John Craxton (89 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

paperback. Condition: Like New. May have light shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Craxton, John (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Craxton, John (illustrator). Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Craxton, John (illustrator). Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Craxton, John (illustrator). Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. John Craxton (illustrator). The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. John Craxton (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Craxton, John (illustrator). UK paperback reprint, 1984 Penguin. The book is in fine condition. No creasing to the spine.

Condition: Good. John Craxton (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. John Craxton (illustrator). Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (John Murray Travel Classics) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. John Craxton (illustrator). This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. John Craxton (illustrator). New edition. Faint yellowing to page edges; binding tight & square Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: Good. Craxton, John (illustrator). Pages tanned but appears to have hardly been read.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Craxton (illustrator). John Murray Travel Classics. 320 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket and vignettes by John Craxton (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine faded, not price clipped (£10.95, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 118pp. A compilation of letters describing the experiences of six explorers as they travelled across Peru, recalling the day to day unravelling of their progress. The expedition team included the renowned travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), a Swiss international skier, a jeweller, the botany loving Duke of Devonshire and a social anthropologist.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. First edition hardcover in good condition, no dust jacket. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Rear board is scratched. Page block is tanned and foxed. Faint foxing also on the pastedowns and endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by John Craxton (illustrator). Book Club Edition. First published by John Murray in 1977, this is a Book Club edition of 1987. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of fab bright jacket by John Craxton and spine, top corners slightly rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks almost unread. 291pp. Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (1915- 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. At the age of 18, Paddy decided to walk the length of Europe, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. He set off in December 1933, shortly after Hitler had come to power in Germany, with a few clothes, several letters of introduction, the Oxford Book of English Verse and a volume of Horace's Odes. He slept in barns and shepherds' huts, but also was invited by landed gentry and aristocracy into the country houses of Central Europe. He experienced hospitality in many monasteries along the way. He finally arrived in Constantinople in January 1935. Patrick Leigh Fermor was widely regarded as 'Britain's greatest living travel writer' during his lifetime, A BBC journalist once described him as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene.' During the war, working for SOE, he achieved lasting fame for his kidnapping, with Stanley Moss, of Nazi General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Lucian Freud and John Craxton [Paintings] (illustrator). First Edition. 1947 Vol. XVI, No. 95 - November MCMXLVII. With monochrome reproductions of paintings by Lucian Freud and John Craxton. ***Very good in brown printed cream wrappers. Covers somewhat discoloured with age and handling, with a couple of small stains on the front cover. Fragile spine intact. Contents very good. 215mm x 140mm. 70 pages [pp.227-297], plus four pages of period adverts. ***A post-war issue of this literary journal, published by Cyril Connolly as editor, and Stephen Spender as associate editor. This issue includes the following contributions: 'After the Atom' by Franz Borkenau, 'The Fate of Modern Painting' by Herbert Read, 'Mother's Sense of Fun' by Angus Wilson, 'Studies in Genius - III: Swinburne and 'Le Vice Anglais'' by Humphrey Hare and 'Stravinsky - Latter-day Symphonist' by Eric Walter White. ***'Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was a literary magazine published every four weeks in London, between December 1939 and January 1950. The magazine was edited by Cyril Connolly, who made it into a platform for a wide range of distinguished and emerging writers. It had a print run of 120 issues. The magazine had a small circulation of around 9,500, but an impressive list of contributors, and it made a significant impact on the arts during and just after the war.' [Wiki] ***A post-war issue of this magazine in nice condition. Includes first publication of 'Mother's Sense of Fun', a short story by Angus Wilson, two years before the publication of his first collection of short stories 'The Wrong Set', which was published by Secker & Warburg in 1949. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Craxton, John; and Eyres Monsell, Joan (illustrator). 1st Edition. Publisher's original green cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. Prior owner's name and date "August, 1959" to fep. Frontispiece and title page illustration by John Croxton. Photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell. No jacket.

John Craxton (illustrator). Three Letters From The Andes, Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Murray, 1991, First Edition First Impression Often lauded as the greatest travel writer of the twentieth century, Three Letters From The Andes was printed twenty years after six friends set out to do some climbing in Peru. The book is pretty much the content of three lengthy letters to his wife at home in Greece and form a travelogue of the experience. There is a neat personal dedication and date to the front end paper. The book is in fine condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. There is a small crease to the top corner of the front board. The end papers and page are free from marks and tears. The unclipped dust jacket is in very good condition with nibbling to the top edge of the front cover and faint marks to the back cover. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and a cardboard box.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. John Craxton (illustrator). 1st Edition. First impression. Uninscribed in as new dust jacket i.e. not price clipped, not faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. JOHN CRAXTON (COVER ART) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Navy Blue boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and birds in flight to front, 220 x 145 mm approx. 248 pp. Double page line map on pale green paper stock. First Edition 1st printing 1986 of the author's Thomas Cook travel writing winning book and sequel to his travel autobiography "A Time of Gifts". Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Very Good (Book - no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- spine sunned and price clipped, negligible shelf rubbing or soiling - in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket).

Soft cover. Condition: New. John Craxton (illustrator). First Thus. This new, seemingly unread copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe. Bad communications only heightening the remoteness, this Greece - south of ancient Sparta - is one that maintains perhaps a stronger relationship with the ancient past than with the present. Myth becomes history, and vice versa. Leigh Fermor's hallmark descriptive writing and capture of unexpected detail have made this book, first published in 1958, a classic. Ref A5 7.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Craxton (Dust-jacket and Frontispiece by); Joan Monsell (Photographs by) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book bound in red cloth with gilt decoration on the front, gilt title on the spine which is lightly sunned, clean and bright and square. Hinge and text block firm, no spotting or foxing, no inscriptions or markings. Striking frontispiece by John Craxton and photos by Joan Monsell throughout.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Small Qto., Unpaginated, approx 30 pages, colour illustrated. A Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Craxton, John (illustrator). First Edition. Bound in perfect blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, this 1991 hardcover First Edition is FINE in FINE wrapper (unclipped). (X)/118pp with Note, 3 Letters, Index and drawings by John Craxton. Tiny inscrition to FFEP; i.e "June 1992. SG". Otherwise all FINE.