A Forgotten Journey by FLEMING, Peter - 1952

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. No Edition Remarks. 190 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Light foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light creasing and staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Book is subtly bowed and forward leaning with minor tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends.

Rupert Hart Davis, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. No Edition Noted. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and tanning. Mild bumping to corners and soft crushing to spine ends. Heavier tanning to spine.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Good. Hardcover. 1952. 190 pages. Dj chipped and worn. Name on ffep<br> .

Rupert Hart-Davis. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge chips. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1952.

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. the jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and torn. tanning and foxing. well bound. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hart-Davis, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The jacket is a bit marked and torn. Internally clean and tightly bound. One price notation and mild tanning.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952 Book. Illus. by B & W Photos, Map. Good Plus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original navy cloth over boards with silver gilt lettering. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket features cover photo of men on donkeys in the desert, with black and red lettering. Dustjacket is missing a 1 1/2" section at bottom of spine and has some edgewear - it is now protected by a mylar jacket. Pencilled date and initials inside front cover. Heavy spotting to edges of textblock. The author (elder brother of author Ian Fleming, creator of "James Bond") travelled from Moscow to Peking in the mid-30's while researching a different book. The diary from that trip was relegated to a drawer and forgotten about until nearly 20 years later. 190 pp..

London.: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952 A tightly bound book. Pages scuffed in parts. Good reading copy. Stamp and signature on flyleaf.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952 VG+/VG-. 12mo. original blue boards (slightly rubbed & bumped, occ. marks) in dustwrapper priced 10s. 6d. net (a little rubbed & nicked, slosed tear and chip to top edge (tape repair on reverse)); pp. 190, with 29 illustrations & a map. A very good copy. The author's travel diaries from Moscow to Peking through Central Asia and Siberia, immediately prior to his meeting with Ella Maillart and their journey across Western China and the Himalaya, as recounted in 'News from Tartary' and 'Forbidden Journey' respectively.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG-.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. [Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Illustrated with maps and plates. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in illustrated dust-jacket priced 30s. Some dustiness to edges, jacket lightly worn and rubbed. Very good. A 1935 diary kept by Fleming on an arduous journey through Ukraine, the Caucusus, Samarkand, Manchuria and Mongolia. Lt.Col. Robert Peter Fleming OBE was a British adventurer and travel writer, brother of novelist Ian Fleming, and unofficial editor of his James Bond books. He has often been cited as a model for the debonair secret service agent created by his brother. The present copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012, published by Peter Fleming's daughter Kate Grimond) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. See Campbell; Ian Fleming: A Catalogue of a Collection [22]. Gilbert, p. 618.