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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Bayonets to Lhasa. The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. [Anglo-Tibetan history]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.319; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket. Profusely illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. Neat ownership to flyleaf, edges slightly dusty, cloth slightly rubbed to extremities. Dust-jacket creased and chipped, some... More
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
The Fate of Admiral Kolchak.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963. [Russian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.253 [3]. With seven double-sided photographic plates and a photographic portrait frontispiece of the subject. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red and yellow dust-jacket illustrated with a map. Top edge grey. Light spotting... 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. Absolutely fine/As new. Out of print for... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.384. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, fold-out map. Publisher's red cloth, with "Fu Lei-Ming" in gilt to front board, gilt titles to spine; top edge stained red, bottom edge untrimmed. Edges and covers dusty, single mark to fore-edge. A very... More
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