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Ian Fleming | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, special edition, signed by the author

Lot Closed

July 19, 01:28 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ian Fleming


On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963


FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, (this copy number 105), frontispiece portrait by Amherst Villiers, title-page in red and black, original parchment-backed black cloth lettered in gilt, white ski-track motif on upper cover, top edge gilt, traces of erased inscriptions on front free endpaper, a fine copy


THE ONLY "DELUXE" ISSUE OF ANY OF THE JAMES BOND NOVELS.


LITERATURE:

Gilbert A11a (1.2, signed limited issue)