A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and The Broken Road - Patrick Leigh-Fermor First Editions Signed
Complete Trilogy, First Editions, Signed
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh. A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and The Broken Road. London: John Murray, 1977, 1986, 2013.
All first editions, signed. A Time of Gifts signed by the author on publisher’s slip pasted to the title-page; Between the Woods and the Water signed by the author to title-page; The Broken Road, published posthumously, signed by the editors, Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron.
Complete in 3 volumes (pp. 291; 248; xxi, 362; b/w portrait frontis, maps). 8vo, original cloth. Elusive errata slips for the first two volumes loosely inserted. A fine set in dust-jackets (minor fading to spines). First two volumes with jacket design by John Craxton (1922-2009), third volume with jacket design by Ed Kluz in the style of Craxton.
One of twentieth-century classics, this trilogy chronicles the author’s youthful adventures during his epic trans-European walk in the 1930s. Highlights include unforgettable descriptions of Germany, Vienna, and Transylvania before the Second World War and the fall of the Iron Curtain. A cross between Byron, Indiana Jones, and James Bond, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a wartime SOE officer, and one of the finest and most fascinating writers in British letters.