News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.

FLEMING, Peter (1907-1971).

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 red, bottom edge untrimmed. Contents very clean, no ink names, binding gently handled. A near fine copy without jacket. 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 #73049

Price: £85.00