Lot
4202
Lot 4202
General – Fleming ([Robert] Peter, OBE, DL, 1907-1971), Bayo...
Estimate
£40 - £60
General – Fleming ([Robert] Peter, OBE, DL, 1907-1971), Bayonets to Lhasa: the First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904, London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961, 8vo, 319pp, frontis of Col. Sir Francis Younghusband, 29 plates, 5 maps, maroon cloth, gilt titles, d. w. with clear plastic cover; Gandhi (Mohondas Karamchand 1869-1948), ed. Mehta (Usha), Mahatma: A Golden Treasury of Wisdom – Thoughts and Glimpses of Life, Bombay 1995, small 8vo, vii + 88pp, illustrated, bound with portrait and brown title son white boards; Stevenson (Robert Louis Balfour 1850-1894), Treasure Island, London, Eldon Press, n. d. (1950s), 12mo, vii + 294pp, colour frontis and 11 monochrome plates after Stephen Read, blue boards with mounted illustration, gilt titles to spine, spine faded; Milne (Allan Alexander, 1882-1956), Now We Are Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, London, Magnet, 1982 16mo, in colour printed slip case; Anon. Life of General Gordon, London, Walter Scott, 1887, 12mo, viii + 369pp, mounted sepia photographic portrait of subject, frontis., gilt edges, black embossed red boards; Travelman Short Stories, set of five, London, 1998, 93 x 196mm card bound with five-fold opening: H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind; Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and One of the Missing; A. E. Coppard, The Higgler; D. H. Larence, The Rocking Horse Winner & A Fragment of Stained Glass, and Edgar Allen Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum (10)
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