FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.

£400 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A Time of Gifts. First edition of the first work in Fermor's travel trilogy. Part antiquarian pilgrimage, part adolescent coming-of-age adventure, this book details the first part of Fermor's journey, as far as Hungary. The full account of his walk from Holland to Constantinople was an immediate best-seller, which established him as "one of the greatest travel writers of the twentieth century" (ODNB). The dust jacket is designed by John Craxton, "one of the leading exponents of Neo-Romanticism" (Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists).

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