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A Time to Keep Silence (1953 1st ed Queen Anne hardback, #127 of 500)
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
$382.48$305.99
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About This Item
Queen Anne Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. ~~Withdrawn Ex-Library~~Good 1953 true 1st printing 1st ed Queen Anne hardback, limited to 500 copies of which this is #127. Some library wear and patches of surface rubbing to edges of boards, with number to base of spine, library log-sheet and pouch to fly-leaf and inside front cover, library stamp to copyright page, corners bumped else tight and otherwise unmarked. Beautiful high quality production, bound in black buckram and printed on Millbourn hand made paper, a superb study by Fermor. Good tight copy in secure binding, well-preserved red leather title insert to spine, pages crisp with beautiful colour frontispiece. More by this author available Sent Airmail at no extra cost; Worldwide Shipping IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Religion & Theology; The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 076054..
Synopsis
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania, and fought in Greece and Crete. He was awarded the DSO and OBE. He lived partly in Greece—in the house he designed with his wife, Joan, in an olive grove in the Mani—and partly in Worcestershire. He was knighted in 2004 for his services to literature and to British–Greek relations. Karen Armstrong , a historian of religion, spent seven years in a Roman Catholic religious order; she has written about this experience in Through the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase . She is also the author of many books, including A History of God , The Great Transformation , and, most recently, The Bible: A Biography.
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- Seller
- 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 076054
- Title
- A Time to Keep Silence (1953 1st ed Queen Anne hardback, #127 of 500)
- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Queen Anne Press
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- BZDB14 Religion & Theology; A Time to Keep Silence 1953 1st ed Queen Anne hardback 127 of 500 Patrick Leigh Fermor
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