Translated by Peter Fleming (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Prior owner name on ffep.CLipped Dj in archival cover, edge wear, chips. Clean, no writing, no marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. Illustrated. DJ nicely in archival wraps with heavy wear and major chip taken from the spine; pages dusty with age toning; previous inscription inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not relevant. Travel Book Club, London, no date (c. 1956?); 8vo, 150 x 220mm; pp 288; 38 photographs; red boards, spine a little faded but still a good copy; no dust wrapper. . . . . . Tibet was annexed by China in 1951, following the success of the Chinese Communist Party in defeating the Nationalists.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. 228 pp , map as frontispiece, brown cloth gilt title to spine. Slight faded to cloth otherwise clean and sound , no dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Firmly bound, blue cloth boards. discolouration on front cover. Marks on title page and back end paper. Foxing on closed page edges. The jacket is in poor condition with some scuffing, some large tears and creases plus a little paper loss.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 3rd Impression. owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: well used Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 303 pages. Black/white photos. Spine slightly sunned. A firm, straight book. Scan available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO JACKET. Hardback 1954. 6th impression. 22x14.5cm. xiii+288 pages plus plates. All the listed plates & maps are in place. SPINE IS FADED & HAS SURFACE SCRATCHES. Clean & very tight book. Front end paper has an inscription dated 1972. No other inscriptions. Flat pages. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner, securely boxed in cardboard, ref f8668.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Edge wear, chipping, creasing and some loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners and folds rubbed, spine slightly sunned, not price clipped (18s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 288pp, illustrated. André Migot (1892-1967), was a French doctor, traveller and writer. After the war he went to Indochina, from where in 1947 he made a journey alone through Eastern Tibet and China in order to research aspects of Tibetan Buddhism. During this journey he tried but failed to reach Lhasa disguised as a mendicant lama. As he could speak and write Tibetan, he was able to converse with the lamas, and was initiated into the rituals of one of the Buddhist sects. Traveller, writer and wartime special ops agent Peter Fleming (1907-71), was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Jacket and photos by the author (illustrator).…

Second impression. Octavo hardcover; blue boards with gilt spine titling; 288pp., monochrome plates, top edges dyed red. Owner's Christmas gift tag on front endpaper; owner's name. Minor wear; toned and spotted text block edges; mild foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper worn and rubbed along edges with missing segment on head of spine and adjacent, faded and well-rubbed spine-panel. Wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film with white paper backing. Good to very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original crimson paper covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 288 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Minimal wear to the covers, foxing to the closed page edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with surface staining to the white of the spine and rear panel, shallow nicks to the spine ends. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. TIBET (Qing Dynasty).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some wear to corners. DJ in protective cover. 1st Edition. xvi + 288 pp., color frontis, b/w photos, map. Translated from the German. First English edition, 4th printing, but done the same year as the 1st printing. Unclipped, price of 16s net on bottom front inside flap. Fascinating account of escape across the Himalayas and of the years he spent in Tibet, by one of Germany's top pre-war mountaineers (first ascent of north face of the Eiger in 1938). Translated from German by Richard Graves and with an introduction by Peter Fleming. …