IAN FLEMING - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, published by UK publisher Pan X350, copyright 1963, First Printing ("This Edition Published 1964 by Pan Books Ltd." with no references to subsequent printings below that on the copyright page), bluish purple ink on title on front cover (ONLY FOUND WITH THE FIRST 3 1964 pb printings) TRUE FIRST UK EDITION but Canadian export edition with 60c price on cover. BAR NONE THE RAREST OF THE JAMES BOND UK PAN PB 1STs - THIS BOOK WHILE APPARENTLY PRINTED IN THE U.K. WAS NOT SOLD IN THE U.K. AND AS A RESULT IS ONLY FOUND FROM COUNTRIES LIKE CANADA, AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND (IN POINT OF FACT THE EARLIEST KNOWN UK PAPERBACK EDITION THAT WAS SOLD IN THE UK WAS THE 1965 4TH PRINTING WHICH HAS GREEN INK FOR THE BOOK TITLE ON FRONT COVER).
SHOP AND COMPARE - A COPY OF THIS SAME EDITION IN SIMILAR CONDITION IS LISTED FOR SALE AT $1,766 - SEE EBAY 145501160226 AND ANOTHER COPY IS LISTED FOR SALE AT $1,243 - SEE EBAY 146016221193 AND ANOTHER COPY WITH SPINE READING CREASE IS LISTED FOR SALE AT $853 - SEE EBAY 325892951232 AND ANOTHER COPY IN SLIGHTLY WORSE CONDITION JUST RECENTLY SOLD WITH OVERSEAS SHIPPING FOR $821 - SEE EBAY 144963365417
Book has no vertical
spine creasing,
no spine lean, no wear to spine tips, no wear to left/right on spine, no cover creases, no edge wear, tight flat white pages with no creased page corners, pages starting to age yellow at page edges, no foxing to pages or endpapers or outer page edges, hint of age darkening/dust soiling to
outer page edges, no former owner's markings
or used book store stamps inside, virtually no dust soiling/age yellowing to back rear cover & no color transfer, small spot to cover is only defect, barest hint of spine sun yellowing (another common defect with this light colored book).
Overall a FINE-/N-FINE book of an Ian Fleming 1st printing UK Pan pb book. I have a number of other U.S. and U.K. Ian Fleming James Bond 1st printing hardcover appearances up for auction on ebay - just click on the 'see other items' link to the right of the picture. NOTE - MEDIA MAIL ROUTINELY TAKES 3-4 WEEKS (REGARDLESS OF WHAT EBAY MAY SAY - THEY DON'T CONTROL THE POST OFFICE). For U.S. buyers, both priority mail (3-5 days) and media mail (3-4 weeks) shipping options will be listed in the ebay invoice (or if the book is a paperback or small magazine both 1st class mail (5-7 days) and media mail shipping options will be listed in the ebay invoice) - SIMPLY CLICK ON THE BLUE 'OTHER SHIPPING OPTIONS' LINK IN THE INVOICE TO SEE BOTH SHIPPING OPTIONS/COST.
DELIVERY CONFIRMATION IS NOT TRACKING (despite what ebay and paypal want to call it - again they don't control the U.S. post office). Delivery confirmation is merely what it says it is - it confirms delivery to prevent fraudulent chargebacks of claimed unreceived items (which is why I don't charge for delivery confirmation in the shipping costs). Also, since I print shipping labels from home (as opposed to purchasing shipping at the post office), the delivery confirmation number IS NOT SCANNED BY THE POST OFFICE AT THIS END. Therefore, in most cases, the first time that the Post Office will show anything when you check the delivery confirmation number is when the package hits your local post office/sorting center (basically the day before its delivered to you). Occasionally (about 25% of the time) a package will get scanned at the Federal Way, WA transfer station, but in the vast majority of the cases the delivery confirmation won't show anything until basically the day before you get the package.
I DO COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS WON (if you would like estimates of what combined shipping costs might be for a certain group of auctions, please e-mail me before the auctions close but a very rough estimate is $.50-$1.00 per additional book for media mail, $1.00-$2.00 per additional book for priority mail, and $6.00-$7.00 per additional book for international mail).
As for returns -All items are used (not new) books and therefore are sold as-is, which is why I try to provide a fairly detailed description of the item itself (i.e. what it is and what it is not) as well its specific condition, noting any significant defects (for collectible items). Book grades are provided in the posting, however book grading standards/categories very widely from seller to seller, so please do not rely solely on the grade that I have given a book or ebay's provided "condition" box description, without considering the specific condition/defects described for that particular book. I do, on occasion, miss a significant defect in an item or simply make a cut/paste error in the description (i.e. an error in the description from using a prior posting as the "shell" for this book's description), and for collectible items, if that happens, on a case-by-case basis I do issue a full refund (including the cost of return shipping) depending upon the collectible significance of the undisclosed defect.