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Fermor, Patrick Leigh
The Traveller's Tree
Publisher: John Murray, London;
Date of Publication: 1950
Stock Code: 4476
FIRST EDITION. Large octavo. xi, [1], 403 pp. Frontispiece drawing by A Costa, double-page map to blue paper and 48 black-and-white photographic plates by Costa in section to rear, captioned to verso and some with two images per plate. Book condition: Very Good. Jacket condition: Very Good. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to spine in pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth bright with very minor rubbing to edge; very light foxing/toning top edge only. Contents clean and crisp; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket price-clipped with 1-inch closed tear at lower rear joint and minor nicks, chips & creases top edge. Classic account of travels through the West Indies and the very different civilisations encountered on the journey. Leigh Fermor is widely regarded as one of the finest travel writers of his generation, once described by a BBC journalist as a “cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene”. First Edition of the Author’s first book. Sold