Forbidden Journey. From Peking to Kashmir. by Maillart, Ella K - 1937

London: Heinemann, 1937. reprint. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth 312pp., b/w pls., notes, fldg. map, index, Translated from the French. Some institutional stamps o/w nice copy

London.: Heinemann.. Reprint.. Reprint.1949.. Maps, one folding, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 312pp, notes and index, Original burgundy cloth covered boards, spine faded and marked still a good copy copy. An account of her 3500 mile trip from Manchuria to Sinkiang (then known as Chinese Turkestan) with Peter Fleming in 1932. .

London.: William Heinemann Ltd.. Reprint of the first 1937 edition.. 1940.. Maps, one folding, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 312pp, notes and index, browned endpapers, some light foxing upper edge and preliminary leaves, cloth slightly faded, lettering dulled on the spine, but good copy. Two prior owner inscriptions on front free endpaper. 22 x 14cm This journey undertaken by Ella Maillart and travel writer Peter Fleming resulted in two books - Forbidden Journey by Maillart and News from Tartary by Fleming. Each tells the story of their journey but their accounts could not be more different. .

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937. Hardcover. VG- (light shelfwear to boards and block. pages are lightly age toned but otherwise clear.). Tan cloth boards with brown spine lettering; xiv, 306 pp, bw illustrated frontispiece; map illustrated end papers; bw illustrations throughout. "Translated from the French by Thomas McGreevy." Includes a list of the maps and illustrations. Divided into two parts.

London: William Heineman Ltd, 1937. xvi, 312pp. Folding Map and illustrations throughout. Original brown cloth,gilt. Fisrt issue was August 1937.. 1st edition, 4th Reprint. Hardback. V.g./No d.j.. large 8vo.

London: William Heinemann, 1937 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (a little rubbed & bumped, slight sunning and toning, occ. spots, frontispiece affixed with the aid of craft tape) in facsimile of original dustwrapper (a little rubbed)); pp. vi, 312, with 64 illustrations & 3 maps. A very good copy. Ex-libris musicologist Christopher Dyment, with his ownership label to foot of upper pastedown.. Fourth Impression. Hard Cover. VG/Facsimile.

London: William Heinemann, 1937 VG+/VG-. 8vo. original burgundy cloth gilt (prev. owner's details to front endpapers, leaf edges a little spotted & marked, a few marks to boards) in dustwrapper (rubbed & frayed, some chipping at spine ends); pp. vi, 312, with 64 illustrations & 3 maps. A very good copy.. Fourth Impression. Hard Cover. VG+/VG-.

London: Heinemann, 1937. reprint. Nice copy. octavo. torn dust jacket xvi + 312pp., frontis., maps, b/w plates, notes, index, Ownership signature o/w nice copy

London: William Heinemann, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Maillart was a Swiss adventurer travel writer and photographer, as well as accomplished international athlete. (She was captain of the Swiss Women's land hockey team, an international skier, and competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics as a sailor in the Olympic monotype competition). From the 1930s onwards, she explored oriental republics of the USSR. This book is the account of her 3500 mile trip from Manchuria to Sinkiang (then known as Chinese Turkestan), a journey that involved travel on trains, trucks, on foot, horse and camel back. 8vo, vi, 312pp, 64pp illustrations, one folding map & 2 maps in text. Original burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine, which is sunned. Light foxing near the covers. OCLC: 43681644.

London: William Heinemann. Very Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine a bit slanted. Boards with light rubbing to extremities and with a light bump to one corner. Spine with a hint of sunning. Toning to endpapers. Front hinge has a bit of play. Occasional light foxing to pages and edges. ; Profusely illustrated and with one fold out map in front. Chapters include Peking, Inner China, Sian (sic) , Borodishin, Across the Takla Makan Desert, Sinkiang, Kashgaria, India. Ella Maillard was a Swiss travel writer, who undertook this journey with Peter Fleming, British Travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming, creater of James Bond. The trip went across China to India. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .