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The Traveller's Tree - SIGNED and with the rare wrap-around band

The Traveller's Tree - SIGNED and with the rare wrap-around band

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The Traveller's Tree - SIGNED and with the rare wrap-around band

by Fermor, Patrick Leigh

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
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About This Item

John Murray, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine. A first edition, first printing published by John Murray in 1950. A near fine book without inscriptions with some foxing to the page edges, seeping a little into the pages. In a very good+ clipped wrapper which has a nick to the head of the spine and some wear to the spine tips and corners. SIGNED by way of a bookplate to the front pastedown. One or two nicks here and there. Complete with the rare original wrap-around band declaring the book to be the "Winner of The Heinemann Foundation Prize." Scarce with the band.

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. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a doctoral student in geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written for The Guardian , The Believer , The Nation , Foreign Policy , and The New York Review of Books , among other publications.

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Bookseller
John Atkinson Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
9517
Title
The Traveller's Tree - SIGNED and with the rare wrap-around band
Author
Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
John Murray
Date Published
1950

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