James Bond First Editions

Bayonets to Lhasa. The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904.

FLEMING, Peter (1907-1971).

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. [Anglo-Tibetan history] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.319; [1]. Profusely illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge red, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s net. Contents and edges clean, jacket with a small scuff/sticker pull else a particularly crisp, fresh copy with an entirely unfaded spine. Robert Peter Fleming OBE was a British adventurer and travel writer, brother of novelist Ian Fleming, and unofficial editor of his James Bond books. He has often been cited as a model for the debonair secret service agent created by his brother. Item #71093

See Campbell; Ian Fleming: A Catalogue of a Collection [22]. Gilbert, p. 618.

Price: £35.00