Fleming Peter Robert Peter Fleming 1907 1971 (3 results)

American first edition (per Scribner's "A" letter code and company logo upon copyright page). 412 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled; strong color fading to spine panel; pictorial front panel retains strong color; chipping to spine ends and flap fold corners; rear flap creased; front flap retains publisher's printed price ($2.75) at top right; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Off-white cloth with some foxing/toning. Text block edges toned; deckle fore-edge. Map illustrated endpapers. Some foxing/toning to interior leaves with strongest occurrences to b/w plates and their adjoining pages; interior leaves overall remain clean. Binding is firm. The elder brother of novelist Ian Fleming, Peter Fleming was a British adventurer, journalist, and travel writer who remains best known for this first book, a travel adventure in the Brazilian jungle in search of the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett expedition. BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE was first published in Great Britain in 1933. {SouthAm-Shelf#1}.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 6 X 8.5 inches. 412 pages. Beige hardcover with green and black type on front and spine. Cover boards slightly toned and soiled. American first edition (per Scribner's "A" letter code and company logo upon copyright page). Dust jacket has color fading to spine panel but pictorial front panel color still bright; chipping to spine ends and fedges. Illustrated with over 20 photographs. Front flap retains publisher's printed price ($2.75) Now presented in mylar protection. Text block edges toned; deckle fore-edge. Map illustrated endpapers. Solid square binding "The elder brother of novelist Ian Fleming, Peter Fleming was a British adventurer, journalist, and travel writer who remains best known for this first book, a travel adventure in the Brazilian jungle in search of the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett expedition.". …

American first edition (per Scribner's "A" letter code and company logo upon copyright page) WITH HANDWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 412 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled; several small chips, creasing, nicks, and short tears at edges; color fading to spine panel; pictorial front panel retains strong color; front flap's top corner is price-creased; dj now presented in an older mylar Brodart protector. Off-white cloth with some foxing/toning and light soiling. Gray top edge; toning to bottom edge and deckle fore-edge. Map illustrated endpapers; nautical and book-themed personal bookplate for George H. Williamson affixed to front pastedown; laid-in at lightly toned front flyleaf verso and half-title page is 1940 newspaper clipping with article erroneously reporting the author's death; slight toning to pages opposite book's unpaged b/w plates; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Tipped-in to front flyleaf recto is eight-line handwritten letter on what is presumably Fleming's personal stationery although without his name but specifying phone# and address of 9 Mulberry Close, Beaufort Street, S.W.3. [London]; letter in author's cursive reads: "Feb 7. 1934 | Dear Mr. Williamson, | Thank you so | much for your letter and | the [illegible]. I'm glad you | liked the book. I [illegible]. | yours very truly | Peter Fleming." The elder brother of novelist Ian Fleming, Peter Fleming was a British adventurer, journalist, and travel writer who remains best known for this first book, a travel adventure in the Brazilian jungle in search of the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett expedition. BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE was first published in Great Britain in 1933. {SouthAm-Shelf#2}.…