Publicado por John Murray Publishers, 2004
ISBN 10: 071956106X ISBN 13: 9780719561061
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Publicado por New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, 2014
ISBN 10: 1590177541 ISBN 13: 9781590177549
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Publicado por John Murray, 2013
ISBN 10: 1848547528 ISBN 13: 9781848547520
Librería: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Publicado por NYRB Classics (edition Illustrated), 2015
ISBN 10: 1590177797 ISBN 13: 9781590177792
Librería: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Illustrated. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
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Publicado por Murray Cards (International) Ltd, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719561051 ISBN 13: 9780719561054
Librería: MusicMagpie, Stockport, Reino Unido
Condición: Very Good. 1720092992. 7/4/2024 11:36:32 AM.
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Publicado por Skyhorse, 2014
ISBN 10: 1629142239 ISBN 13: 9781629142234
Librería: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por John Murray, 2013
ISBN 10: 0719565499 ISBN 13: 9780719565496
Librería: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
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paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition.
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Publicado por NY: NYRB (2013)., 2013
Librería: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, Estados Unidos de America
First US edition. xiii + 448 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
Publicado por New York Review Books, 2014
ISBN 10: 1590177541 ISBN 13: 9781590177549
Librería: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. First Thus. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($30.00 price intact). Published by New York Review Books, 2013. Octavo. Book is like new with very light toning to the top page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very light creasing to the spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 0719554497 ISBN 13: 9780719554490
Librería: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
Trade Paperback. Condición: New. 1st Pbk Edition. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated polymath, a lover of Greece and the best company in the world. Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Paddy and his closest friends as well as having complete access to his archives. Her beautifully crafted biography portrays a man of extraordinary gifts - no one wore their learning so playfully, nor inspired such passionate friendship. 448 pp. Book.
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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, 2003
Librería: STEVE BROWN, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover.
Publicado por New York Review of Books, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 1590177541 ISBN 13: 9781590177549
Librería: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st edition US. 1st ptg., 8vo paper covered boards, covering the final leg of Fermor's 1933 "walk across Europe", assembled from his notes and manuscripts posthumously. Red dot to bottom of page block else fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Publicado por Murray Cards (International) Ltd, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719561051 ISBN 13: 9780719561054
Librería: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Not price-clipped (£20.00 price intact). Published by John Murray, 2003. Octavo. Blue cloth boards stamped in silver with gray endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 275 pages. ISBN: 9780719561054. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003. 0719561051, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719561051 ISBN 13: 9780719561054
Librería: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, Reino Unido
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1st edn 5th printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. ix + 274, with b&w illus (no inscriptions).
Publicado por John Murray Publishers, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0719555272 ISBN 13: 9780719555275
Librería: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Mint. First Thus. This copy is in mint, unread condition, bright, white, tight and square, in illustrated card covers as issued. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records. Ref AA1.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2012
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 448pp. Dark blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with fifty-two photographs and two holograph manuscript reproductions. Contemporary former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A biography of Paddy Fermor, penned by his literary executor.
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, 2012
Librería: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. SIGNED directly to title page by Artemis Cooper with no inscription. Later printing. Fine with fine, price-intact dust jacket. Appears unread. Signed.
Publicado por Metaichmio, Athens, 2014
ISBN 10: 9605663856 ISBN 13: 9789605663858
Librería: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
French Wraps. Condición: New Book from Greece. Cooper, Artemis & Thubron, Colin [Eds] Ilustrador. 1st Greek Edition. Translation by Myrsine Gana into Greek of "The Broken Road : From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos" edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper. This is the reconstructed e final part of the trilogy of journeys by Patrick Leigh Fermor [Sequel to "A Time Of Gifts' and "Between the Woods and the Water] 431p. {2 copies found in WorldCat]. Book.
2003 1ST FINE /FINE.
Publicado por John Murray London 2003, 2003
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
reprint hardback with dust jacket As New octavo ix + 274pp., 'a gathering of his most evocative writings, drawn from his books, journalism and letters - much never published in book form'.
Publicado por John Murray London 2013, 2013
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo xxi + 362pp., b/w plate, maps, index, Continuation of his first two classic travel books A Time of Gifts & Between the Woods and the Water.
Publicado por John Murray London 2013, 2013
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xxi + 362pp., b/w plate, maps, index, Neat ownership signature o/w 'as new'.
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 London: John Murray, 2003, 2003
Librería: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Reino Unido
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[Travel Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 274 [4]. Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the blue dust-jacket, priced at £20. Toning and a little spotting to edges, otherwise a lovely crisp copy. Near fine. A selection of the best of Fermor's travel writing, newspaper articles, and letters, including much previously unpublished material.
Publicado por London : John Murray, 2013
ISBN 10: 1848547528 ISBN 13: 9781848547520
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by both editors. Physical description: xxi, 362 pages : illustration (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm. Contents: Introduction / by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper -- From the Iron Gates -- A Hanging Glass Box -- Over the Great Balkan -- To the Danube -- The Wallachian Plain -- Bucharest -- To Varna -- Dancing by the Black Sea -- Constantinople -- Mount Athos. Subjects: Fermor, Patrick Leigh 1915-2011 Travel; Fermor, Patrick Leigh Travel Balkan Peninsula; Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Travel; Balkan Peninsula Description and travel; Athos (Greece) Description and travel; Europe Description and travel; Balkan Peninsula. 1 Kg.