Brazilian Adventure [and] News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.

FLEMING, Peter (1907-1971), [GRIMOND, Kate, introductions].

London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel / adventure] LIMITED EDITIONS, matching reissues thus. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.364 [4]; pp.382 [2]. Both being number 146 of 150 copies thus, hand-numbered to the limitation page at rear. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth bound to the design of the original first edition bindings. Illustrated with photographs. A pair of fine, as-new copies. The Queen Anne Press was previously owned by Peter Fleming's brother Ian, and is now managed by Kate Grimond and her cousin Fergus Fleming. Intrepid explorer and intelligence officer Peter Fleming was an occasional editor of his younger brother's James Bond thrillers, and has often been cited as an inspiration for the dashing spy. Out of print for many years, this is a fine limited and expanded re-issue of arguably the author's two most important travel books, with new introductions by his daughter Kate Grimond. Item #74953

Gilbert, p.618.

Price: £275.00