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FLEMING’S CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF HIS 3,500-MILE JOURNEY FROM BEIJING TO SRINAGAR, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES
259. QUEEN ANNE PRESS. FLEMING, Peter. News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir. London: Queen Anne Press, 2010.
£125
8vo (209 x 133mm). Original red cloth, upper board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt in the style of the first edition binding, colour-printed map endpapers; pp. 382, [2 (blank l.)]; half-tone portrait frontispiece, 16 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and- verso, one full-page map in the text; fine.
First edition thus, no. 31 of 150 copies. Fleming had first travelled to China in 1931 and returned in 1933 as the Special Correspondent of The Times, to cover the war between the nationalists and the communists;
‘After reaching Mukden
(Shenyang) in Manchuria and taking part in a sortie against local bandits, he travelled south, achieving an interview with Chaing Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief of the nationalist forces, entering communist-held territory, and finally returning home via Japan and the United States’ (ODNB). In autumn 1934, ‘Fleming once again set off for
the Far East with a far-ranging commission from The
Times. After a brief shooting trip with friends in the Caucasus he travelled on to Harbin in Manchuria, where by chance he met the Swiss traveller Ella (Kini) Maillart. It transpired that they both wanted to walk and ride from China to India, and though they both preferred to travel alone, they agreed to join forces. This epic journey of some 3500 miles on foot or ponies, through the remote province of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), with many dangers, hardships, and hold-ups, took them seven months, from February to September 1935. This, the most arduous of Fleming’s long journeys, he chronicled in fourteen long articles in The Times and later in his book News from Tartary (loc. cit.). This new edition — limited to 150 copies — was published by the Queen Anne Press (of which Peter Fleming’s brother Ian Fleming was once Managing Director and is now managed by his daughter Kate Grimond and his nephew Fergus Fleming) and was edited by Kate Grimond who wrote a new introduction for it (pp. [5]-[6]). The frontispiece portrait of Fleming and Maillart was not included in the first edition, and the photographs have reproduced anew from the original negatives.
Cf. Yakushi F103a (1st ed.). A NEW EDITION PREPARED FROM THE AUTHOR’S OWN
AMENDED COPY BY HIS DAUGHTER AND LIMITED TO 150 COPIES
260. QUEEN ANNE PRESS. FLEMING, Peter. Brazilian Adventure. London: Queen Anne Press, 2010.
£125
8vo (210 x 132mm). Original green cloth, upper board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt in the style of the first edition binding, map endpapers; pp. 364, [4 (blank ll., the last with limitation slip tipped onto recto)]; half- tone portrait frontispiece, 8 half-tone plates with
illustrations recto-and-verso, illustrations in the text; fine.
First edition thus, no. 31 of 150 copies. ‘In April 1932 Fleming answered an advertisement in the agony column of The Times, which led him to take part in a crack- brained and amateurish expedition to the hinterland of Brazil, ostensibly to look for Colonel P. H. Fawcett, a missing explorer. Fleming persuaded The Times to appoint him their unpaid special correspondent. This mixture of farce, excitement, discomfort, and danger achieved nothing except to
provide him with the subject matter for his first book, Brazilian Adventure, published in August 1933. In it he blew sky-high the 262 261
excessive reverence and solemnity with which travel books had hitherto been treated, mocking the dangers and himself with infectious humour. People could not believe that a story of true adventure could be so funny, and the book had immense success at home and in America’ (ODNB). This new edition — limited to 150 copies — was published by the Queen Anne Press (of which Peter Fleming’s brother Ian Fleming was once Managing Director and is now managed by his daughter Kate Grimond and his nephew Fergus Fleming) and was edited by Kate Grimond who wrote a new introduction for it (pp. [5]-[6]); the text ‘is taken from a first edition that belonged to Peter Fleming and in which he had made hand- written corrections. These amendments have been incorporated. Some new photographs are included taken from Fleming’s album of the expedition’ (p. [6]).
261. RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. PLAYFAIR, Kate. The Narrow Ledge. Cambridge. The Rampant Lions Press. 1968.
£25
8vo. Original red paper-covered boards with label on upper cover. Small dent on spine, lower board a little bumped on fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, limited to 300 copies. 262. RAMPANT LIONS PRESS.
[BROOKE, Rupert].
SCHRODER, John (Complier). Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts by Rupert Brooke, Edward Marsh & Christopher Hassall. Cambridge Rampant Lions Press. 1970.
£250
4to., original green morocco backed buckram lettered in gilt on spine; frontispiece portrait of Brooke by Joan Hassall. Spine slightly sunned, otherwise a near fine copy.
Limited edition of 450 numbered copies, signed by John Schroder and Joan Hassall, this copy one of 50 printed on T.H. Saunders mould-made paper from the mill at Wookey Hole, containing an extra proof of the frontispiece signed by Joan Hassall, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
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