of the author by Charles Amherst Villiers. Signed by Ian Fleming to limitation page. Publisher's quarter vellum over black cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, in original clear plastic wrapper. Vellum is bright. A clean, fine copy with some minor nicks and edgewear to the fragile jacket. Housed in a custom-made fleece-lined leather box, bound in the style of the original binding with gilt-lettered white morroco spine over black cloth sides. The limited edition of On Her Majesty's Secret Service comprised 250 numbered copies, plus 35 unnumbered private copies marked 'Presentation'. Item #75086
Gilbert A11a.
Price: £15,000.00
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