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106. FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Jonathan Cape. 1966.
£198
Crown 8vo. Original black cloth, blocked in gilt; a fine copy in the dust- jacket.
First edition.
First edition thus, no. 57 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,
FLEMING’S CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF HIS 3,500-MILE JOURNEY FROM BEIJING TO SRINAGAR, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES
107. 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. 56 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) Manchuria and taking part in a sortie
in
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
108. 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.
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 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]).
109. FORESTER, C.S. The Hornblower Companion. Michael Joseph. 1964.
£148
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Illustrated with maps and drawings by Samuel H Bryant. A very good copy in a used jacket.
First edition. “The story of how the Hornblower saga came to be - with thirty maps illuminating all of the major exploits of this legendary figure”
110. FRASER, George MacDonald. Royal Flash. Barrie & Jenkins 1970.
£198
8vo., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper. Wrapper a little chipped with a couple of repaired tears, neat ink inscription on title-page otherwise a very good copy.
First edition.
111. FRASER, George MacDonald. Flashman’s Lady. Barrie & Jenkins. 1977.
£125
8vo. Original red boards; endpaper maps; a fine copy in a fine dust-jacket. First edition
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