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London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [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).

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.