Item #69789 My Aunt's Rhinoceros And Other Reflections [and] With the Guards to Mexico! And Other Excursions. Peter FLEMING.
My Aunt's Rhinoceros And Other Reflections [and] With the Guards to Mexico! And Other Excursions.
My Aunt's Rhinoceros And Other Reflections [and] With the Guards to Mexico! And Other Excursions.

My Aunt's Rhinoceros And Other Reflections [and] With the Guards to Mexico! And Other Excursions.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956, 1957. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavos (21 x 14cm), pp.189; [3], blank; 209; [3], blank. Publisher's hardcover bindings, pictorial dust-jackets priced 12/6 or 16s. Contents clean, top edge slightly spotted, no ink names, jackets lightly handled with minor rubs, chip to top edge of 'Guards'. A very good pair indeed. A selection of Peter Fleming's writings from The Spectator, plus the companion book. Includes 'The Small Ghosts', about his prep school days, boarding at Durnford School (with brother Ian Fleming) on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. The present copy is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012, published by Peter Fleming's daughter Kate Grimond) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #69789

Price: £95.00

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