Author: FERMOR Patrick Leigh
Title: A Time of Gifts. On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube. [With Introductory Letter to Xan Fielding]. [Sixth Impression.] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Description: John Murray,, [1987]. 8vo., Sixth Impression, with double-page map in the text; navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. First published in 1977, this is widely regarded as the author's masterpiece and one of the greatest travel books of the twentieth century. With dustwrapper artwork by John Craxton. SIGNED COPIES ARE SCARCE.

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