FLEMING, Ian.

£7,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

On Her Majesty's Secret Service. First edition, inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper in black ink, "To David, we have all the time in the world. George Lazenby". John Barry and Hal David's song for the film is one of the most emotionally charged of the entire series. It quotes the conclusion of Fleming's text and was reused in the closing credits to No Time to Die.The novel features the first meeting between James Bond and his nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the leader of the criminal organization SPECTRE. The villain had been introduced in Thunderball (1961), pulling the strings in the background but not yet meeting the secret agent himself.George Lazenby played the role of Bond in the sixth film in the Eon series. Originally offered a contract for seven Bond films, he made only one (which never happened to the other fellow).

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