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Peter Fleming (Strix) | First Editions
1907 - 1971
Robert Peter Fleming, OBE (31 May 1907 – 18 August 1971) was an accomplished British adventurer and travel writer. He published numerous non-fiction works, as well as fiction. In his journlistic career, Fleming was a special correspondent for The Times and often wrote under the pen-name "Strix" (Latin for "screech owl"); he was also an essayist for The Spectator. Peter Fleming was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.
Fleming's achievements are celebrated in the Peter Fleming Award, worth £9,000, which is given by the Royal Geographic Society to a "research project that seeks to advance geographical science".
See below our stock of Peter Fleming First Editions.
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Brazilian Adventure.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.364. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. Absolutely fine/As new. Out of print for..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recent burgundy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to black morocco label on spine, and original publisher's burgundy cloth over boards, with "Fu Lei-Ming" in..... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.382. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. New book, sold at the RRP of..... More
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Publisher's green cloth with orange titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Minns, priced at 8s..... More
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map. Contemporary tan half morocco by FOX of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to brown labels, further gilt tooling to spine..... More
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