Publicado por John Murray, 2013
ISBN 10: 1848547528 ISBN 13: 9781848547520
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Publicado por John Murray, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 1848549334 ISBN 13: 9781848549333
Librería: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
Trade Paperback. Condición: Fine. Edited Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper Ilustrador. First Pbk.Ed. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III ' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but The Broken Road - edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper - completes an extraordinary journey.362p. Book.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 071956106X ISBN 13: 9780719561061
Librería: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condición: New. Edited By Artemis Cooper Ilustrador. First Pbk.Ed. "Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople .it was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages wherever he went an to develop his extraordinary sense of the continuity of history : a quality that deepens and colours of every place that he writes about , from the parks of the Pyrenees to the cell fo a Trappist Monastery. Its infectious enthusiasm is driven by an insatiable curiosity and an omnivorous mind - all inspired by a passion for words and language that makes hom one of the greatest prose writers of his generation" A wonderful anthology of extracts from his books, book reviews and essays .274p.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003,, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719561051 ISBN 13: 9780719561054
Librería: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, Reino Unido
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1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 274pp, gift inscription on title page from the editor to John Julius Norwich, edges browning, otherwise clean and tight, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0719561051.
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Publicado por John Murray (Publishers)/Hodder Headline, London,, 2003
Librería: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Octavo; hardcover 274pp. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Skill with the sword usually precludes much competence with the pen. For all that Sir Philip Sidney could write sequences of Petrarchan sonnets as well as lead buccaneering raids on the Spanish Netherlands, or Siegfried Sassoon write his anti-war memoirs while also winning the Military Cross, bookishness and military machismo are rarely found roosting together (after all, it's no secret, as the old joke goes, that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms). The great exception to this rule in our own time is Patrick Leigh Fermor. For though he is one of our finest prose stylists and - since the death this summer of his only possible rival, Norman Lewis - without question our greatest living travel writer, he was also responsible for one of the most audacious special operations coups of the second world war. Leigh Fermor's own account of the abduction of General Kreipe, the German commander of the Nazi occupation forces in Crete, is published for the first time in Artemis Cooper's wonderful new anthology of Leigh Fermor's work, Words of Mercury. The story is a famous one, and in the film version, entitled 'Ill Met by Moonlight', Paddy was played by the dashing Dirk Bogarde. But in Leigh Fermor's own account, the climax comes not as the general's staff car is stopped at night by a British SOE party dressed in stolen German uniforms, nor as the Cretan partisans help smuggle the general into the Cretan highlands and thence to a waiting British submarine; but instead as "a brilliant dawn was breaking over the crest of Mount Ida": "We were all three lying smoking in silence, when the General, half to himself, slowly said: ' Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Socrate'. It was the opening lines of one of the few Horace odes I knew by heart. I went on reciting where he had broken off . The General's blue eyes swivelled away from the mountain-top to mine - and when I'd finished, after a long silence, he said: 'Ach so, Herr Major!' It was very strange. 'Ja, Herr General.' As though for a moment, the war had ceased to exist. We had both drunk at the same fountains long before; and things were different between us for the rest of our time together." It is an archetypal Leigh Fermor anecdote: beautifully written, fabulously romantic and just a little showy. For Leigh Fermor's greatest virtues as a writer are also his greatest vices: his incantational love of great waterfalls of words, combined with the wild, scholarly enthusiasms of a brilliant autodidact. On the rare occasions he gets it wrong, Paddy has been responsible for some of the most highly coloured purple passages in travel literature. But at his best he is sublime, unbeatable" (William Dalrymple in The Guardian). 9780719561054.
Publicado por John Murray, 2014
ISBN 10: 1848547544 ISBN 13: 9781848547544
Librería: FARRAGO, HUDDERSFIELD, YORKS, Reino Unido
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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. * AS PICTURED * FIRST EDITION, First Printing, with single 'I' on copyright page. Minimal evidence of wear, one light crease to spine, otherwise Fine. (proceeds to Motor Neurone Disease Research, mnda).
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2003
Librería: BookSmith, Canterbury, Reino Unido
FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING (full number string). 8vo hardback with dust jacket (unclipped: £20), [ix] + 274pp, illustrated with one black and white plate. Clean copy with no inscriptions or annotation. Pages a little edge-toned. Overall VG/VG. ISBN: 0719561051 (BS17).
Publicado por John Murray., London, 2013
Librería: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, Reino Unido
8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. xix + [3] maps + 362 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Illustrated by photograph of author, and by 4 maps. Decorated by title page and head and tailpiece vignettes. Red patterned endpapers. The final part of the pre-war walk of Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) covers the section from the Iron Gates in Romania to Mount Athos in Greece. In the early 1930s the author had set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople and the journey as far as the Iron Gates was described in A Time of Gifts (1977) and Between the Woods and the Water (1986). The Broken Road brings together two texts left by Leigh Fermor; the first written in the 1960s describes his travels through Romania and Bulgaria to Northern Greece, the second is his only surviving diary, describing his stay in Mount Athos. The book is edited by his two literary executors. Third reprint of the first edition. TRAVEL EUROPE TRAVEL DIARIES EASTERN EUROPE 20TH CENTURY TRAVEL.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2013
Librería: BookSmith, Canterbury, Reino Unido
SIGNED by Artemis Cooper. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo., black clothbound hardback, with colour pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) plus endpapers by Ed Kluz; [xxi] + 362pp, indexed, with one black and white plate, plus two maps. Signature of the editor Artemis Cooper in black ink to title page. VG/VG. ISBN: 9781848547520 (BS47).
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2003
Librería: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de America
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Early printing of this collection of essays by Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designed by Octavius Murray. Edited by Artemis Cooper. Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 years old when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary sense of the continuity of history. Whether he is drawing portraits in Vienna or sketching Byron's slippers in Missolonghi, his touch in unmistakable. Its infectious enthusiasm is driven by an insatiable curiosity and an omnivorous mindall inspired by a passion for words and language. "He makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes, has read everything, been everywhere and writes like a dream" (Times).