On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Fourth Impression. Pp, 288. Black cloth covers, with silver anagram to spine and spiral design to front board, original pictorial dust jacket by Richard Chopping. A nice bright copy.

The eleventh novel in the James Bonds series and the first since the debut of the Bond film, ‘Dr. No.’ It became an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.