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London: Cape, 1963. 8vo, pp. 288. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine, and with skiing design in silver to front panel. Illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge a little dusty, but a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, rear panel a little grubby, two 1cm closed tears to top edge and just a little wear at spine ends. Wrapper design by Richard Chopping. First trade edition, preceded by the limited signed edition of 250 copies. The eleventh title in the Bond series.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the tenth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 1 April 1963. The story centers on Bond's mission to find and stop the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld who is planning to destroy Britain's agricultural economy.