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	FLEMING, PETER One's Company: A Journey to China London, Jonathan Cape. 1946. Later printing (1934). 319pp, folding map of China and Manchukuo, frontispiece plus 3 illustrations from photographs by the author. Decorated tan cloth, light wear, internally fine. Small 8vo/20.5cm. Account of a 7-month journey to Communist China in 1933 commissioned by The Times of London and The Spectator. Roger Peter Fleming (1907-1971) former soldier and member of the British upper class, was a popular British writer and traveller who wrote more than a dozen books, most of them on travel. The Royal Geographical Society has instituted a prize in his name for geographical exploration. He was slightly eclipsed by his more well-known brother Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 003711 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	LATTIMORE, ELEANOR HOLGATE Turkestan Reunion New York, The John Day Company. 1934. Ill.: Decorations by Eleanor Frances Lattimore. First Edition. xi, 308pp, endpaper map, monochrome drawing illustrations by the author. 8vo/21cm. Blue cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, printed paper label on spine, author's drawing of caravan exiting Great Wall adhered to front board, bookplate of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on front pastedown indicating it their gift to the Beal Memorial Library in Inchendon Mass "to encourabe a wider knowledge of international relations.", ex-library marks, otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. This is a rather romantic account of the adventurous honeymoon trip of the author, Eleanor Holgate Lattimore (1895-1970) through Chinese Central Asia to meet her husband Owen Lattimore (1900-1989) at the end of his caravan journey in Chugachak from where they continued their journey together through the Himalayas to India. Some of the story is related in the form of letters home to family. Eleanor Holgate married Owen Lattimore in 1926. She had been Secretary of the Peking Institute of Fine Arts at the time. Yakushi L39. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 003088 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	LATTIMORE, ELEANOR HOLGATE Turkestan Reunion. With a New Foreword by Evelyn Stefansson Nef and a Biographical Note by David Lattimore New York, Kodansha American, Inc. 1994. Ill.: Decorations by Eleanor Frances Lattimore. First printin of reprint (1934). xxxv, 323, [i] ad pp, Foreword, Introduction to the 1975 Edition, author's Introduction, monochrome drawing illustrations by the author, 2 double-paged maps, A Word about Proper Names, Biographical Note. 8vo/21.5 cm. Pictorial paper, few small foxing spots on foreedgem, otherwise clean, tight and very good. This is a rather romantic account of the adventurous honeymoon trip of the author, Eleanor Holgate Lattimore (1895-1970) through Chinese Central Asia to meet her husband Owen Lattimore (1900-1989) at the end of his caravan journey in Chugachak from where they continued their journey together through the Himalayas to India. Some of the story is related in the form of letters home to family. Eleanor Holgate married Owen Lattimore in 1926. She had been Secretary of the Peking Institute of Fine Arts at the time. Yakushi L39. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 004367 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	CLOSE, UPTON AND ELSIE MCCORMICK Where the Mountains Walked., in National Geographic Magazine, May 1922 Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society. 1922. Ill.: Stephane Passet, Color Photographer. Volume XLI, No 5, pp 445-472. Entire issue of 120 pages text plus more than fifty pages of ads. The sub-title of the main article is, "An Account of the Recent Earthquake in Kansu Province, China, which Destroyed 100,000 Lives." 1 map, 24 b/w illustrations from photographs taken by the Hayes-Hall Kansu Earthquake Relief Expedition. Sm 4to/25.5cm. Paper, light edgeware, short closed tears at both ends of spine, name of previous owner, light soil, internally fine. Other articles in the issue include Through the Heart of England in a Canadian Canoe; The First Alaskan Air Expedition; The World Viewed from the Air; The Story of the Ruhr; and In the Land of Kublai Khan (16 color photographs of Mongolia). Upton Close is the pseudonym for Josef Washington Hall (1894-1960), author of The Revolt of Asia (1920) and other books on Asia. He was a noted journalist and radio commentator who sometimes signed his journalistic dispatches, "Up Close" and was often in trouble for his controversial statements. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1376] Book number: 002556 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.

