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114. 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. 37 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 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]).
115. FLEMWELL, G. Alpine Flowers and Gardens. A. & C. Black. 1910.
£90
8vo. original green decorative cloth; pp.. x + 167 + [1] + [4, ads], 20 full page colour plates; very good. Provenance: inscribed by the author to front pastedown.
First edition. inman 123.
116. FLETCHER, Major T. L. (Compiler). Army Physical Training corps centenary 1860 - 1960. [Aldershot. Printed by Gale & Polden]. [1960].
£498
8vo., original single gilt line panelled red morocco with crown and crossed swords blocked in gilt on upper board, with original glassine wrapper in original box, with regimental colour ribbon bookmark. illustrated with black and white photographs. A fine copy.
First edition, presentation copy in deluxe binding, with a bookplate signed by Field marshal montgomery, the colonel commandant, presenting this copy to Brigadier A E c Bredin DSo mc, the acting inspector of Physical Training.
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This 44 page centenary publication includes a foreword by montgomery. “This brochure presents to the reader an account of the development of physical training in our Army during the past hyndred years. From small beginnings in 1860, the story unfolds until we finally see the creation of the Army Physical Training corps in 1940 - a corps which has the highest standards of discipline and devotion to duty.”
Brigadier “Speedy” Bredin won an mc in normandy in 1944, a DSo, and was also mentioned in dispatches. in 1954 Bredin, who “was always careful to preserve an immaculate appearance - for the sake of regimental morale,” was with the 1/6th Gurkhas in malaya. “As he was the co, the dhobi wallah starched and creased his shorts to such perfection that when he sat in his office he would take them off and stand them up in a corner Before emerging to inspect the lines, Speedy would step into his crisp shorts, giving no sign that he’d been working at his desk in a temperature of more than 90 degrees F, with accompanying humidity.”
117. [FOUQUÉ, Friedrich Heinrich Carl de la Motte] (author). Hon. C.[aroline] L.[avinia] LYTTELTON (translator). Undine. A Tale From The German. London: Bell And Daldy. 1859.
£128
8vo. original blue textured cloth heavily panelled and decorated in blind to both boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, edges uncut; pp. [vii], 6-122 + [i]; with engraved title, decorated letterpress title, and a few small engravings to the text; a very nice copy indeed with minor rubbing to spine ends and joints; internally generally very clean and sound with occasional light spotting and slightly heavier browning between pages 79 and 82; page 91 incorrectly numbered 94, but complete.
First separate edition of this translation from the German of de la motte Fouqué. Bell and Daldy published a combined translation of this title, together with the story “The White Lady” by caroline von Woltmann, in 1844.
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