Author: Artemis Cooper
Title: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
Description: New York, New York Review of Books, 2013 . First edition. Hardback. The first US edition of Artemis Cooper's biography of English travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. The first US edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped binding. First published in the UK the year prior, Cooper offers an account of the life of the adventurer, soldier, and author, who at the age of eighteen trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages.This work traces much of Fermor's life, with particular focus on the Second World War.Illustrated with monochrome photographic plates. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to spine head, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper in fine condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Fine.

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