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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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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]. Profusely illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge red, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net. Neat ownership to flyleaf, edges slightly dusty, dust-jacket is fine, but..... More
Invasion 1940. An Account of the German Preperations and the British Counter-Measures.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.323; [1]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates and drawings within the text. Publisher's cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. A lightly used copy with some dustiness, a little discolouration to cloth, jacket spine moderately sunned, frayed at..... 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
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
One's Company — A Journey to China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.319; [1], blank. With sixteen black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map, publisher's advertisement leaf on yellow paper tipped in at rear. Elegantly hand-bound in green half calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered..... More
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