"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 384 [2]. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a 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. Owner name to half title, lacks free endpaper, some edge wear and tear to folding map, covers are bright and presentable. Very good. Peter Fleming's extraordinary travel narrative in the company of Swiss adventurer Ella Maillart, crossing from Beijing through central China and into the north of the Indian subcontinent. Item #72500
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