Edited by artemis cooper (7 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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 (illustrator).…

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

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.…

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.

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).…