Forbidden Journey from Peking to Kashmir
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1937). Ella Maillart (photography). First US Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 306. Frontis. b&w photo "In the Pamirs." Illustrated with many b&w photo reproductions and maps. Notes and index. Translated from the French by Thomas McGreevy. Brick colored cloth with spine titles stamped in gilt, endpaper maps, head edges dyed dark red. Minimal toning to endpapers and leaf edges, else crisp and square with tight binding. In the two color illustrated dust jacket, unclipped: edges with light edge-wear, spine color intact. Very Good+ / Very Good+. Item #12823 The scarce dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Published in French as Oasis interdites - De Pékin au Cachemire. "Thrilling story of a young Swiss woman's journey through the mysterious wastes of Chinese Turkestan with Peter Fleming, a British Journalist who told his side of the story in News from Tartary."
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