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	FLEMING, PETER One's Company: A Journey to China London, Jonathan Cape. 1946. Later printing (1934). 319pp, folding map of China and Manchukuo, frontispiece plus 3 illustrations from photographs by the author. Decorated tan cloth, light wear, internally fine. Small 8vo/20.5cm. Account of a 7-month journey to Communist China in 1933 commissioned by The Times of London and The Spectator. Roger Peter Fleming (1907-1971) former soldier and member of the British upper class, was a popular British writer and traveller who wrote more than a dozen books, most of them on travel. The Royal Geographical Society has instituted a prize in his name for geographical exploration. He was slightly eclipsed by his more well-known brother Ian Fleming, of James Bond fame. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 003711 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	LATTIMORE, ELEANOR HOLGATE Turkestan Reunion New York, The John Day Company. 1934. Ill.: Decorations by Eleanor Frances Lattimore. First Edition. xi, 308pp, endpaper map, monochrome drawing illustrations by the author. 8vo/21cm. Blue cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, printed paper label on spine, author's drawing of caravan exiting Great Wall adhered to front board, bookplate of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on front pastedown indicating it their gift to the Beal Memorial Library in Inchendon Mass "to encourabe a wider knowledge of international relations.", ex-library marks, otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. This is a rather romantic account of the adventurous honeymoon trip of the author, Eleanor Holgate Lattimore (1895-1970) through Chinese Central Asia to meet her husband Owen Lattimore (1900-1989) at the end of his caravan journey in Chugachak from where they continued their journey together through the Himalayas to India. Some of the story is related in the form of letters home to family. Eleanor Holgate married Owen Lattimore in 1926. She had been Secretary of the Peking Institute of Fine Arts at the time. Yakushi L39. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 003088 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	LATTIMORE, ELEANOR HOLGATE Turkestan Reunion. With a New Foreword by Evelyn Stefansson Nef and a Biographical Note by David Lattimore New York, Kodansha American, Inc. 1994. Ill.: Decorations by Eleanor Frances Lattimore. First printin of reprint (1934). xxxv, 323, [i] ad pp, Foreword, Introduction to the 1975 Edition, author's Introduction, monochrome drawing illustrations by the author, 2 double-paged maps, A Word about Proper Names, Biographical Note. 8vo/21.5 cm. Pictorial paper, few small foxing spots on foreedgem, otherwise clean, tight and very good. This is a rather romantic account of the adventurous honeymoon trip of the author, Eleanor Holgate Lattimore (1895-1970) through Chinese Central Asia to meet her husband Owen Lattimore (1900-1989) at the end of his caravan journey in Chugachak from where they continued their journey together through the Himalayas to India. Some of the story is related in the form of letters home to family. Eleanor Holgate married Owen Lattimore in 1926. She had been Secretary of the Peking Institute of Fine Arts at the time. Yakushi L39. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 004367 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.
	CLOSE, UPTON AND ELSIE MCCORMICK Where the Mountains Walked., in National Geographic Magazine, May 1922 Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society. 1922. Ill.: Stephane Passet, Color Photographer. Volume XLI, No 5, pp 445-472. Entire issue of 120 pages text plus more than fifty pages of ads. The sub-title of the main article is, "An Account of the Recent Earthquake in Kansu Province, China, which Destroyed 100,000 Lives." 1 map, 24 b/w illustrations from photographs taken by the Hayes-Hall Kansu Earthquake Relief Expedition. Sm 4to/25.5cm. Paper, light edgeware, short closed tears at both ends of spine, name of previous owner, light soil, internally fine. Other articles in the issue include Through the Heart of England in a Canadian Canoe; The First Alaskan Air Expedition; The World Viewed from the Air; The Story of the Ruhr; and In the Land of Kublai Khan (16 color photographs of Mongolia). Upton Close is the pseudonym for Josef Washington Hall (1894-1960), author of The Revolt of Asia (1920) and other books on Asia. He was a noted journalist and radio commentator who sometimes signed his journalistic dispatches, "Up Close" and was often in trouble for his controversial statements. USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1376] Book number: 002556 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books.