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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. 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. Gilbert A11a.

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.