Three Letters from the Andes [Signed]
by FERMOR, Patrick Leigh (1915-2011)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine-
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing, with drawings and illustrated dust jacket by John Craxton. 8vo: [10],118pp, with four black and white illustrations and a map of Peru. Publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, jacket priced £10.95. Signed by the author to front fly-leaf. Fine, tight and unread; about Fine jacket (faint smudge to back panel). In 1971, Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a sojourn into the high Andes of Peru, from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa, and finally back to Lima. The expedition, led by a writer and poet, included a Swiss international skier and jeweler, a social anthropologist from Provence, and a Nottinghamshire farming squire—all seasoned mountaineers. The other two participants—Leigh Fermor and a botany-loving duke—were novices. As the group traveled into increasingly remote regions, Leigh Fermor recorded his experiences in this series of letters to his wife, Joan. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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- Bookseller
- Fine Editions Ltd (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BB1426
- Title
- Three Letters from the Andes [Signed]
- Author
- FERMOR, Patrick Leigh (1915-2011)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Natural history. Botany—Poetry—Early works to 1800.
- Bookseller catalogs
- MODERN FIRSTS;
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