FIELDING Xan

Corsair Country. The Diary of a Journey along the Barbary Coast.

Secker & Warburg,, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates and rear endpaper map; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Evocative travel diary. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. Scarce, especially in this condition.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 10819

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: africa, barbary, morocco, algeria, tunisia, libya, xan fielding, travel, exploration, xan fielding, travel, exploration, africa, corsair, country

FIELDING Xan

Corsair Country. The Diary of a Journey along the Barbary Coast. [Travel Book Club edition].

Travel Book Club,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Published a year after the first edition. Evocative travel diary. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. In common with all TBC editions, this issue omits the plates and map present in the original.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 18524

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: africa, barbary, morocco, algeria, tunisia, libya, xan fielding, travel, exploration, xan fielding, travel, exploration, africa, corsair, country

FIELDING, Xan

Corsair Country: the diary of a journey along the Barbary Coast

London, Secker & Warburg, 1958. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket First edition. Owner's inscriptions & gift inscriptions on front end paper; page fore-edge foxed; binding tight; dust jacket worn & chipped at edges with faded spine; dust jacket not price-clipped Photo:.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS175927I

FIELDING, Xan

Corsair country: the diary of a journey along the Barbary Coast

London, Secker & Warburg, 1958. Used - Acceptable. Ex lib hardback in dust jacket First edition. Ex public library - stamps, remains of labels, etc.; binding tight; dust jacket a little worn at edges; dust jacket not price-clipped. Photo:.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS181591I

FIELDING, XAN; MULLEY, CLARE (INTRO.)

Hide and Seek; The Story of a Wartime Agent

London, The Folio Society. 2014. (hardcover) Fine. xxiii, [3], 204pp. 8vo. In slipcase. Entirely unblemished; as new. Tight, bright, and clean. Illus. Maps. Endpapers illustrated with a glossary of code-names for people and places typed and annotated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Folding map in pouch at inside-rear cover; copy of a War Office map of west and central Crete, created in 1943 and reproduced in 1944, also annotated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Printed on Abbey Wove paper at L.E.G.O. and by them in cloth printed with a design by Neil Gower.

Spafford BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 122113

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: Folio Society, Second World War, World War 2, WW 2

FIELDING Xan

Hide and Seek. The Story of a War-Time Agent. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO

Secker & Warburg,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper maps in red; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. ARGUABLY THE SCARCEST OF ALL THE SOE PERSONAL MEMOIRS. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. SCARCE. Enser, p.192.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 29965

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, crete, soe, special operations executive, espionage, fielding, xan fielding

FIELDING Xan

Hide and Seek. The Story of a Wartime Agent. Introduced by Clare Mulley. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE: WITH COPIOUS ANNOTATIONS AND EXTRA LARGE MAP

Folio Society,, 2014. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 12 pages of colour and monochrome plates, a large folding coloured map and endpaper charts; pictorial olive cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Splendid and important edition of Fielding's classic account of SOE operations in Crete. The photographs are previously unpublished. THIS COPY IS COPIOUSLY AND NEATLY ANNOTATED ON FRONT AND REAR ENDPAPERS. THE ANNOTATIONS INCLUDE A FULL GLOSSARY OF PERSONS AND PLACES, AND THERE IS ALSO A LARGE FOLDING COLOURED MAP IN HAND-MADE POCKET ON REAR PASTE-DOWN.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 26132

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: folio society, military, ww2, wwii, fielding, xan fielding, crete, soe, special operations executive

FIELDING Xan

Hide and Seek. The Story of a War-Time Agent. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Secker & Warburg,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper maps in red; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy. With neat personal name stamp on front free endpaper. Arguably the scarcest of all the SOE personal memoirs. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.192.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 29973

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, crete, soe, special operations executive, espionage, fielding, xan fielding, military, espionage, pow, hide, seek

FIELDING Xan

Hide and Seek. The Story of a War-Time Agent. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Secker & Warburg,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper maps in red; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwapper, the latter chipped at head and tail. Dustwrapper artwork by Anthony Baynes. Arguably the scarcest of all the SOE personal memoirs. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.192.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 48346

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, espionage, crete, soe, special operations executive, fielding, xan fielding

FIELDING, XAN; CLAIRE MULLEY (INTRODUCTION)

Hide and Seek: The Story of a Wartime Agent

London: Folio Society, 2014. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Still stiff to open and about new, in sturdy clean green slipcase ; 204 pages. Fine .

B-Line BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 63275

Catalogue: Folio Society

FIELDING, XAN; CLAIRE MULLEY (INTRODUCTION)

Hide and Seek: The Story of a Wartime Agent

London: Folio Society, 2014. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. New book and slipcase, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. ; 204 pages. New .

B-Line BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 63276

Catalogue: Folio Society

XAN FIELDING.

Hide and Seek. The Story of a Wartime Agent

Secker & Warburg, London, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket.

Clearwater BooksProfessional seller

Book number: ARC93868

Jean Larteguy; Xan Fielding [trans.]

The Centurions

New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. 1962. First edition. Cloth. First US edition of this important French novel by Jean Larteguy, an excellent copy. First US edition of this work, preceded by the first English language edition published by Hutchinson in London in 1962. Translated by Xan Fielding. A famous French novel by Jean Larteguy [Jean Pierre Lucien Osty] following the airborne battalion during the First Indochina War, Algerian War, and Suez Crisis. Winner of the 1960 Prix Eve Delacroix. The Centurions was adapted into a film starring Anthony Quinn titled 'Lost Command.' Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with only minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 823A16

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: first editions french novels larteguy french novels None

Jean Larteguy; Xan Fielding [trans.]

The Centurions

London, Hutchinson, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Jean Larteguy's popular novel about a French airborne battalion, in the exceptionally bright original dust wrapper. The first UK edition, first impression. Initially published in France in 1960, this is the first English language edition of the work, translated by Xan Fielding. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Larteguy's novel follows a battalion through the First Indochina War, Algerian War, and Suez Crisis.The novel won the 1960 Prix Ève Delacroix, and includes the first use of the so-called "ticking time bomb" scenario.With the inscription 'To Dad, Happy Christmas, From Gloria', dated 1961, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright, with a touch of sunning to back strip. Light chipping to back strip tail, with minor chips to back strip head. Small closed tear to tail of fold of front flyleaf. Small closed tear to tail of front wrap, repaired with clear tape to reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 891F46

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: the centurions french literature Les Centurions French airborne battalion french literature None

Jean Larteguy , Xan Fielding (Translator)

The Lost command (First published as The Centurions)

GC plus. Arrow book, 1966. First Arrow edition, 1966. Originally published in English under title: The Centurions, 1961. First published in France under the tile: Les Centurions, 1960. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Small size paperback(small tear on the edge of the back cover, some creases, nicks and ink marks on the cover and spine, small pen mark on the edge of the front cover) in good condition plus. Clean pages but tainted on the outer edges, small creases, nicks and tainted on the edges of the pages, small foxing marks inside the edges of the front and back cover. The book is in good condition for its age with some shelf wear. 448pp including Author's note. A collectable and scarce book. Good.

Alpha 2 Omega BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 7301

Catalogue: History