News From Tartary. [Revised and expanded reissue. With Foreword by Kate Grimond.] 150 COPIES WERE PRINTED
by FLEMING Peter
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Queen Anne Press,, [2010]. 8vo., with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Splendid, expanded reissue of the original edition of 1936, with new Foreword by the author's daughter; the binding matches that of the original Cape edition.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47609
- Title
- News From Tartary. [Revised and expanded reissue. With Foreword by Kate Grimond.] 150 COPIES WERE PRINTED
- Author
- FLEMING Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Queen Anne Press,
- Date Published
- [2010]
- Keywords
- mstock, travel, far east, tartary, china, india, fleming, peter fleming, ella maillart, private press, queen anne press
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