Published by John Murray Publishers, 2004
ISBN 10: 071956106X ISBN 13: 9780719561061
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5.
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Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719561051 ISBN 13: 9780719561054
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Published by Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2014
ISBN 10: 1629142239 ISBN 13: 9781629142234
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Published by John Murray, 2003
Seller: STEVE BROWN, Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover.
Published by Murray Cards (International) Ltd, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719561051 ISBN 13: 9780719561054
Seller: Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: 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!.
Published by John Murray, 2003. 0719561051, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719561051 ISBN 13: 9780719561054
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
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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).
Published by John Murray, London, 2003
Seller: Plane Tree Books, Taupo, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 274pp - blue cloth - content edges lightly tanned - dustwrapper edges slightly bumped - price-clipped.
Published by John Murray (Publishers)/Hodder Headline, London,, 2003
Seller: 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.
Published by John Murray, Uk, 2003
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 274 pages. nice clean copy.
Published by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd, London, 2003
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 9 preliminary pages, 274 pages, near fine with dust-wrapper. top and bottom of spine bumped, top edge of wrapper slightly creased.
Published by John Murray, London, 2003
Seller: BookSmith, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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).
Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Buone Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture.
Publication Date: 2003
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. 274pp John Murray, London 2003. 1st edition. Very good copy in very good dust jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. ix, 274pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. The top edge very slightly soiled, and with some toning to the leaf margins as invariably seems to be the base. Very good indeed in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A selection of thirty-nine essays and articles, roughly half of them culled from journals and periodicals and hitherto unprinted in book-form.
Published by John Murray London 2004, 2004
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
reprint stiff wrappers As New octavo ix + 274pp., b/w plate, Tales from a Lifetime of Travel.
Published by John Murray. First English edition, London, 2003
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Collects thirty-nine pieces, a combination of extracts from his books, introductions to those of others and pieces originally in journals; subjects include: a cave on the Black Sea, sash opening windows, cold sores, early reading and desert island books and notes on Spain in a letter to Diana Cooper; edited by Artemis Cooper, 274pp. Fine in dustwrapper. book.
2003 1ST FINE /FINE.
Published by John Murray London 2003, 2003
Seller: 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'.
Published by London: John Murray, 2003, 2003
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[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.
2003 1ST FINE /FINE.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Words of Mercury, Patrick Leigh Fermor. Ed. Artemis Cooper. 2003. London: John Murray. 8vo. First edition, first printing of this collection of evocative pieces from books, journalism and letters by PLF. Signed by PLF via a bookplate affixed to the title page. An about fine book with a very, very minor reading lean, in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Words of Mercury, Patrick Leigh Fermor. Ed. Artemis Cooper. 2003. London: John Murray. 8vo. First edition, first printing of this collection of evocative pieces from books, journalism and letters by PLF. Signed by PLF on the title page, with his usual rule-out of his printed name. A near fine book, ink ownership inscription of Elizabeth Tarn to front endpaper, else fine, in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).
Published by John Murray, London, 2003
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Early printing of this collection of essays by Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designed by Octavius Murray. Edited by Artemis Cooper. Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 years old when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. It was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages, and where he developed his extraordinary sense of the continuity of history. Whether he is drawing portraits in Vienna or sketching Byron's slippers in Missolonghi, his touch in unmistakable. Its infectious enthusiasm is driven by an insatiable curiosity and an omnivorous mindall inspired by a passion for words and language. "He makes exotic and entertaining friends wherever he goes, has read everything, been everywhere and writes like a dream" (Times).