8vo. Original dark brown cloth [Gilbert binding A, no priorty], upper cover with a large, white ski-track motif, spine lettered in silver (spotting to endpapers, rubbing); original dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping (some light restoration to extremities); quarter green morocco folding case gilt.

FIRST TRADE EDITION. SIGNED BY FLEMING. The eleventh James Bond novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service was also the first Bond novel to be published after the debut of the Bond film series, which made it "an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic" (Biondi & Pickard, 48, 53). Six years later George Lazenby would portray Bond in the film adaptation of the same name, marking his only appearance in the 007 film series. Signed trade editions of this work are scarce, as Fleming would die within a year and a half of its publication. Gilbert A11a(1.1).