On Her Majesty's Secret Service [1st edition] Fleming, Ian

1st ed., (Gilbert's Binding C), copyright page states 'Gildrose Productions Ltd - First published 1963', also "An edition of 250 numbered copies has been printed on special paper with a frontispiece portrait by Amherst Villiers.", octavo, pp. (viii), 288, original dark brown cloth boards with embossed white ski track to front board and silver lettering to spine in illustrated Richard Chopping dust-jacket slightly clipped but still showing "16s net", some heavy foxing only to rear of d.j. Contents clean, very good in good d.j. A first edition of Fleming's tenth James Bond novel published in April 1963 which introduces James Bond and his nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld from SPECTRE. The second book in the "Blofeld Trilogy" which begins with Thunderball and concludes with You Only Live Twice.