Edited by artemis cooper (16 risultati)

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch. Slight foxing to top edge. Slight wear to edges of D/J. Repair to top edge of D/J. Evelyn Waugh, the wittiest novelist of his generation, and Lady Diana Cooper, the indestructible beauty of her, wrote to each other for over thirty years. Each was a prolific correspondent in an age when writing letters was a daily pleasure. Until recently it was thought that Waugh's letters to Lady Diana were irretrievably lost. The, twenty years after Waugh's death in 1966, they resurfaced in somewhat mysterious circumstances. Now, for the first time, it is possible to read both sides of this enthralling correspondence. Illustrated. 344 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Illus. With Photos (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: New. First Pbk.Ed. "Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 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 wherever he went an to develop his extraordinary sense of the continuity of history : a quality that deepens and colours of every place that he writes about , from the parks of the Pyrenees to the cell fo a Trappist Monastery. Its infectious enthusiasm is driven by an insatiable curiosity and an omnivorous mind - all inspired by a passion for words and language that makes hom one of the greatest prose writers of his generation" A wonderful anthology of extracts from his books, book reviews and essays .274p. Edited By Artemis Cooper (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1991 near fine hardback, page margins lightly browned, in a near fine dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed. No inscription. Not price clipped. 344 pages with index. Illustrations. Bibliography. Illus. With Photos (illustratore). …

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Blue printed wrappers. Publicity Director's business card stapled on front wrapper, faint foxing on page edges, very good.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. First edition first printing hardback, 2003, with unclipped jacket. In overall near-fined used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed (now protected): boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; light tanning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, fourth impression with '4' on copyright page, a tribute to the book's popularity. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, very slight lean, not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 362pp. 'A Time of Gifts' and 'Between the Woods and the Water' were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans, but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remained unfinished but 'The Broken Road', edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper, Leigh Fermor's literary executors, completes an extraordinary journey. Patrick Leigh Fermor was widely regarded as 'Britain's greatest living travel writer' during his lifetime, A BBC journalist once described him as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.' During the war, working for SOE, he achieved lasting fame for his kidnapping, with Stanley Moss, of Nazi General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete. Jacket by Ed Kluz (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, old coffee splash affecting page fore edges, corners very slightly rubbed. Not price clipped (£12.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg ++ copy for its age. 332pp, illustrated, genealogical endpapers. A biography, through their letters to each other, of Lady Diana Cooper, youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Rutland, and her diplomat husband Duff Cooper, by their grand daughter Artemis Cooper. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, described many years later in "A Time of Gifts" and "Between the Woods and the Water". 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: a quality that deepens the colours of every place he writes about, from the peaks of the Pyrenees to the cell of a Trappist monastery. His experiences in wartime Crete sealed the deep affection he had already developed for Greece, a country whose character and customs he celebrates in two books, "Mani" and "Roumeli", and where he has lived for over forty years. Whether he is drawing portraits in Vienna or sketching Byron's slippers in Missolonghi, the Leigh Fermor touch is unmistakable. Its infectious enthusiasm is driven by an insatiable curiosity and an omnivorous mind - all inspired by a passion for words and language that makes him one of the greatest prose writers of his generation. Ref AA 3.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. With a full number line starting with1.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy in a very good price clipped DJ. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor to sticker bookplate affixed to title page. Block edge lightly tanned. Signed by Author(s).

Ticknor and Fields, New York. 1992. First edition, US. Hardback with DW. Illustrated. Wrapper sunned to spine and very slightly worn at extremities o/w a clean and fresh copy.

8vo. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. xix + [3] maps + 362 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Illustrated by photograph of author, and by 4 maps. Decorated by title page and head and tailpiece vignettes. Red patterned endpapers. The final part of the pre-war walk of Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) covers the section from the Iron Gates in Romania to Mount Athos in Greece. In the early 1930s the author had set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople and the journey as far as the Iron Gates was described in A Time of Gifts (1977) and Between the Woods and the Water (1986). The Broken Road brings together two texts left by Leigh Fermor; the first written in the 1960s describes his travels through Romania and Bulgaria to Northern Greece, the second is his only surviving diary, describing his stay in Mount Athos. The book is edited by his two literary executors. Third reprint of the first edition. TRAVEL EUROPE TRAVEL DIARIES EASTERN EUROPE 20TH CENTURY TRAVEL.…

1st edition. Hardcover. Fine black cloth with silver spine lettering, very clean pages and illustrated endpapers, in a very fine dustjacket, not price-clipped. This was the third and concluding volume recounting Leigh Fermor's remarkable journey on foot across Europe, aged only 18 in 1933, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. The book was compiled by his literary executors from texts the author was working on when he died, and is signed by one of them, Artemis Cooper. Superb copy.…

1st edition. Hardcover. Fine blue cloth with silver spine lettering, very clean endpapers and pages, in a fine, unclipped dustjacket. Signed by Leigh Fermor on the title page. Edited by Artemis Cooper, who has brought together 'the most delightful and evocative pieces from his books, journalism and letters'. In the words of Colin Thubron, one of Leigh Fermor's literary executors, he 'stands beside Robert Byron as the finest travel writer of his generation'.…

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).…

Signed first edition bound in black cloth with original blue jacket, both near fine. Signed on the author's stork label tipped onto the title page of this late collection of Patrick Leigh Fermor's writings, including his great war report: 'Abducting a General'. 274 pp. In addition to excerpts from 'A Time of Gifts' and Leigh Fermor's other works, his account of the kidnap of General Kreipe includes one of the most sublime pieces of all wartime writing, as the fleeing group wake 'among the rocks, just 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/ Soracte.' I was in luck. It is the opening line of one of the few odes of Horace I know by heart. I went on reciting where he had broken off. The General's blue eyes swivelled away from the mountain-top to mine. 'Ach so Herr Mayor!' It was very strange. 'Ja, Herr General.' As though for a long 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.' A lovely copy. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…