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London: Jonathan Cape 1963. 8vo. First Edition, first issue. 288 pp. Grey hardcover with stamped detailing to front and silver lettering to spine in the classic pictorial jacket, unclipped. Boards are clean with little wear. Very slight sunning to spine panel and minimal faint marking to jacket, with minor wear to extremities; otherwise the book is in fine condition, clean and bright inside and out, almost as new. A great first edition of a classic Bond novel. . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1963.

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.

The true first edition, first printing can be identified by publishers 'Jonathan Cape' on the spine and the lack of any other printing statement on the copyright page.