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Between the Woods and the Water (First edition, first printing)
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0719542642
- ISBN 13
- 9780719542640
- Seller
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Newhaven, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Murray, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Remains of erased pencil inscription to upper part of flyleaf, contents otherwise clean and unmarked, small brown mark to lower closed text block; rubbing to spine ends and corners of jacket, 2" long shallow indent to rear, sufrace markings, creasing to edges. Between the Woods and the Water' continues Patrick Leigh Fermor's celebrated epic account of his journey at the age of eighteen, in 1933, from the Hook of HolLand to Constantinople. Here he travels down the Danube from Budapest, across the Great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania. 248 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; ISBN/EAN: 9780719542640. Inventory No: dscf10990. . 9780719542640
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- Bookseller
- Denton Island Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- dscf10990
- Title
- Between the Woods and the Water (First edition, first printing)
- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0719542642
- ISBN 13
- 9780719542640
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- BZDB229 Travel & Places; Between the Woods and the Water First edition first printing Patrick Leigh Fermor
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- Rubbing
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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