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The Daily Express, 1957-1963. Together 26 issues. From Russia, With Love, 12 issues; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 9 issues (of 10); Murder Before Breakfast [From a View to a Kill], 5 issues. Each issue illustrated by Andrew Robb. Wanting first issue of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, supplied with a photocopy. A few issues stamped "First edition fudge" on first pages. Some wear to spines and extremities, strengthened in many places with tape, central folding crease and occasional spotting as expected. Overall a very attractive set. The first appearance in print of two Bond stories, together with the first serialisation of another in the Daily Express. The collection comprises the first appearances in print of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (first issue not included) and From a View to a Kill, the latter published here under the alternative title Murder Before Breakfast, together with the first complete serial publication of From Russia, With Love, the opening paragraphs of…

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.