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Patrick Leigh Fermor (Paddy Femor) | First Editions
1915 - 2011
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011), also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar and soldier who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War. He was widely regarded as Britain's greatest living travel writer during his lifetime, based on books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once described Fermor (in perhaps the most flattering terms one can hope for) as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene."
Fermor had a long and decorated career, winning awards such as: the Heinemann Foundation Prize for Literature for The Traveller's Tree (1950), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers.
(2004), and was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1991. The Patrick Leigh Fermor Society was formed in 2014.
See below our stock of Patrick Leigh Fermor First Editions and signed copies.
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Between The Woods and The Water. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.
London: John Murray, 1986. [European Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 248 [2]. With a map printed on turquoise paper. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket by John..... More
The Broken Road. From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos.
London: John Murray, 2013. [Travel Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxi; 362. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and red illustrated endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket by Ed Kluz, priced at £25. A touch of minor handling; essentially a fine copy. A posthumous publication..... More
The Violins of Saint Jacques. A Tale of the Antilles.
London: John Murray and Andre Deutsch, 1977. [Modern fiction] FOURTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.139;[1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, endpapers illustrated with maps, pictorial dust-wrapper price clipped. Inscription of owner's name to front flypaper. Spotting to textblock top edge, slight wear to spine edges, minor..... More
The Traveller's Tree. A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1950]. [West Indies and Caribbean Travel] American edition, using the British sheets (no edition stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 403 [1]. With an illustrated frontispiece and 48 black and white photographic plates by A. Costa, as well as a sketch-map by H.W. Hawes. Publisher's..... More
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