Brazilian Adventure; One’s Company; News from Tartary
FLEMING, Peter
Brazilian Adventure; One’s Company; News from Tartary
London: Jonathan Cape, 1933-1936
8vo., 3 vols; each in the original publisher’s cloth, Vol I in orange, lettered and embossed in lime green to upper cover and spine, with publisher’s device in blind to lower board; upper edge stained a matching orange; Vol II in dark green lettered and embossed in orange to upper board and spine, publisher’s device in blind to lower, and upper edge stained a matching green; Vol III in burgundy cloth with Chinese symbols in gilt to upper board; backstrip lettered in gilt with publisher’s device to foot; pp. [iv], 5-414, [ii]; [vi], 7-319, [i]; [iv], 5-384; with numerous black and white photographs, maps and folding maps; very good copies, Brazilian Adventure a little rubbed with some darkening to the backstrip, some light spotting to outer edges with some pencil markings and a previous owner’s name in ink to the front paste-down; One’s Company also a little darkened at backstrip, with evidence of bookplate sometime removed from the ffep; map misfolded with some creasing and nicking to protruding outer edge; News from Tartary with previous owner’s name crossed out to ffep and some pencil markings (some erased) from prelims; corners a touch bumped.
A first edition set of Peter Fleming’s three most famous works. Brazilian Adventure is a second impression, published the same year as the first. This set in the lovely decorated publisher’s cloth, and comes together with two large folding sheets with a series of original handpainted designs for the dustwrapper of ‘Brazilian Adventure’, presumably an examination piece from an unidentified graphic design course sometime in the 1960s or 70s.
FLEMING, Peter
Brazilian Adventure; One’s Company; News from Tartary
London: Jonathan Cape, 1933-1936
8vo., 3 vols; each in the original publisher’s cloth, Vol I in orange, lettered and embossed in lime green to upper cover and spine, with publisher’s device in blind to lower board; upper edge stained a matching orange; Vol II in dark green lettered and embossed in orange to upper board and spine, publisher’s device in blind to lower, and upper edge stained a matching green; Vol III in burgundy cloth with Chinese symbols in gilt to upper board; backstrip lettered in gilt with publisher’s device to foot; pp. [iv], 5-414, [ii]; [vi], 7-319, [i]; [iv], 5-384; with numerous black and white photographs, maps and folding maps; very good copies, Brazilian Adventure a little rubbed with some darkening to the backstrip, some light spotting to outer edges with some pencil markings and a previous owner’s name in ink to the front paste-down; One’s Company also a little darkened at backstrip, with evidence of bookplate sometime removed from the ffep; map misfolded with some creasing and nicking to protruding outer edge; News from Tartary with previous owner’s name crossed out to ffep and some pencil markings (some erased) from prelims; corners a touch bumped.
A first edition set of Peter Fleming’s three most famous works. Brazilian Adventure is a second impression, published the same year as the first. This set in the lovely decorated publisher’s cloth, and comes together with two large folding sheets with a series of original handpainted designs for the dustwrapper of ‘Brazilian Adventure’, presumably an examination piece from an unidentified graphic design course sometime in the 1960s or 70s.
FLEMING, Peter
Brazilian Adventure; One’s Company; News from Tartary
London: Jonathan Cape, 1933-1936
8vo., 3 vols; each in the original publisher’s cloth, Vol I in orange, lettered and embossed in lime green to upper cover and spine, with publisher’s device in blind to lower board; upper edge stained a matching orange; Vol II in dark green lettered and embossed in orange to upper board and spine, publisher’s device in blind to lower, and upper edge stained a matching green; Vol III in burgundy cloth with Chinese symbols in gilt to upper board; backstrip lettered in gilt with publisher’s device to foot; pp. [iv], 5-414, [ii]; [vi], 7-319, [i]; [iv], 5-384; with numerous black and white photographs, maps and folding maps; very good copies, Brazilian Adventure a little rubbed with some darkening to the backstrip, some light spotting to outer edges with some pencil markings and a previous owner’s name in ink to the front paste-down; One’s Company also a little darkened at backstrip, with evidence of bookplate sometime removed from the ffep; map misfolded with some creasing and nicking to protruding outer edge; News from Tartary with previous owner’s name crossed out to ffep and some pencil markings (some erased) from prelims; corners a touch bumped.
A first edition set of Peter Fleming’s three most famous works. Brazilian Adventure is a second impression, published the same year as the first. This set in the lovely decorated publisher’s cloth, and comes together with two large folding sheets with a series of original handpainted designs for the dustwrapper of ‘Brazilian Adventure’, presumably an examination piece from an unidentified graphic design course sometime in the 1960s or 70s.