Product Description
First edition of each volume of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travelogue trilogy.
First two books signed by the author on the title page; posthumously published third book signed by its editors, travel writers Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron.
[viii], 291; 248; xxi, [1], 362 pp.
Bound in publisher's black or blue cloth-affect paper-covered boards stamped in gilt.
Third volume Fine in Fine dust jacket.
First two volumes Near Fine with soft crease to each spine and light foxing to textblock edges and endpapers, small dampstain to A Time of Gifts front endpapers.
In Near Fine unclipped dust jackets with light wear and rubbing to each and light foxing to A Time of Gifts jacket.
A very pretty set, with colorful illustrated jackets by John Craxton and Ed Kluz.
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor chose to go on a walking tour of Europe rather than go to university.
In December 1933 the eighteen-year-old set out from the Hook of Holland and started making his way to Istanbul.
His journey lasted a year, and it took him another forty to publish the first book of his three-volume memoir, a delay he attributed to "laziness and timidity.
" The second book was published nine years after the first, and the third in 2013, two years after the author's death.
The result is a beautifully written travelogue that combines the enthusiasm of youth with the mature reflections of age.
The rest of Leigh Fermor's adulthood was as rich with experience as its beginning, encompassing a romance with a Romanian princess, the daring capture of a German general during the Second World War, and world travel.
The beautiful house he shared with his wife Joan is now part of the Benaki museum in Greece.
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