Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Title: A Time of Gifts
Description: London, John Murray, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of the first of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel work about his impressive expedition on foot across Europe. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and a double page map. Collated, complete.A vivid travel work by Patrick Leigh Fermor, documenting his journey on foot walking the length of Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. At the time Leigh Fermor was only 18, and set off on this expedition on the 8th December 1933 with only a few items of clothing, some letters of introduction, the 'Oxford Book of English Verse', and a Loeb volume of the 'Odes' of Horace. He finally arrived in Constantinople on the 1st January 1935.This volume was followed by 'Between the Woods and the Water' and 'The Broken Road&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Light handling marks to dust wrapper rear wraps, minor closed tears to wrap heads. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor A Time of Gifts Constantinople Patrick Leigh Fermor Not Stated
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Title: A Time of Gifts
Description: London, John Murray, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of the first of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel work about his impressive expedition on foot across Europe. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and a double page map. Collated, complete.A vivid travel work by Patrick Leigh Fermor, documenting his journey on foot walking the length of Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. At the time Leigh Fermor was only 18, and set off on this expedition on the 8th December 1933 with only a few items of clothing, some letters of introduction, the 'Oxford Book of English Verse', and a Loeb volume of the 'Odes' of Horace. He finally arrived in Constantinople on the 1st January 1935.This volume was followed by 'Between the Woods and the Water' and 'The Broken Road&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Light handling marks to dust wrapper rear wraps, minor closed tears to wrap heads. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor A Time of Gifts Constantinople Patrick Leigh Fermor Not Stated
Price: GBP 325.00 = appr. US$ 464.10 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 941F7
- Book number: 941F7
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